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Introduction About us

About us

  • UNEKO is a Czech aluminium foundry with a tradition
  • Aluminium castings have been produced and supplied by us since 1991
  • We annually cast 300 tonnes of castings into sand moulds
  • Our machining room machines produce aluminium alloy castings
  • We do heat treatment for the castings and further improve them
  • Each day we control the quality of production and poured materials
  • We test machined castings and we check them against customer requests
  • 90+ company employees work for our customers
  • UNEKO’s annual turnover of more than 10 mil. EUR
  • We have customers in more than 20 countries on all continents of the world
  • We comply with agreed quality guidelines, meet deadlines and have affordable prices

History

  • 1991 – UNEKO spol. s r. o. established - founding and current majority shareholders are Ing. Ivo Makový and Zdeněk Šarman
  • 1992 – Machining plant in Nové Heřminovy acquired
  • 1997 – First CNC machining tools purchased - machining park renovated after extensive flooding
  • 2001 – Invested into a production building in Zátor
  • 2003 – ISO 9001 quality management system introduced
  • 2007 – Foundry constructed - technology expanded and modernized to prepare and recycle self-hardening formation mixtures
  • 2008 – New administrative building constructed and production operation in Nové Heřminovy completed
  • 2011 – Metallurgical laboratory completely modernized
  • 2013 – Machining shop park expanded and modernized
  • 2014 – Investment in a new melting furnace
  • 2017 – Investment in a new crane runway
  • 2018 – New 5-axis machining center DMF 260/11
  • 2019 – New air ventilation and filtration system installed in the foundry operation
  • 2020 – Implementation of a new ERP system
  • 2021 – New CMM laboratory equipped with ZEISS CONTURA ACTIVE 9/18/8
  • 2024 – Start of production halls reconstruction (thermal insulation)
  • 2025 – New compressor hall, new moulding line, new 5-axis machining center


Objectives

    1. To remain a reliable, stable and competent partner in aluminium castings supplies
    2. To continually find new and more effective solutions to developing and producing machined castings
    3. To ensure our employees continually grow professional, maintain current quality and meet delivery deadlines