Innovation Waldemar Budzyński Vice-president for Technical Affairs, Exatel Exatel is one of the largest telecommunication companies in Poland. What entities are your services addressed to? Exatel caters for businesses, large operators and institutions of state administration in Poland. More than 1,500 entities are our clients. We provide services related to data transmission, line lease, voice service and internet. We rely on the newest and most modern technologies, owing to which we maintain a strong position on the market. Exatel has one of the most innovative networks in Europe with a length of 20,000 kilometres of optic fibres. You have received the award for the SuperCore IP project. What is it and what are its benefits? We have been seeing the need to increase the capacity of backbone networks for a good few years now. Last year, Exatel decided to expand its backbone network through equipping it in highly efficient routers integrated with IPoDWDM links and thus increasing its capacity 8 times, from 5 Gbit/s to 40 Gbit/s. This is one of the most advanced technologies currently used in telecommunications, which reduces the necessary investment outlays as well as the costs of maintaining the network (i.e. through reducing electricity consumption).
Henryk Lewiński (Israel-Poland Chamber of Commerce) and Jarosław Dąbrowski (a Finance)
Zbigniew Zienowicz President, Hydromega Sp. z o.o. Since the beginning of your activity you have been dealing with designing and producing hydraulic systems and industrial automation, but you have also been running research. The common feature of all our projects are actuator-based hydraulic systems, which occur practically in all of our innovative products. The idea for the company arose almost 30 years ago in the Gdynia Shipyard, when it turned out that the realization of many interesting and innovative projects was impossible in the shipyard. The company has grown on the basis of many interesting ideas and knowledge, which until today is its greatest asset. Consistent policy has led to many innovative products which today are produced in series. One of Hydromega’s successes was undertaking export production. There would be no development without investments. Using, among others, EU subsidies we have expanded our production facilities, which was a prerequisite for the realization of the currently signed contracts.
Maja Sujkowska (ECKP), Beata Sujkowska (Ecoacoustic), Jarosław Chrobociński (Le Regal)
The title which you have won is a confirmation that a well thought-out tactic, creativity and introducing innovative projects are a recipe for success. It is difficult to talk about the recipe for success when talking about the economy. The awarded project is the result of many years of work of a group of people, including research institutes and the Military Technical Academy (WAT) and the Innovation Centre of the Polish Federation of Engineering Associations (NOT). Today Lewiatan has both civil and military applications. I am happy that our designs are created in cooperation with research and development institutes. We have a certain ease in establishing contacts with the world of science. I believe than we are helped by our passion with which we create and implement our projects, which, I think, are the recipe for success, about which you asked at the beginning of our conversation. Maja Lidke (EFL), Balbina Wołongiewicz (Natura Drogerie)
30 :: polish market ::
7-8 /2011