The construction of the building in the south-east of Lodz (Ofiar Terroryzmu 11 Września) will be completed within nine months. Production is intended to start in Autumn 2023. Machinery and equipment will be installed on a step by step basis in the 17,000 square metres of space in the building. “We are building up the production facilities on a gradual basis,” explains Ley. There are plans to create 300 to 400 new jobs within five years. The costs for building and for the machinery equipment are 50 million euros.
Future production will focus on fans for heat pumps. “We have seen this trend emerging over a number of years,” explains Korzybski. From Warsaw, he provides support for numerous heat pump manufacturers that operate large plants in Poland. In view of rising energy prices, the use of heat pumps will enjoy an unprecedented boom, especially in Europe. The 16 employees currently working at Ziehl-Abegg Poland also serve the customers of the global fan manufacturer in Latvia and Lithuania.
“We are the technology leader in fans which have been optimized with the help of biomimetics,” says Korzybski. This special fan design reduces noise and consequently enables heat pumps to be operated in densely built-up areas. “An additional feature is the low energy requirement,” stresses the engineer in precision mechanics who has been working for Ziehl-Abegg since 1997.
In the future, smaller fans, which up to now have been imported into Europe from Asia, will also be built in Lodz. These fans are used for home ventilation or in cooling for electronics and refrigeration technology.
About Ziehl-Abegg
Ziehl-Abegg (Künzelsau, Germany) is one of the leading global companies in the field of ventilation, control and drive technology. In the 1950s, Ziehl-Abegg established the basis for modern fan drives: external rotor motors which even today are still seen as state-of-the-art worldwide. Another area of business is electric motors which provide the power, for example, for elevators, medical applications (computer tomography equipment) or deep-sea underwater vehicles. The theme of electro-mobility for motor vehicles was established as part of the Ziehl-Abegg Automotive Team in 2012.
The high-tech company has an impressive innovative capability. Ziehl-Abegg employs 2,600 personnel in its production plants in southern Germany. The company has a global workforce of 4,700 spread between 16 production plants, 29 companies and 112 sales locations. The products, approx. 30,000 in all, are sold in more than 100 countries. Turnover totals 716 million euros, with exports accounting for three quarters of the figure, (all numbers refer to the year 2021).
Emil Ziehl founded the company in Berlin in 1910 as a manufacturer of electric motors. After World War II the company’s headquarters were relocated to southern Germany. Ziehl-Abegg SE is not a listed company but instead is family-owned.
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