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Soon, another species of monkeys will be able to fool around on the playground built with our Pecor Quattro pipes. ViaCon provided employees of the Gdańsk Zoo, free of charge, with plastic pipes with diameters of 50 and 80 centimeters. The idea has already worked for chimpanzees, this time the pipes will go to the mandrills’ run.

One of the photos taken by our employee, Mateusz Lubieniec, was ranked third in the annual CSPI’s photo contest. The shot shows an overnight assembly of our SuperCor® steel structure at the worksite of S3 express road near Goleniów in Poland. The Corrugated Steel Pipe Institute organizes the contest since 2017. Each year the event enjoys great popularity among the participants. 

ViaCon donated 12 waste containers to the Electronics and Telecommunications School Complex in Leszno. The litter bins are made of Pecor Quattro pipes. We are happy that our products contribute to the protection of the natural environment. It is not the first place where one can find such rubbish containers - similar ones were installed over the Rydzyna Reservoir in the close vicinity of our company in Poland.

ViaCon was strongly represented on the Bridge Builder Day – its 30th edition held in Gothenburg (Sweden) was dedicated as usually to the broadly defined bridge infrastructure. Over 800 participants from universities, Swedish road administration and the public sector took part in this year's edition. Leszek Janusz gave a lecture about the application of buried soil steel bridges.

ViaCon works according to the principles of Kaizen philosophy, willingly using hints of people who deal with specific processes in our company on their daily basis. Thanks to their ideas for improvements, we can constantly upgrade what we do.
Bogdan Rzepecki from the Maintenance Department submitted in 2019  the most applications, for which he was awarded a family trip. Congratulations and thank you for your commitment to the continuous improvement of our company.

Three of our employees: Leszek Janusz, Michał Mońka and Maciej Nowak took part in the 99th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, that was held January 12–16, 2020, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, D.C.
The TRB Annual Meeting is the largest global gathering focusing on innovative solutions for all modes of transportation attracting each year thousands of professionals, researchers and policy makers.  
More about the event: http://bit.ly/2020TRB

Piotr Tomala gave a speech on buried structures in civil engineering during the seminar "Designing, construction and maintenance of road infrastructure" that was held last week in Jarnołtówek. The event was organized by Polish Association of Engineers and Technicians of Transportation.

ViaCon Polska participated in the 13th Scientific and Technical Conference on Culverts and Animal Crossings that was held in the Didactic Centre of AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków last week. The conference was an excellent opportunity for participants to share ideas, knowledge and experience on designing and buildings animal crossings and culverts in Poland.

Last weekend the employees of all three ViaCon companies operating in Poland met in Luboń at the annual sales meeting. Each branch presented the most interesting projects that have been created with the use of our products in Poland during the past year. 

ViaCon presents its offer at Europe’s largest dedicated military engineering event - Combat Engineer 2019 that is being held in Cracow. This is a second edition of the conference taking place in Cracow, previously it was held in Prague, Nuremberg and twice in Munich. The next conference is scheduled on 17th - 19th of November 2020.

To learn more go to: defenceleaders.com

The second ViaCon Group Production Meeting which took place in November 13-15, 2019 in Győr (Hungary) gathered almost 30 participants from 9 countries. It was a great opportunity to exchange knowledge regarding such areas as production, purchasing, quality, HSE, maintenance and LEAN manufacturing. Presentations and discussions were accompanied by creative thinking workshops.

The 26th World Road Congress is being held in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. This event, organised every four years aims to share worldwide knowledge, trends and best practises in the fields of road, infrastructures and transport. More than 120 countries have their representatives from both public and private sector.  ViaCon is present there at two booths, one gathering Polish companies and the other shared with our great Partner Eco.

For more information go to the official website:
http://www.aipcrabudhabi2019.org

Most of our products are super large and heavy. How do we deal with the transport? Watch our YouTube video to find out.

ViaCon cares about its neighbourhood and sponsored 23 trash bins that are placed by Rydzyński Reservoir in the near vicinity of our factory in Poland. The trash bins are made of our Pecor Quattro pipes. We do hope that it will help to effectively eliminate the problem of littering on the paths around the reservoir.