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The new president will start performing his duties on March 25.
“Krzysztof Trofiniak is a manager with many years of experience in the arms and heavy industry and an expert in the development and production of weapons technology,” said the spokesman of the Polish Armaments Group, informing on Friday about the result of the qualification procedure on March 21 this year.
An expert in criticism of PiS governments
Years ago, an extensive text exposing the “achievements” of the new president of PGZ was published by the wpolityce.pl website. Journalists revealed that Trofiniak was an expert in the so-called Investigation Team for Threats to State Security. This was an initiative of Civic Platform politicians, whose main activity was to criticize the decisions of the then head of the Ministry of National Defense, Antoni Macierewicz.
During one of the meetings, Trofiniak said: “The Polish arms industry suffered huge, difficult to calculate losses during the PiS government. Experts were fired and teams were broken up. It is impossible to make up for the delay in the development of this industry.”
He “built” Huta Stalowa Wola
In the same text we read: “Krzysztof Trofiniak was the president of HSW in 2008-2015. Previously, he was a member of the management board, he also held managerial positions and also worked in HSW’s daughter companies. During his presidency, four HSW daughter companies went bankrupt: HSW Zakład Transportu sp. z o.o., HSW Elektrotechnika i Automatyka sp. z o.o., HSW Zakład Zestawów Mechanicznych sp.
The portal quoted its informant: “during his presidency, the entire Huta was on the verge of bankruptcy. The idea to cover the huge debts and save the part of the plant that produces equipment for the army was to privatize (sell to the Chinese) the civilian part. The civilian part produced excavators, bulldozers, etc. – typical construction equipment. It is worth emphasizing that the most tragic period for the Polish plant under the management of Krzysztof Trofiniak was in the years 2008-2011. And it was a period of highway construction boom in Poland. However, the president did not take any action to profit from it”.
At the beginning of 2012, the civil part of Huta Stalowa Wola SA, which specialized in the production of construction machines, was privatized. It was bought for PLN 300 million by the Chinese concern Liu Gong, owner of Dressta, a global leader in the construction machinery market. The company was named Liu Gong Dressta Machinery Poland. At that time, the transaction was presented as necessary: Huta Stalowa Wola was in a very bad financial condition, and the money from the sale of the civilian part was to save the part producing for the army.
“The privatization itself took place in an atmosphere of euphoria. The plans and promises were impressive. The then president of the Industrial Development Agency, Wojciech Dąbrowski, declared that within 4 years the company would produce 10 times as many machines, i.e. 3,000 per year (as part of the state-owned enterprise HSW, it produced 300 pieces of construction machines per year). During the contract signing ceremony, the then president of Huta Stalowa Wola, Krzysztof Trofniak, said: “Champagne has never tasted so good to me”. The Chinese declared that there would be no employment reductions, but discipline in the plant would have to be increased. The investors declared that they would also establish a modern research and development center in Stalowa Wola, which would specialize in innovations for the construction machinery industry.
– said the informant at wpolityce.pl.
As we read in an article from 2017, “the center has not been built yet. It was not possible to increase production to this extent. A significant part of the crew was dismissed. The Chinese are closing production in Stalowa Wola.
In 2013, Trofiniak joined the management board of the newly established Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa. He lost his position two years later.
“Krzysztof Trofiniak found himself perfectly in private business and became the president of Fabryki Maszyn Lubaczów sp. z o. o. How the president of Fabryka Maszyn Lubaczów Trofiniak performed a miracle and arranged for the company a contract with… Liu Gong Dressta Machinery Poland, i.e. the civilian part of HSW, which he had previously sold to the Chinese! He doesn’t even try to hide it, because FM Lubaczów writes directly on its website: “our specialty is power hydraulics components and welding and mechanical processing activities. We are a key supplier of parts for LiuGong Dressta Machinery Poland in Stalowa Wola,” wpolityce.pl quotes informants.
Source: nielezna.pl, wpolityce.pl
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