Company description
The company's history dates back to 1948 - the year a subsidiary plant was founded within South Bohemian Power (JCE), intended as an auxiliary and manufacturing plant for simple steel tower structures.
By splitting off this plant from JCE, an independent enterprise called Power Industry Machinery (Energetické strojírny) came into being in 1952, manufacturing steel lattice towers, transformer stations, substation structures and providingg electric motor repairs. This national enterprise was dissolved in 1962 and became a subsidiary plant of Energovod Praha - later incorporated into the group of companies know as Czech Power Industry Enterprises (Ceské energetické závody). During that time the enterprise began to play the role of a machinery was improved and its production range broadened to include, in particular, machinery such as switchtboards, arrow short-circuiting devices and elektrostatic precipitators for power industry plants.
The greatest expansion at that time was in the manufacture of quenching chokes in cooperation with the Power Industry Research Institute and based on the common decision of the former COMECON (RVHP) countries that the required choke production for high voltage and very high voltage networks should be covered exclusively by the enterprise in Ceské Budejovice. In the period from 1954 to 1989 this company manufactured about 3500 choke coils.
In the seventies, apart from cooperation with Energovod Praha in the sphere of tower structures, another production and assembly program was begun - bus ducts and unsulated conductors intended for power plant generator power outlets and home consumption distribution systems.
Following the sweeping social changes in Eastern Europe from 1989 and 1990 and the disintegration of the East European market and economic system, the company became an independent unit called Energetik which had to find a new position under completely changed circumstances. The new top management agreed upon and realized a strategy for the future expansion of the firm, and in 1992 it bought this enterprise from the Czech state witihin the privatization process.
Today EGE Company Ltd. continues in its tradition of production mainly for the power industry, albeit in a new world of quality demands and business practices. It has not only maintained its market position but even expanded, and has introduced intirely new production and business activities which are presented in the following chapters.
In the course of the years which followed the EGE Ltd. Company pursued the way of its tradition based on the range of products intended particularly for power engineering sector, but using a completely new quality and trading dimension. The company has succeeded not only to maintain its original market segments, but even to expand. Successful establishing of new international business relations and acquiring reputation of a reliable and flexible supplier helped to stabilise the Company's position on markets abroad.
To be capable to offer to customers not only the firm's plant capacity but complete products and services, new manufacturing and trading activities have been introduced. Newly founded subsidiary firms substantially widened the range of activities such as planning, erecting and trading services which contributed significantly to strengthen its position among power engineering sector suppliers. Other activities arisen during recent years which acquired good acceptance on the market include the manufacturing and delivery of refrigerating technology and bar equipment as well as enlargement of steel structure assortment by production shops or cableways steel structures.
The Holding Pattern, sufficient independence and excellent co-operation between particular subsidiary firms and independent divisions of the parent company, modern principles of the present organisation and management of the whole company present the best qualification for stability and further successful development of the whole EGE Company.