The KWAL Company Wooden Production 56-400 Oleśnica-Spalice nr 8a tel. fax 00 48 (10 44) 71 314 33 25   00 48 (10 44) 71 399 40 15 e-mail: KWalaszczyk@kwal.pl

We live in the world in which we can see various examples of what we call "a success", however, we hardly ever think about what it is, we do not think how we can achieve it, we do not realise that it is not easy to attain it and that it does not last to the end of our lives. To score a success, you have to have dreams which can come true and change into a success. When you are highly successful, you have to do everything to keep this state because you may not have another chance in the future. There are some factors which contribute to a constant development and enable any undertaking to last in the future: appropriate political and economic conditions promoting initiative and competition. A clever idea, imagination, belief in what we do, persistence and devotion to what we do, and then hard work and a speck of good luck can lead to a success. A typical example is the KWAL company which was founded in August in 1983 in Oleśnica. An idea of a friend was the source of the inspiration for taking a vital decision and taking a risk to run own business. A one-person workshop came into existence, it produced from deciduous wood handmade carvings for the door that was widely used on the local market by neighbouring workshops producing and renovating furniture. When in 1989 there were crucial political and economic changes, the company had a firm position thanks to its wise investments and saving money. A shocking therapy of economy restructuring introduced by the minister Leszek Balcerowicz could not harm it. Just the opposite, it helped the company.

The economic reform gave a chance to all those people who wanted to prove they were active, full of ideas, had initiative in their undertakings. Thanks to its bright decisions and investments based on its own means, the company increased the production area, partly restored its machinery, modernised its technology and production, changed the way of marketing. All those activities enabled the company to adjust easily and in a fast way to the coming changes - a transformation of earlier production to the production of wooden constructive elements used for the interior finishing.

Introducing some brave as for that time ideas, the "KWAL" company as the first in the Lower Silesia made some order on the chaotic market as far as the production and distribution of wooden skirting-boards was concerned. To meet market demands a precise range of goods was introduced, the company guaranteed that sizes and designs of the products were not changed in a long period of time, it stored its goods in containers according to their length and qualities, it executed orders on time and delivered goods on place. Thanks to it, the company soon gained new customers and was regarded by them as trustworthy.

The next chance appeared in 1995 when foreign companies started to invest in Poland - to build stores and big shopping centres with building accessories for the interior finishing and for all those people who are interested in DIY. Those shopping centres arose some concern among our salesmen, but at the same time they gave a chance to Polish companies to increase production and distribution of their own products. That was a chance for a company to obtain a good position not only on the local market but countrywide.

After preliminary negotiations, the KWAL company took a chance and started to cooperate with some selling networks. To meet the requirements of foreign contractors, the investment credits were spent on the rebuilding, modernisation of the existing company. The production halls were rebuilt, machinery together with technical supplies was modernised.

To meet the high requirements of the environment protection and to solve a problem of waste products, modern air filters were installed, the boiler house was equipped with a modern incinerating room cooperating with a computer-operated drying room that was supplied with hot water received from recycling. All those initiatives follow the high European Community requirements of the environment protection.

Employees of our company have a very good professional background and significant experience. As they are hard-working, responsible and, first of all, reliable, they are able to solve all problems they meet wisely and in a professional way. Our employees can be sure about their employment and secure about their future and future of their families. In their everyday work they learn what the new tendencies in wood processing are, they learn about modern achievements in woodworking machines, cutting tools, they learn about the newest technology of passage machining, turning, wood drying and gluing.

Wooden skirting-boards constitute the greatest part of the company production. Machinery, technical area, tools and another equipment is adjusted to such a line of production. The rest are glued and turned elements for table construction. Turned elements for individual fitting of shelves and bookshelves, balcony boards together with railings and boards for covering heaters. All products are made of pine wood from forests that have the FSC certificate. In the near future the company is planning to use oak and beech wood.

When starting a small business its owner did not have any great plans for the development of the company and did not hope for "money for jam". But he had something that is crucial when running a business and something that can lead you to a success- it is a courage to take decisions, a courage to take risk and a willingness to face your fate and make up your mind about your future. Appropriate marketing based on making right decisions on the effective use of material resources, capital resources, informative resources enabled a constant development of the company and enabled it to compete with the other companies on the market. Everything that happened later was the consequence of it, as well as making a profit. Making a profit has never been the superior aim for the owner.

This philosophy was with the company in the past and it will be in the future. It caused energy that helped to set goals and achieve them, goals without which our life would not have any meaning. That is why to the end of my days I will do my best to achieve my goals and KWAL is such a goal in my life.