Dynamically developing enterprise with modern management
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AC Joint Stock Company is a dynamically developing enterprise with modern management, specializing in manufacture of high-tech electronic components for automotive industry. AC SA is a leading company in Poland and an important player in the global scale in the scope of production and supplies of high-quality electronic and mechanical modules for car gas installations. An important aspect of the company operations is also production of electric wire groups for automotive industry.
A strong position of the Company in the global market and in the car gas installation sector is the result of nearly thirty years of experience in manufacturing of proprietary, innovative products and sales in the demanding markets. |
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| STAG the best purchased brand |
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AC SA is the largest and the oldest Polish producer of microprocessor controllers for LPG/CNG gas. STAG is the main product of the Company and probably the best recognisable and purchased brand of electronic components for car gas installations in Poland and abroad. The Company delivers almost 300 000 electronic components annually. In 2008, the Company employed over 300 persons. Production area covers 13 thousand m2.
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Research and Development Department
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As AC SA has its own Research and Development Department, the company regularly introduces new products with innovative technological solutions to its commercial offer. The Company has been trying to join the industry European leaders in the sector of new technologies development and manufacturing of technically advanced products.
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The products introduced by the Company meet global quality and environment protection standards and fulfil the requirements of valid technical norms. AC SA implements each year research projects on approximately 80 designs and prototypes of new products, from which over 40 are later commercially produced and sold. Modern IT tools, such as Altium Designer application based on DXP platform, are used during products design stage. The use of the application allows for designing printed circuit boards (PCB) on two levels - creating a physical platform using discrete elements, combined on a PCB and creating the ‘imbedded intelligence” of the product, using the programmable elements, such as microprocessors and software. |
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| State of the art machinary and equipment |
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The Company owns state of the art machinery and equipment. Most components are made in wholly automatic, precise and efficient technological lines. In order to secure its leading position in the industry, AC SA regularly upgrades its machines and equipment. AC SA acquired 26 modern machines for the total value of over PLN 8 million last year. Production in AC SA is organised in the four main production departments: Electronics, SMD, Electric Wire Groups and Mechanical Department. Assembly of electronic components in AC SA is realised in two ways: The THT Through-Hole Technology and SMT Surface Mount Technology. The Company has two modern lines for SMT with the total capacity of 80 000 components per hour.
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The technological lines are equipped with state of the art fully automatic machines and equipment: ERSA N-Wave 330, Speedline MPM Accuflex and Momentum, FUJI NXT, ERSA HOTFLOW 7.The applied technologies allow for single and double sided mounting of electronic components as well as by spray soldering and with the use of glue. Casings for electronic components are made of aluminium or plastics. The Company owns modern injection presses made by the Austrian company ENGEL, with the injection capacity of 40, 60 and 90 tons and volume from 100 to 250 cm3. The machines can use composite moulds with hot canals and hydraulic rods of minimum height 200 mm. AC SA manufactures details from polypropylene, polyamides, ABS and reinforced plastics for own production and in cooperation. The department also uses extruding machines for plastics and
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a press for rubber with the load of 220 bar and maximum vulcanisation temperature of 190ºC. Electrodes and moulds cavities are made by modern, numerically controlled Swiss machine tools MIKRON HSM 500. These machines have a very high rate of repeatability of manufactured details and mapping precision to 1 micron. Milling can be done with materials of high hardness HRC, including graphite. During the processing, diamond tools with high rotation speed up to 42 000 rpm are used. AC SA tool shop is equipped with electro-erosion machines and wire electro-erosion machines made by the Japanese company SODICK. Erosion process can be applied to any type of steel and non-ferrous metals.
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| Maximum thickness of an eroded metal piece is 230 mm. In the Wire Groups Department, groups of cables are prepared from 60 to 10 000 mm length and from 0.35 to 4.0 mm2 cross-section. Production is realised in automatic production lines: Komax Zeta 633, Komax Alpha 477, TYCO Ampomator, Komax Kappa 220 and 225, STRUNK, Onda-Taper, operating in the TOPNET network. From 2 to 3 different types of tips, seals and relevant prints are applied on groups of wires during a single technological process. All machines have full crimping and seal application control as well as integrated tools for measuring the tip crimp height and tensile strength. All manufactured wire groups are computer tested. |
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| Very well developed distribution and service point network |
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| The Company has a very well developed distribution and service point network all over Poland. Products of AC SA can be fund in all major automotive wholesale centres and reputable service workshops. The Company supplies each year nearly 200 000 microprocessor controllers for LPG/CNG gas injection installations and 100 000 other electronic components for automotive industry. The Company revenue increased by 400% during the last three years. Controllers offered by AC Joint Stock Company are distributed in Poland and, among others, in Austria, the UK, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the USA, Portugal, Bulgaria, Czech, Estonia, Greece, India, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldavia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Hungary and Belarus. Over 50% of the Company revenue is generated by export sales. |
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| Team of highly qualified specialists |
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| AC SA employees make a team of highly qualified specialists, graduates of Polish and foreign renowned business, humanist and technical schools. The Company employees increase their skills at postgraduate and doctoral studies. The Company organises a number of trainings for both its employees and commercial personnel, technicians and the users of AC brand products. |
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High quality of the offered products
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AC SA policy focuses on the supreme objective, which is delivery of innovative, top quality products, which fulfil customers’ requirements and expectations. The main advantage of the Company products is their reliability and safety of use. New products and materials used in production process undergo rigorous tests in the research laboratory.
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| Numerous awards and distinctions confirm high quality of the offered products and excellent financial condition and dynamic development of the Company. In 2007, AC SA was ranked first, as the most innovative production enterprise in the region of Białystok. The Company also received the Podlaskie Province Governor Award in „The highest share of exports in sales in 2006” and the prestigious „Business Ambassador” award. In 2008, the Company was awarded the „Business Gazelle” distinction and the prize for the third most innovative company of the Podlaskie region. Already one million of customers worldwide use the products of AC Joint Stock Company. |
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