Description of activity

The company's main fields of activity include: (i) conducting scientific research and research and development studies for the technical development associated with the transmission and distribution of energy and control of power system loads, (ii) production and delivery of specialist software tools, systems and automation equipment, (iii) production of power equipment and apparatus, (iv) conducting environmental studies of electrical/ electronic equipment and systems, (v) letting office rooms and exhibition hall. IASE operates mainly on the domestic market and its offer is primarily addressed to two customer groups. The first group comprises direct customers at the premises of which Institute's products are implemented. These include power plants, combined heat and power generating plants, industrial plants, power distribution companies, the Polish Power Grid, etc. The second group comprises entities for which IASE fulfils the role of subcontractor or with which it cooperates in the scope of developing complex technological solutions. These include such companies as ALSTOM, ABB, PROCOM, ZRE, ZREW, Energopomiar,  Centrum Montaż, EPCON, INTEC S.J., Polimex ZREW and other. The Institute's product structure is diversified. The most profitable are two product groups, namely MASTER automation systems and UNIMAT electro-hydraulic turbine regulators, and from the group of services KSE and ARCM systems for controlling power blocks in critical emergencies. The work is progress in order to develop new products, such as KSE and ARCM systems for controlling power blocks in critical emergencies, automation of block start-ups and shut-downs to ensure flexibility on the power generation market, automation and optimization of the combustion process in fluid boilers and other boilers for biofuel combined heat and power and laboratory testing (organization of calibration stands for EMC apparatus and organization of a testing range in the large exhibition hall - unique tests in the domestic scale). IASE's competitors can be divided into two groups. The first group comprises world's large concerns, which for many years have been specialized in the production of power systems, e.g. Siemens, Honeywell, ABB, Emmerson Process Management, Alstom and other. The second group comprises small domestic companies such as those established by the former employees of IASE, Energoster and EPCON, which offer some of the similar products, and other companies emerging on the power market as a result of restructuring of maintenance, electrical and automation departments of other companies, as well as small businesses operating in the power sector. Until September 30, 2007, IASE operated as a state enterprise; as of October 1, 2007 it began its activity as a sole-shareholder company of the Treasury.