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Strategy implementation in 2018
We are consistently implementing the planned strategic activities having impact on achievement of our financial objectives and maximisation of the Group's value.
One of the strategy’s key assumptions is to implement processes based on the development of core business. The most profitable projects and strategic projects within the core business were given priority in 2018:
- development of mining activities,
- modernisation and optimisation of coking segment operations,
- ensuring energy self-sufficiency by developing generation capacities based on own resource base – coal mining by-products (methane) and coke production (coke oven gas),
- improving the Group’s profitability and integrating operating segments,
- implementing innovative technologies,
- increasing the efficiency of core and supporting activities.
Key initiatives supporting the strategic objectives in 2018 included:
In the coal segment:
- Construction of level 1120 at KWK Borynia-Zofiówka-Jastrzębie Ruch Borynia.
- Construction of level 1080 at KWK Borynia-Zofiówka-Jastrzębie Ruch Zofiówka.
- Access and industrial development of hard coal resources within the following deposits: Bzie-Dębina 2-Zachód and Bzie-Dębina 1 – Zachód (KWK Borynia-Zofiówka-Jastrzębie Ruch Zofiówka).
- Construction of level 1290 at KWK Budryk.
- Construction of level 1050 at KWK Knurów-Szczygłowice Ruchu Knurów.
- Construction of level 1050 at KWK Knurów-Szczygłowice Ruchu Szczygłowice.
- Increase in depth of shaft II with extension of shaft hoisting system at KWK Knurów-Szczygłowice Ruchu Szczygłowice.
- Expansion of level 1000 with increase in depth of shafts IV and III at KWK Pniówek.
In the coke segment:
- Modernisation of coking battery no. 4 at Koksownia Przyjaźń.
- Construction of coke oven gas desulphurisation system at Koksownia Jadwiga.
- Construction of electricity generation unit at Koksownia Radlin.
In other segments:
- Modernisation of coking battery no. 4 at Koksownia Przyjaźń.
- Construction of coke oven gas desulphurisation system at Koksownia Jadwiga.
- Construction of electricity generation unit at Koksownia Radlin.
The Group is also implementing or analysing technical and organisational solutions intended to improve work productivity.
The key activities include:
- Purchase of equipment to improve efficiency of preparatory work to expand tunnel-type workings, reduce labour intensity and ensure savings on material costs.
- Implementation of a research project intended to increase the use of mechanical lining and bolting in roadways and increase progress in longwall workings by ensuring the right sizes of near-wall workings.
- Pilot implementation of technology for autonomous bolt frames using a Bolt Miner.
- Implementation of subsequent projects related to improvements in underground transport efficiency, intended to increase the productive work time for longwall miners by increasing human and material transport capacity and reducing costs by unification and use of modern solutions.
- Implementation of a central server for technological data, which consistently and unequivocally delivers information on results in specific key cells in production systems.
- Implementation of a project consisting of monitoring operational parameters of machinery and equipment related to improving the availability and maintenance of key machines responsible for production processes.