RAFAKO SA
Belonging to PBG Group the largest European boiler manufacturer, RAFAKO S.A. offers complete power generation units including units for supercritical steam parameters. The company offers design and manufacture of a wide range of boilers, including PC boilers and fluidized bed boilers as well as flue gas cleaning systems including FGD, SCR plants and electrostatic precipitators.
Company details
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Power Distribution
- Market Focus:
- Internationally (various countries)
- Year Founded:
- 1999
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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Company description
Belonging to PBG Group RAFAKO was established in 1949 and employs ca. 2000 people. The company has been always tied to power generation industry offering design and manufacture of boilers and environment protection plants. Since 1993 RAFAKO S.A. is a joint stock company which shares are quoted on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Since 2011 RAFAKO S.A. belongs to PBG Group.
RAFAKO is a leader on the Polish power generation equipment market and the biggest boiler producer in Europe. Ca. 80% of boilers operated by Polish utilities had been delivered by RAFAKO. The Company is also a leader within the field of flue gas desulfurization plants based on wet lime and semi-dry methods.
RAFAKO S.A. people have clearly defined their vision of the future. We are among those who take part in a mission aimed at satisfying the basic needs of the mankind; supplying energy and heat.
Our work however is not only limited to design and manufacture of equipment. Our ambitious task is to make power generation as environment friendly as possible. The equipment that we create secure permanent and reliable power supply bringing, at the same time, such tangible benefits as air quality improvement. Our activity is focused on recreating the long lost equilibrium of ecosystem within which people make reasonable use of natural resources and undertakes their protection.
Quality, Environment, Safety
Products manufactured by RAFAKO Boiler Engineering Company are operated under high pressure and temperature, therefore they are subject to strict quality requirements.
Within the field of design and fabrication of power generation equipment, the company constantly meets the requirements of Polish UDT, American ASME, German TRD as well as British, Swiss, Finnish and other rules.
In 1995, RAFAKO obtained ISO-9001 certificate, thus finalising the first stage of systematised approach to quality management. In 1998 RAFAKO obtained ISO-14001 environment management certificate.
In 2002 integration of Quality Assurance System and Environment Management System according to standards PN-EN 9001:2000 and PN-ISO 14001 was completed.
At the beginning of 2003 the Company was awarded with a certificate confirming that RAFAKO S.A. had introduced and applies a quality system according to requirements of European Union Directive 97/23/UE within the scope of boilers, pressure vessels and other equipment. It means that the Company already meets the requirements put on other European manufacturers. The above achievements are the crowning of particular stages of Company's organisation improvement in respect of Total Quality Management principles, which started in early nineties. In 2001 RAFAKO S.A. was awarded with Polish Quality Award confirming Company's addiction towards modern model of quality policy.
In september 2006 RAFAKO received certificates which crown the Company efforts to supply boilers and pressure vessels to demanding Chinese market. The certificates issued by Chinese national inspection authority refers to Boilers class A and Pressure Vessels class A1 & A2.
ISO 9001 Certificate was granted by RWTÜV and certifies that RAFAKO SA has established and applies a quality assurance system for designing , manufacture , assembly and servicing of installations for power plants and chemical industry as well as environmental protection facilities. Implementation of an environmental management system in RAFAKO SA according to ISO 14001 standard obliges the company to continuous system improvement. Desired direction within this scope is exerting influence on users of equipment and facilities produced by the company in order to create demand for most modern 'ecological' products. This requires a way of thinking in categories of products life cycle and providing conditions for integration of its fundamental stages beginning from engineering, through manufacture, operation, retrofitting to final elimination.
Research & Development
As the largest European manufacturer of boilers and environment protection equipment - we are obliged to care about development of new and modernization of existing products and technologies. Particular attention to the development foreseen in the long-term investment strategy and a group of top specialists allow us to search for new ideas and create innovative solutions.
Our R&D activity is carried out in close cooperation with a number of scientific institutions, including Wroclaw University of Technology, Silesian University of Technology, Academy of Mining and Metallurgy in Cracow, Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences in Gdansk.
RAFAKO projects are focused on several tasks, i.e. development of boiler technology and environment protection equipment such as flue gas desulphurization plants (FGD) and NOx reduction plants (including SCR), as well as modernization of dust removal equipment.
RAFAKO innovative activities are financed both by its own and public funds. Public grants are obtained through active participation in the national and EU research and development programs.
On European scale RAFAKO participates in international project DeeCon (Innovative After-Treatment System for Marine Diesel Engine Emission Control). Its main objective is to create a novel integrated on-board, after-treatment unit for ships that combines different sub-units, which will be optimized to remove specific primary pollutants.