The biggest defence fair has begun

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For the next week Paris is the capital of the world's armory. By 19 June, at the largest defence fair in the planet – Eurosatory – their products are presented by arms companies from around the globe, including 42 from our country. On the day of the beginning of the event, PGZ signed an crucial agreement with the French company Eurenco on the production of artillery launch loads 155 mm.

French ammunition company Eurenco is 1 of the largest manufacturers of explosives and military fuels on the Old Continent. During the first day of Eurosatory, the Paris defence fair, Polish Armed Forces GroupMore specifically, being part of the company Mansko S.A.She signed a contract with a French company. Under its power, a joint venture will be created in Poland to manufacture modular loads and three-base propellants for 155 mm artillery ammunition.

Adam Leszkiewicz, president of the PGZ, stressed that our national holding company wanted to cooperate with a French entity due to the fact that it has knowledge, technology and experience that our ammunition companies lack. “Thanks to cooperation with Eurenco, in the field of propelling charges, the transfer to our country of advanced technologies concerning advanced energy materials will take place, so that we will build national production sovereignty in their field”, said Leszkiewicz.

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As Jan Grabowski, a associate of the board of PGZ added, it is very crucial that Poles will have a majority share in the company – from 51 percent to 49 percent. The company is besides expected to start producing propelling charges in a flash. – The agreement provides that the company will erect the essential halls and equip them with machinery and training of employees in just 13 months – explains Grabowski.

The mill is to be built in the areas belonging to Mesko S.A. in Pionki and is to produce about 600,000 loads per year. As president Leszkiewicz adds, the plant will produce for the needs of both the PGZ and French Eurenco and the countries to which this entity provides artillery ammunition.

The top in the World

The Eurosatory fair opened on 15 June is considered to be the most crucial exhibition event in the defence manufacture in the world. In fresh years, as mushrooms after the rain are emerging, the fresh arms trade fairs are emerging, and their organizers, especially from the mediate East and Asia, are saving no expense to separate themselves from competition.

Despite this, for years the world's largest defence trade fair has been sought by organizers of 2 exhibition events: held in unusual yearsLondon's DSEi salon and in the even years of Eurosatory. For about a decade, this competition – if we accept the number of exhibitors as the most crucial parameter – wins Eurosatory. In the erstwhile edition of the fair, in 2024, more than 2 1000 companies participated, while in DSEi 2025 their products showed about 1700 companies.

This year's edition of Eurosatory is forecast to be historically the largest – the organizers announced that over 200 1000 m2 of exhibition space from 15 to 19 June, more than 2,600 companies from 68 countries present their products there, and the fair halls intend to visit about 50,000 visitors from 150 countries.

Poland is represented by 42 entities, including 11 companies belonging to the Polish Armed Forces Group. Among them, Huta Stalowa Wola promotes the Universal Modular Platform for caterpillars, on the basis of which it was created Badger Infantry Truck and vehicle Waran with 30 mm cannon, and Bydgoszcz Electromechanical Plant Belma – Baobab overhead miner system.

More information about Polish defence products promoted on Eurosatory, as well as the most interesting Prime Ministers of Military Weapons and Equipment from around the world, can be found in subsequent reports from the fair on the Polish-Army portal.pl

Krzysztof Wilewski

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