BUSINESS
A Slightly Different Company…
Petr Salvet, Executive officer of the Czech branch of Vyncke, comes from our region. He lives here
and enjoys spending his leisure time in the Beskid Mountains. He has been through a few managerial
positions in his career, not only in industry. In 2004, as he says, thanks to a lucky coincidence,
he got a job with the small production plant of Vyncke, and has been considerably engaged in its
development, the enhancement of staff competence, and the enforcement of the brand both within
the Vyncke international group and among all businesses in the Moravian-Silesian Region.
.Mr Salvet, you often claim that you represent a “slightly
different company”. Can you explain what exactly you
mean?
I believe that if you came to see our plant in Chlebovice, you
would not need any explanation. Coming to the very edge
of the industrial zone of Frýdek-Místek, you pass a wood
with bridges over a brook and benches for staff to relax
or have a wi-fi covered meeting. Behind the administrative
headquarters, integrated in the production hall building with
stunning architecture, there is a pond, a multifunctional
sports ground, an orchard and a little vineyard. Inside the
building, contrasting with the functionalist design of the
offices, there is a bar with beer on tap, a wood interior,
and a patio. The long history of the company is reflected
in the anvil on display in front of the entrance and the front
of one of the first Vyncke boilers built in the brick wall at the
reception desk.
The boiler was made by company founder Louis Vyncke,
a visionary Flemish blacksmith who, in 1912, in the heart
of European textile industries, came to understand the
energetic potential of flax waste. That is when he began
converting coal boilers to flax waste fired boilers, providing
textile producers with the energy necessary in the
production of yarn and cloth. His idea to produce energy
for industrial processes out of the businesses’ production
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waste still represents a great deal of Vyncke’s current
business strategy. Simple steam boilers, however, have been
replaced with large energy producing systems providing
energy in various forms in an environmentally-friendly way,
distributing them worldwide. Today, the fourth generation,
with Peter and Dieter Vyncke, continues as the technological
world leader in the production of clean energy out of waste
and biomass.
Why did the company owners decide to locate a plant
in our region? What is our added value?
The company came to the Moravian-Silesian Region
in 2000, when it rented a production hall in Lískovec.
First, the plant was only a production branch but soon an
engineering department was established and the business
started growing. The competence of local technicians and
engineers increased as well thanks to their expertise and
skill. In 2012, the company moved from the rented facility to
their own premises in Chlebovice near Frýdek-Místek, and
the total added value of engineering and the implementation
of projects exceeded that of the actual production.
The development of our Czech enterprise is based on the
industrial background of the Moravian-Silesian Region.
Many small and medium sized mechanical-engineering
companies operate here, and have become partners