Company profile

OKD, a. s. is a part of the netherland industrial group New World Resources N. V. OKD is one of the largest private employers in the Czech Republic. It is active in northern Moravia. The basis of OKD’s activities is exploitation of high-quality hard coal with low sulphur content (less than 1 %). It is used mainly in the power and metallurgical industries.

 

Our key bases

Coal is often associated with the outdated orientation of the economy towards heavy industry, obsolete practices and environmental burden. In fact, already these days there is growing demand for high-quality coal relevant to metallurgy due to high demand for metal and other raw materials in the quickly developing Asian economies. Its role in the world economy will be increasingly more significant with the dwindling reserves of oil and natural gas and with the development of high-quality liquid and gaseous fuels produced from coal.

 

We are not only producers

Mining, processing and sale of coal is the main, however not the only mission of the OKD company. One of the biggest private employers in the Czech Republic and one of the largest economic entities in the region the company has a significant impact on the landscape, the environment, employment as well as the everyday lives of the region’s inhabitants. The main motives behind the activities of OKD are responsibility, prosperity, stability a progresiveness. This effort is also reflected in the company code of ethics OKD.