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On Friday, the Supervisory Board of Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa appointed Tomasz Cudny as the president of the company’s management board. According to JSW, Cudny will start performing this function on Saturday, August 28 this year.
At the same time, the Supervisory Board entrusted Cudny with the duties of the vice-president for technical and operational matters and vice-president for development. The first of these functions is to be performed by Cudny until August 31 this year. (On September 1 she will be appointed by Edward Paździorko – PAP, selected in the earlier procedure), the second – until the appointment of a new vice-president for development.
Previously, from August 2019 until his resignation in February this year, Tomasz Cudny was the president of Tauron Wydobycie (Jacek Pytel was appointed in his place on February 13 this year). In the past, Cudny was also, among others, the president of Katowicki Holding Węglowy and the president of Spółka Restrukturyalizacji Mine.
Cudny was one of the seven candidates whose bids were submitted in the competition announced over two weeks ago for the position of the president of JSW. After verification of the formal criteria, the Supervisory Board announced on Friday interviews with four candidates who meet them.
It was a renewed qualification procedure for the head of JSW. The earlier one, announced on July 12, concerned the position of the president of JSW and his four deputies: for economic affairs, for trade, for development, and for technical and operational matters. At least five candidates applied for each of these positions. In total, 29 applications were received, one of which did not meet the formal criteria.
July 30 this year The supervisory board decided to appoint three vice-presidents of the company: Sebastian Bartos, who is responsible for trade in the JSW management board, Robert Ostrowski, who has been dealing with economic affairs since August 3, and Edward Paździorko, who will take the position of vice-president for technical and operational affairs on September 1.
At that time, the Council did not appoint a new president of JSW – his duties are performed (until the appointment of a new president) by a delegated member of the Council, director of the Central Mining Institute in Katowice, prof. Stanisław Prusek. On July 30, the Council re-delegated him to the management board, entrusting him with the function of the vice-president for technical and operational affairs.
The duties of JSW’s vice-president for development, who has also not been elected so far, have been performed by Artur Wojtków, vice-president for labor and social policy.
On July 9, the JSW Supervisory Board dismissed Barbara Piontek from the position of the company’s president, temporarily entrusting prof. Stanisław Prusk. Tomasz Duda was dismissed from the position of vice president for development, and Włodzimierz Hereźniak from the position of vice president for trade. Another vice-president, Jarosław Jędrysek, who is responsible for economic affairs in the management board, resigned himself, citing personal reasons as the reason. The dismissal of Piontek and Duda was demanded by representative unions from JSW.
Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa is the second largest domestic coal company in terms of employment and coal production, after Polska Grupa Górnicza. It specializes in the production of coking coal, used in the production of steel. It employs over 22 thousand. people. The last year – a crisis on the steel, coal and coke market – closed the JSW capital group with a net loss exceeding PLN 1.5 billion.
The first half of this year. The JSW group closed with a net loss of PLN 330.5 million. In the comparable period a year ago, the group had a loss of PLN 973.8 million.
In the first half of this year. the company’s mines produced 6.8 million tons of coal, compared to 6.7 million tons in the same period last year. In the production structure, 5.5 million tonnes was coking coal, and 1.4 million tonnes – steam coal. In the first half of this year, the coking plants belonging to the JSW Group generated 1.8 million tonnes of coke (about 1.6 million tonnes the year before). (PAP)
authors: Mateusz Babak
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