Last year ORLEN Group launched H2 Academy, the first Polish education programme for hydrogen specialists in various industries, like manufacturing, aviation, shipping and transportation. So far two courses have been organised with a few dozen lecturers and experts for 60 students and graduates at several locations in Poland, like Anwill Włocławek (chemical facilities), Toyota Motor…
Centralny Port Komunikacyjny – CPK (also called Solidarity Transport Hub) has launched a tender for design, delivery and implementation of the Baggage Handling System (BHS) for CPK airport to be erected 37 km west of Warsaw. Applications may be filed by 12 February and CPK invites companies that in the last 25 years have launched BHS in…
Creotech Instruments from Poland signed EUR 400k contract with OHB Systems AG to engineer a satellite capable of docking and receiving fuel from another satellite orbiting Earth. OHB leads international consortium that realises this innovative project for the European Space Agency (ESA). In the beginning of 2024 Creotech started designing 60 kg satellite based on…
On 17 January Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (or Solidarity Transport Hub) received building permit for 4.6 km high-speed rail tunnel in Łódź, the longest one in Poland. Last December CPK signed PLN 147 million contract with Budimex for this task. Works on other Łódź investments are underway, Keller Polska has been reinforcing foundations at Łódź Fabryczna railway station since…
In 2023 astronomers from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń discovered a new planet twice bigger and 15 times heavier than Earth. It circles the star known as WASP-84 in just 35 hours in a very tight orbit, causing its surface temperature to exceed 1000 degrees Celsius. As its rocky surface is directly exposed to…
On 12 December 2024 Orlen launched a new power plant supplied with treated waste water from its chief production facility in Płock. The plant will produce 800 MWh energy for ca. 400 households per year. The construction costed zł 3m ($ 750k) and the energy put in public grid will earn income at zł 0.5m…
In November 2023 PGNiG Upstream Norway from ORLEN Group took-over the extraction company KUFPEC Norway AS, subsidiary of Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company k.s.c.c., thanks to which ORLEN’s gas extraction in the Norwegian Continental Shelf will increase by 1/3 to exceed 4 billion cubic meters per year. The transaction includes shares in 5 fields already…
In December 2023 last year Eurostat published data for the 1st quarter with 51% increase in reloading volume of Port Gdańsk, which was the EU record that resulted in Gdańsk’s 5th position in the European Union. The biggest ports Rotterdam, Antwerpen, Bruges and Hamburg reported declines in the 1st quarter 2023. Gdańsk has been the…
In November 2023 Thorium Space S.A. joined HummingSAT project of the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop the first Polish telecommunications satellite SmallGEO expected to be put in orbit in 5 years. Thorium is a Polish company that designs and constructs innovative telecom systems. It was established in 2017 and operates in Wrocław and Warsaw….
LOT Polish Airlines are the 3rd best in the world in AirHelp Score ranking of 83 airlines surveyed from 1st January to 30th September 2023 as the biggest and most popular ones on the global list of over 800. The ranking criteria were: flight timeliness (within 15 minutes), passengers opinions (on flight crew, comfort, cleanness,…
On 24 November Polish Ministry of Climate and Environment issued a decision-in-principle for construction in Pątnów-Konin of the country’s 2nd large nuclear power plant using two APR1400 reactors delivered by South Korean KHNP. According to the application submitted for the plant in August this year by PGE PAK Energia Jądrowa, the two units will generate…
On Poland’s Independence Day 11 November 2023 two new Polish satellites were put in orbit by Falcon 9 (SpaceX) starting from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to launch in total 90 satellites for various companies from all-over the world. The first Polish satellite Intuition-1 observes the Earth with a hyperspectral instrument and on-board computing…