Fixing Jelcza

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In August we increased production to 100 cars a month," said Adam Leszkiewicz, CEO of PGZ, convincing that the recovery plan for Jelcz was working. In fresh years, the company has not kept up with the production of vehicles for the army, and delays have reached many months. The CEO of the holding company, to which Jelcz belongs, assured that next year the company would supply the military with all outstanding wagons.

To describe how crucial a supplier of military equipment and weapons is for the Polish army Jelcz, it is adequate to effort to calculate the types and types of vehicles of this brand that presently service in the armed forces. This includes all Polish anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems of Vistula, Narew and Pilica+, WR-40 Langust rocket launchers, lobster K and NSM anti-ship missiles. To this you request to add cameras and communication nodes, various types of radio-location stations and all types of container workshops, plus respective types of average trucks.

Unfortunately, the large orders directed in fresh years to the Laskowice company and the errors in the management of this company caused that Jelcz did not deliver respective 100 of the Polish vehicles contracted by the Military, and in many cases delays reached respective months.

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Currently, as the head of the Polish Armed Forces Group, to which Jelcz belongs, the situation has improved dramatically. There were problems in Jelcz, there were delays, but we're moving them out. We repair, correct, and take on fresh tasks – emphasizes Adam Leszkiewicz. PZZ president announces that Jelcz will importantly increase its production capacity next year. – We are preparing a fresh mill in Miłoszyce and factory in Raciborz, from which we believe that the first trucks will start to slide in the fall of next year – said Leszkiewicz during a conference organized at the global Defence manufacture Salon.

Mariusz Ptak, CEO of Jelcz sp. z o.o., who has been head of the company since last year, emphasizes that it has already greatly improved its production processes. “In August we produced 100 cars and we believe that in September we will evidence a akin result,” he said. As he added, modification of production processes includes the technologies utilized by the company. Jelcz wants the components produced in Poland, for example, to be utilized in his trucks to a much greater degree than currently. There are not only bridges and gearboxes, but besides engines in the list of components planned for polarization.

The plans are even wider. Jelcz besides wants to build trucks not only for the army. Although presented on MSPO model C642.50 is shown in military painting, this is the first tractor unit of this brand for driving on the road in over 20 years, not in hard terrain.

Krzysztof Wilewski

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