About company
Řetězárna a.s. is situated in Česká Ves near the district town Jeseník on the road to border crossing Mikulovice-Glucholazy (Poland).
Řetězárna was founded in 1894 and that is why the chain production has more than a hundred year tradition. The plant was privatised in 1992 and since 1st January 1993 it has had a form of a joint stock company.
In the company there are approx. 244 employees at present, working mainly on 2 or 3 shift–operations.
The main production programme of our company focuses on production of the welded chains from dia. 2 mm up to 60 mm in Grades from 24 to 100. Beside this, we produce the chain forged accessories – e.g. various hooks, shackles, connectors etc. up to weight 7,5 kg. The third main group of our products is the drawn wire (from dia. 1,8 up to 16 mm).
Our products are supplied in metres or in exact sections or as a part of other chain products. As far as our products are concerned, we are able to supply the following items: sling chains, tyre protective chains for wheel loaders working in highly abrasive surroundings, snow chains for trucks and passenger cars, skidder chains for forestry, chains for various conveyors, mining chains, fishing chains etc.
Apart from welded chains we also manufacture unwelded chains – called knotted chains from dia. 1,8 up to 5,5 mm.
As for our production capacity we produce approx. 12,500 tonnes of all kinds of our products every year. 30% of our production are sold in the Czech Republic and 70 % are exported. At present we supply our products into 36 countries over all the world. Our main customers are in Germany, England, Poland, Spain, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Venezuela, Australia, Austria, Hungary, Croatia etc.
Experienced staff, longtime experience, modern machinery and equipment with well-established and operated quality assurance system in accordance with ISO 9001:2008, ecology in accordance with ISO 14001:2004 and Occupational Health and Safety Management System OHSAS 18001:2007 give our customers certainty that they buy first-class products. The quality is proved by the certification by the Testing laboratory (BG) of Germany in Hannover for hoist chains, sling chains and components of Grade 80 which only several firms own over all the world.
