The Service Centre BU

BU Service Centre (BU SC) was established on 1 July 2008 with the aim to centralise surface activities of mining BUs outside of processing units and selected stationary machinery. This enabled the mining BUs to focus on mining activities to a greater extent.

Contact

Orlová – Lazy 605

post code 735 12

The centralisation of surface activities covers primarily machinery and electro repairs aimed at gradual specialisation in individual areas. Surface services operation forms another area. An independent part of BU SC forms technical operation of the former BU Material Supplies, i.e. warehouse management operation, Pila Salma, Flotalex – manufacturing plant for flotation agents and anti-freezing mixtures for coal processing facilities, HKO – operation of metal waste management and operation of internal transport.

This part, with 156 employees including administration staff, was the first to be integrated in BU SC as of 1 July 2008. The first rationalisation changes took place in this part – operation of a newly constructed central scrap yard in the Lazy area with the storage capacity of 6,000 tons of metal waste and monthly processing capacity of 2,000 tons was  commenced as of 15 September 2008. In December 2008, the warehouse management operation was rationalised – storage premises were limited and the number of employees was reduced by 14 percent.

During the next stage carried out as of 1 August 2008, mechanical and electro workshops in the ČSA plant in the Karvina Mine and also the maintenance centre in the Ostrava-Karvina coking plants, with 213 employees in total, including administration staff, were integrated next. As of 1 November 2008, mechanical workshops and surface services in the Lazy plant in the Karvina Mine, with the total number of 99 employees, were included in BU SC, and as of 1 January 2009, mechanical and electro workshops and surface services of the Darkov Mine with 275 employees were integrated.

The process of organising surface activities in a similar structure will continue in the ČSM Mine from 1 April 2009 and it will culminate in the Paskov Mine on 1 June 2009 with the target number of employees in BU SC totalling no more than 1,000.

The purpose of this reorganisation process is to make the maintenance operations more transparent and efficient and providing other surface services to mining organisational units.