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6 business • people • culture polandweekly 19.05.2022 - 01.06.2022
Pietruch Group invests in Philippines
The Pietruch Group is investing in the Philippines
again after doubling the capacity of its
manufacturing plant and product portfolio.
The manufacturing plant
was the first investment
of this type carried out by
a Polish company in the
Philippines.
The Pietruch Group,
a Polish family company with an
over 60-year history, has finalized
another stage of the investment
project in the Philippines.
A new vinyl sheet piling manufacturing
line was launched in
the Mariveles plant and the
product portfolio enriched with
three new profile types.
The Pietruch Group first invested
in the Philippines in
October 2016 as a joint-venture
with a Philippine partner Design
Science, a family engineering
company founded in 1981. In
Mariveles, the Freeport Area of
Bataan, a production plant was
launched to manufacture thermoplastic
geotechnical profiles
used in civil engineering projects
carried out to mitigate or
prevent climate change. The vinyl
sheet piling from Mariveles
has been supplied to Asean and
Australian markets. The manufacturing
plant was the first
investment of this type carried
out by a Polish company in the
Philippines.
Potential, competitive
advantage and access to new
project flow
Vinyl sheet piles are an environmentally
friendly, lightweight
and durable alternative to traditional
solutions such as steel,
concrete or wood. They are used
in civil engineering and floodprotection
infrastructure to
reinforce flood-walls and embankments
of water reservoirs,
protect slopes, as well as to build
water retention constructions.
April 25 2022 marked the new
chapter in the Pietruch Group’s
expansion in the Philippines.
Thanks to the new manufacturing
line, the Mariveles plant
will offer three additional profile
types, which will grant the
company access to a number
of complex projects carried out
in the Asean region and Australia.
New profiles will be used
to construct water-tight antifiltration
barriers used to stop
water migration. Owing to their
wide shape and strength parameters,
the new profiles may be
installed faster and at greater
depths. The first batch of the
new profiles will be sent to Rodriguez,
Rizal.
Environmentally friendly products
with lower carbon footprint,
sustainable manufacturing
processes powered with
green energy.
The Pietruch Group is a Polish
family enterprise founded in
1960, specializing in the manufacturing
and distribution of
top-class and innovative geosynthetic
products broadly used
in civil engineering. The company’s
offer includes a wide range
of vinyl and hybrid sheet piling,
specialized geogrids with stiff
nodes, as well as mobile floodprotection
systems. The manufacturing
processes are ISO
9001:2015 certified and partially
circular using recycled material.
The company delivers its solutions
and services to customers
in nearly 40 countries on five
continents, especially in regions
sensitive to the impact of climate
change.
photo credit: pietrucha.pl
Fresh Inset revolutionizing storage and transportation
of fruit and veg
A tech company from Toruń is revolutionizing
the way companies store and transport fruit,
vegetables or flowers
Fresh Inset is a technology
company in the post-harvest
freshness preservation and
food-tech space. It was founded
by Andrzej Wolan, Mariusz Bosiak
and Krzysztof Czaplicki in
Toruń.
The Fresh Inset vision is to save
the world’s fresh produce resources
by delivering efficient
Vidre+ technology to preserve
freshness throughout the supply
chain from packer/shipper to
end user. Vidre+ technology is
designed to fit both developed
and emerging produce markets.
Food Waste is a global problem.
One-third of all food produced
is wasted, equating to $1 trillion
in food waste globally. One-half
of fruit and vegetables spoil
while in storage, transit, retail,
and at home before they are ever
consumed.
The water and energy
consumed in producing
fruit and vegetables is
wasted when the produce
never reaches the end
consumer.
Using technology, growers,
packers and shippers are making
the supply chain for fruits and
vegetables more sustainable.
The water and energy consumed
in producing fruit and vegetables
is wasted when the produce
never reaches the end consumer.
In addition, reducing food
waste reduces tonnes of unnecessary
CO2 emissions. Vidre+ allows
the supply chain to adopt
more energy efficient practices
without sacrificing shelf-life or
fruit quality.
Vidre+ technology provides solutions
to extend the shelf life of
fresh produce for growers, packers,
distributors and retail. It
preserves the texture, firmness,
taste and appearance of produce
during storage, transportation
and retail display with the use
of an innovative delivery system
that provides 1-MCP post-harvest
freshness protection for fruit
and vegetables in a simple to use
sticker format. Vidre+ provides
growers, distributors, packers
and retailers flexibility and ease
of use freshness technology that
allows them to deliver “just harvested”
freshness on a year-round
basis and enables retailers to increase
customer satisfaction with
fresh, high quality produce.
Although the technology was
created by scientists from
Vidre+ technology provides
solutions to extend the
shelf life of fresh produce
for growers, packers,
distributors and retail.
Toruń, an international team is
working on its development and
commercialization - its members
come from the US, Brazil,
Argentina and Peru. After a series
of successful tests, incl. in
the US, Peru, Argentina, Brazil,
Pakistan and several European
Union countries, Fresh Inset not
only patented the technology in
the US and over 50 other countries,
but also began its commercialization.
Fruit and vegetables
with Vidre+ protection are already
sold in Argentina and Pakistan,
and the registration process
in other markets is already
at an advanced stage.