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Strategy & Values 

Strategy

The Group seeks to distinguish itself from its competitors in terms of responsiveness to customer specifications, production of quality coal and coke products, timeliness of delivery and knowledge of market trends to maintain its leading market position in the Czech Republic and Central Europe.

The Group intends to accomplish this by pursuing the following focused business strategy:

  • Improving efficiency and profitability of mining operations
  • Strengthening reserve base from existing mines
  • Actively pursuing growth opportunities in Poland, the rest of Central Europe and elsewhere
  • Maintaining strong health and safety record, and
  • Seeking to implement and maintain international best practice in corporate governance

Our principal focuses:

  • Cost control and cash management
  • Maintain high level of responsiveness to customer specifications
  • Operational efficiencies
  • Timely deliveries
  • Enhance profitability by investing in equipment and technology
  • Enhance safety
  • Focus on core business of coal mining and coke production
  • Build the reserve base from existing mines
  • Selectively pursue growth opportunities in the region

We expect to benefit as steel production grows over the long term to meet the demands of the auto, appliance, construction and other manufacturing industries in Central Europe.

Values

Modern technologies

In 2007 NWR took a major strategic decision to improve the efficiency and profitability of its business. Our principal project, Productivity Optimisation Programme (‘POP 2010’) is now complete and our investment is already starting to deliver increased productivity performance, reduced maintenance efforts and improved health and safety at our mines. We also implemented Coking Plant Optimisation Programme (‘COP 2010’), which will help to improve the efficiency of our coking operations. COP 2010 was concluded by modernising and centralising the Company’s coking operations at the Svoboda site while closing the Jan Sverma operations by the end of 2010.

Health and safety of our employees is of the highest priority

Maintaining the highest standards of health and safety is critical for a business working in an inherently dangerous environment and we have continued our drive to raise standards and reduce risks in all our operations. Hard coal mining inevitably involves a high degree of risk, particularly in our case given the depth of many of our operations. The risks emanating from geological hazards, including rock falls as well as gas explosions, are always present and have to be adequately managed ... More >>

Sustainability

We believe that high standards of corporate responsibility are critical to the sustainability and profitability of our business. Keeping our employees safe, minimising our environmental impact and contributing to the communities where we operate, are all integral to the way we operate.

For further information please refer to the Sustainability section

Environment

As one of the major industrial players in the region, we work closely with a range of stakeholders, with Czech Mining Authority, the Ministry of the Environment, local municipalities, mining communities and environmental bodies ... More >>

Reclamation

With mining activity taking place in the region for the last 200 years and little reclamation work taking place in the past, NWR is working closely with the Czech government on a number of projects to restore the natural landscape surrounding our mining operations. Since 1989, we have spent more than CZK 4 billion on environment protection and reclamation. The pace of land recovery works has increased as a result of co-financing from government bodies ... More >>

Waste and pollution

We are committed to minimising the impact of refuse from our operations. We maintain refuse disposal storage sites for waste rock - coarse and fine debris - and we sell a portion of waste rock for local use in road building and construction. We also recover fine coal waste from ponds wherever possible, which is then blended with other coal products for sale ... More >>

Our community

Our contribution to the local communities where we operate is channelled through the OKD Foundation, a charitable organisation established by OKD in 2008. The Foundation has rapidly become a well-respected leader in the not for profit sector of the Czech Republic. It has distributed approximately EUR 3.8 million and supported over 600 projects so far ... More >>