Company profile
PROMET FOUNDRY a.s. is focusing on production and sale of grey cast iron castings and ductile cast iron castings, but also manufacturing of model equipment create. Both the domestic and the European markets including the Germany, Sweden or Switzerland are supplied with our castings of total yearly capacity of 8000 tons per year.
The company PROMET FOUNDRY takes advantage of information and strong financial background of the parent company PROMET GROUP a.s. which enables the foundry to innovate the equipment and production as well as offer wider portfolio of services supplied from sister companies.
History of company
History of foundry industry in Vsetín ranges as far as to the 19th century. In this time a grey cast iron foundry was founded by company THONET. In the year 1922 the Thonet foundry is taken over by Josef Sousedík, the producer of electric machines. After the year 1945 the foundry was incorporated in the national enterprise MEZ Vsetín within the concern ZSE Praha. The castings were produced not only for the use of own enterprise, but also for the use of the different companies within the Czech Republic. After the year 1989 the national enterprise MEZ Vsetín becomes independent, which led to solid expansion of the manufacturing programme and gaining of new customers. For this purpose a new technology of casting production Lost Foam was bought. The new technology was delivered from the USA and it was the only one and exclusive in the Czech Republic as well as in Europe.
Within the privatization the foundry management submitted the competitive privatization project, in which the foundry privatization was accomplished by the form of direct sale. The company „Slévárna Vsetín spol. s r.o.“ was founded on 8 March 1994 and the foundry holding and assets were bought to 1 January 1996. A fully automated shaping line for the production of small and medium size castings from the cast iron and ductile cast iron was bought from the Italian company FOUNDRY AUTOMATION in the year 1997. Furthermore the continuous cleaning unit Škoda was installed as well as the new processing equipment for the production of cores and the gas heating of the foundry.
For the subsequent company development the foundry holders decided to find a strategic partner, who would further modernize the manufacture and would participate in operating the business together with the current owners. Company PROCENTO, spol. s r.o. became this partner. For the purpose of stabilization of purchase and sale this activity was concentrated under the business management of PROCENTO-METALURGIE spol. s r.o. Since January 2000 the supply and sale of Slévárny Vsetín spol. s.r.o. are carried out by means of the company PROCENTO-METALURGIE spol. s r.o.
In February 2004 the company PROCENTO-METALURGIE spol. s r.o. took over Slévárny Vsetín spol. s r.o. in full extent.
The strategy taken by the new owner was a massive investment activity within the modernization of the foundry plant in order to fulfil the high expectations and demand of our customers In September 2005 the company changed its name into PROMET FOUNDRY s.r.o., which meant the integration to the group of companies PROMET also according to its name. A new company under the name PROMET FOUNDRY a.s. was founded after a transformation of the company PROMET FOUNDRY s.r.o. into a joint-stock company in the year 2007.