Company description
Founding in Lebork begun after World War II with the appearance of Rezmer - Knoll - Haneczkowski "Zeliwo" Company that was later taken over by "Zeliwiak", Labour Cooperative in Gdansk.
On July 1 of 1950 there emerged a Karol Swierczewski Working Class cooperative in Lebork founded on the basis of "Zeliwiak". In 1979 the cooperative was named 'SPOMEL' a cast iron and non-ferrous metals foundry. In 1977 the company moved to a new, well equipped building in 15 Abrahama Street. The volume of production raised systematically from 41 tons in the year of the company foundation up to1755 tons in 1970.
In 1990 the production raised up to 3400 tons and in 2001 reached 9000 tons. At present the foundry specializes in the production of:
- Brake blocks out of phosphorous cast iron for rolling stock,
- Castings for sewage systems
- Farm-machine castings
- Weights for washing machines and elevators
- Machinery and furnace castings.
- Aluminum alloy castings AK-9 and AK-11.
We have been awarded the ISO 9001:2000 CERTFICATE in December 2003. High product quality is guaranteed by a qualified staff and continuously modernized cast iron equipment in the foundry.
Melting shop is equipped with cupolas with dia 800 with a hot blast and oxygenation. The furnace control and monitoring is performed by a modern apparatus.
Cores are made on core shooter with 'Hot-Box' method and manually.
Fettling is done through barrel rolling, shot peening and grinding.
Painting - grounding of castings is done through dipping in priming and bituminous paints.
In an aluminum foundry a batch immersion is done in tube furnaces of Sklenar type. The company performs a metal vacuous refining . A liquid metal is kept in crucible furnaces PET.
We are Member of the Foundry Commerce Chamber