ROZHOVOR

From the Local Region

to the Other Side of the World

Mr Pavel Mohelník, CEO and co-owner of the company Ferrit, s.r.o., was born in 1955 in Čeladná. He

studied in the Department of Metallurgy at Mining University – Technical University (VŠB-TU) in Ostrava.

He started his career in the department of production management in TOS Kuřim, where he worked

until 1982. Then he moved back to the north of Moravia with his wife and started working in in technical

development in the plant of Ostroj Opava located in Frýdlant nad Ostravicí. Half a year later he moved

to the sales department as a spare parts sales manager, moving from machinery sales manager to sales

deputy manager. He has always been keen on the mountains, gardening, and his work. He is married

with two adult children: his daughter Jana is a doctor and his son Petr is a CEO at Ferrit.

Advisory company EY has held the Podnikatel roku

(Entrepreneur of the Year) contest in the MoravianSilesian Region since 2005. Ing. Mohelník has been

among those awarded Entrepreneurs of the Year.

Ferrit is a Czech enterprise (est. in 1993) operating on

the global market. From a trading company it developed

into a production enterprise with its own development

centre. The majority of its production is in suspended

monorail transport systems, which has won the company

its leading position worldwide.

Mr Mohelník, your company celebrated its twenty-fifth

anniversary, and you were also awarded Entrepreneur

of the Year in 2018. How closely are these two related?

First I want to emphasize that I do not consider the award

Entrepreneur of the Year my personal success, it is an

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award and reward to all the company for all the work

and outcomes. In our enterprise as well as in many more

businesses, an individual is nothing, it is the team that

counts, and we have developed our team for twenty-five

years. 300 of our employees are highly qualified and

skilled, the most precious feature of Ferrit. Celebrating

the anniversary and the award in the same year is a very

favourable coincidence and a nice symbol which rewards

our common work and confirms our plans for the future.

Your production plan is closely related to extraction

companies. What is the future of this field in Europe

and worldwide?

In fact, I cannot see any future in Europe, probably

excluding Poland and Ukraine, the two countries with

active mining industries. Our company mostly benefits