History 

Official ground breaking ceremony marks the start of the Debiensko mine project. 

New World Resources Plc was incorporated in the United Kingdom and became, as a result of a share-for-share offer, a parent company of New World Resources N.V. In May, A shares of New World Resources Plc commenced dealing on the London, Warsaw and Prague Stock Exchanges.
 

KARBONIA PL Sp. z o.o. changed its legaů form to NWR KARBONIA S.A. (February 28, 2011) 

OKK has commenced trial operations for its newly built coke battery at the Svoboda Coking Plant in Ostrava, the Czech Republic. The new battery is a key part of the COP 2010 capital investment programme, allowing OKK to consolidate all coke production at a single, more efficient coking plant. 

New World Resources B.V. was converted to New World Resources N.V. and listed on the London, Warsaw and Prague Stock Exchanges.
 

New World Resources B.V. was incorporated as a Dutch private limited liability company to serve as the holding company for the coal mining operations and the coking business of the Company and certain related businesses.
 

Majority shareholders buy out minority shareholders, consolidating their shareholdings in the former OKD, CMD and Metalimex.
 

Karbon Invest purchased 46% of the shares of the former OKD from the National Property Fund of the Czech Republic. Shortly thereafter, Karbon Invest was acquired by RPG Group.
 

Karbon Invest acquired controlling stakes in CMD and the former OKD from minority shareholders. A majority stake in Metalimex, a commodities trader, was acquired by CMD and K.O.P., a.s. In 1998, the former OKD purchased all of the outstanding shares of K.O.P., a.s., a majority shareholder of Metalimex.
 

NWR KARBONIA was established in 1999 under the name of KARBONIA PL Sp. z o.o. in the little town of Kaczyce in Upper Silesia, near the Czech border. 

40% of the former OKD shares and 45% of CMD shares respectively were privatised through a voucher privatisation programme and purchased by individuals and investment funds.
 

Establishment of OKD, OKK, a.s. The joint-stock company was established on 1 January 1994 by the allocation of OKD, a.s. assets. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of OKD, a.s. The new enterprise was created by merging two mining coking plants located within the city of Ostrava and one more plant located in the Karviná region. 

In the early 1990s, state enterprises engaged in coal mining were converted into two joint‑stock companies (akciová společnost), the former OKD and CMD, to prepare them for privatisation. The former OKD comprised most of the mining industry located in the Ostrava‑Karviná region, while CMD operated hard-coal mines in the Kladno region and Ostrava‑Karvina region (CSM in Stonava).
 

Government of the former Czechoslovakia nationalised the hard coal mining industry.
 

Regular mining activities in the northeast region of the Czech Republic commence. Prior to 1946, the hard‑coal mining business in the Ostrava‑Karvina region was under the control of several companies. One of the most famous owners was the family of Salomon Mayer Rothschild.