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Confidential © 2013 Aker Solutions Preferred partner
Preferred partner
Republic of Poland - POLSKA
Tranby, June 2013
Damian Karbowniczak | Senior Engineer, Materials Technology

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Where we are ?

Who we are ?

Major facts:
■ Population – 38 mln +( 20 mln outside around the world) – (34th place in
the world , 6th place in Europe )
■ Total area – 313 km2 - ( 69th place in World , 9th place in Europe ) –
Norway – 385 km2
■ Border with 7 Countries by land ( Germany, Czech republic , Slovakia,
Ukraine, Belarus , Lithuania, Russia ) + Sea border with Sweden
■ Capital city – Warsaw – (Warszawa) -1,7 mln citizens
■ Administative division – 16 voivodeships ( provinces )
■ Political sistem – Republic , parliamentary democracy
■ Religion – 90 % Catholic , Orthodox 2 % , others 8 %
■ Currency – 1 Złoty – 1 PLN
■ Nationalites inside – Poles 96,5 % , Ukrainians 0,6%, Germans 0,5% ,
Others ( Vietnamese , Belarusians, Armenians(Warsaw) Italian and
Spanish(Wroclaw,Krakow)
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History :
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■ 966 – Christianity by Mieszko I
■ 1025 – Boleslaw Chrobry – 1st
King
■ 1138 – Fragmentation of
Poland
■ 1226 – Teutonic
Knights(Germans) in Poland
■ 1364 – first university in
Poland – Cracow Academy by
Casimir III the Great
■ 1385 – Polish – Lithuania
union .
■ 1410 – Batlle of Grunwald

History :
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■ 16 th centaury – Poland’s
golden age ( ex. Copernicus)
■ 17th centaury – Crisis – war
with Sweden, Russia, Turkey ,
Cossacks
■ 1610 – Polish Army entered
Moscow
■ 1683 – Polish King Jan III
Sobieski stop Turkish Army in
Vienna(Austria)
■ 1791 – 1st modern constitution
in Europe

History :
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■ Partition of Poland – (1795-
1918 )
■ Suppression by Russia and
Prusia(Germany)
■ 1918 – after 123 year we get
independence
■ 1920 – the battle of Warsaw
with Russia ( Miracle at the
Vistula ) – General Jozef
Pilsudski

History
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■ II World War
■ 1 st September of 1939 – Germany
invade Poland – Blitzkrieg – Fast war
■ 17th of Sep 1939 of Soviet Union
Invade Poland
■ Germans Nazi killed 5 mln Polish
people
■ Soviet Russia killed 1 mln Polish
people
■ Auschwitz camp – Nazi exterminated
1,5 mln people
■ 1944 – Warsaw Uprising
■ 1945 – 1989 – Comunism System
„Closed Country”
■ 1980 – formation of „Solidarity”
■ 1989 – III rd republic
■ 2004 – we are full member of EU
union

Administration and regions
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■ 16 Voivodeships with major
cities
■ Regions – cultural and
historical names

Motorhighways and main road
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■ Grey – actual
motorhighways -2000km
■ Main roads – national roads
– 18 000km (5%)

Airports
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■ Oslo Gardemoen –
2012 -19 mln

Landscape and rivers
■ Wisła (Vistula) -1047 km
■ Odra – 742 km ( total 854 km)
■ Warta – 808 km
■ Bug – 587 km ( total 772km)
■ San – 443 km
■ Narew – 484
■ Notec – 388 km
■ Glomma -598 km

National parks and animals
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Major Cities
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■ Warszawa – Warsaw – 1,7 mln people – greater metropolitan 2,6 mln
■ Capital city since 1596
■ 9th most populous in Europe

Warszawa
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Krakow – Cracow – 0,76 mln people – 1,4mln metro. area
■ One of oldest city in Poland
■ Academic city
■ Science and artist city
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Krakow
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Wroclaw –Breslau–0,6 mln people – metro. area -1mln
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Wroclaw
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Poznan – 0,5 mln – metropolitan area 1,5 mln
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Tri city ( Gdansk, Gdynia,Sopot) – 1,5 mln people
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Gdynia
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20 Largest cities
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Attractive regions – Baltic sea
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Mazury – Mazuria – region with more than 4000 lakes
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Mountains – Tatry – over 2000 m
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People of Tatry
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Mountains - Sudety
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Mountains – Bieszczady
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Antiques cities
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Zamosc Torun
Sandomierz

Phenomenon : Castles - 419 ! + Palace – 2021 !
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Polish food
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Polish food
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Polish food

Famous Polish
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Ignacy Łukasiewicz – petroleum industry pioneer
■ 1856 – build the first oil refinery in the world !
■ 1853 – inventor of modern kerosene lamp (paraffin )
■ 1854 – constructor of first oil well in Poland
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Galicja well

Tadeusz Sendzimir – Edison in Metallurgy !
■ 1894 -1989
■ 120 patents in mining and metallurgy
■ Bessemer Gold Medal (1956) , Brinnell Gold Medal from Swedish
Royal Academy of Sciences in Stokholm (1974)
■ Galvanized steel strip with small amount of aluminium in zinc bath.
Coating with no iron-zinc alloy. High durability and resistance.
■ 90 % of world’s stainless steel in 80’s was produced by Sendzimir
process
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"I have been carrying family and the only my capital - a new method of zinc-plating to another coast of the Pacific"

Sports People
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■ Justyna Kowalczyk
■ 4th times won Tour the Ski
■ 3rd times won
FIS world Cup( year by year)
■ Adam Małysz
■ 4th times won FIS world Cup
■ 3rd times won
FIS world Cup( year by year)
■ Lukasz Podolski
■ 110 games for Germany
■ 46 goals
■ Arsenal Londyn
■ Polish heart – he woudl like
finish career in Poland .

Sports events
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TAKK!
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Thanks!
DZIĘKUJĘ !! ( DZiĘKI)

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