The project is the result of research and development program "Clean air for the region," whose participants are: Polski Koks SA, JSW, Silesian University of Technology, Institute for Chemical Processing of Coal and also Kotlarski Association.
The briquettes manufactured in the plant, designed for municipal heating and private houses are produced on the basis of flotokoncentrate coming from Krupiński mine. So far due to emissions of large amounts of harmful substances in the combustion process, this fuel was intended only for power plants. - This is a great day for Polski Koks company and a great day for the JSW Capital Group. We meet at the opening of the plant, which is an innovative project combining economy and ecology. It is the success for the province in hard times for coal when some councilors suggest the exclusion of this fuel - said during the opening ceremony Wacław Będkowski, president of Polski Koks.
-We are proud of investment prepared together with a group of scientists and the Provincial Fund for Environmental Protection, which granted us the loan. This is our voice in the discussion on environmental pollution and low emissions. We are convinced that you cannot eliminate carbon from the economy, but we need to eliminate the negative effects of its combustion - said Jarosław Zagórowski, CEO of JSW.
The ceremony was attended, among others by Tomasz Tomczykiewicz , Deputy Minister of Economy, Andrzej Pilot, Deputy Governor of Silesia, Gabriel Lenartowicz, president of the Regional Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, prof. Andrzej Karbownik, Rector of Silesian University of Technology, and Professor Marek Ściążko of the Institute for Chemical Processing of Coal.
Fuel produced at the new plant will replace flotokoncentrate that burned in the traditional way was the source of life-threatening pollution. The use of new fuel in the boiler with automatic feeding of fuel will reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, dust and highly carcinogenic benzopyrene by more than 90 percent. Details concerning the product and places of trade can be found at www.varmo.com.pl