HIGHLIGHTS OF COMPANY HISTORY
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1946 |
Two engineers from Gdańsk set up a small workshop company named "MORPAK" Gasket Factory, in Sopot 15 employees manually produced head gaskets, exhaust manifold gaskets for automotive and railway applications, the basic material they used was asbestos paper board |
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1950 |
As most private enterprises in Poland at the time MORPAK is taken over by National Industry Management and moved to Gdańsk parts of MORPAK production range were obligatorily moved to other factories in the country (Simmer rings, copper gaskets, asbestos-copper rings, spiral wound gaskets) |
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1953 |
Technological and production department is created, also mechanical - tooling house beginning of production of rubber-metal Simmer rings and spiral wound gaskets (for ship boilers, machine tools, tractors, farming and building machinery) |
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1968 |
Beginning of production for FIAT 125 |
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1968 |
National Union of the Automotive Industry in Warsaw takes charge of MORPAK and changes its name to POLMO-MORPAK further investments take place: drill, ventilation to prevent from asbestos pollution, feeders |
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1978 |
Manufacture of gaskets for LEYLAND engines based on new technology (gluing asbestos paper with metal core followed by multiple varnishing) MORPAK starts building a new plant |
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1982 |
Purchase of a paper plant in Łapino and its modernisation beginning of production of asbestos-caoutchouc paper used for gasket board |
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1991 |
First trials of non-asbestos production |
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1994 |
Ownership transformation into limited liability company |
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1997 |
Beginning of ISO 9001 Management System implementation |
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1998 |
ISO 9001 certification (march 1998) further work and investments |
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2000 |
Plans of ISO 14 000 environment Management System implementation currently underway |
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2001 |
ISO 9001:2000 certification as well as ecological menagement system ISO 14001 implementation |
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2002 |
Running production first assembly head gaskets for "ZAZ" Ukraine |
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2004 |
ISO/TS 16949 certification |
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2008 |
ISO/TS 16949 and ISO 14001 certyfication |
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2008 |
Acquisition of majority shareholding of the company belonging to the Industrial Development Agency by AUTO LAND Sp. z o. o. |
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2010 |
Transfer of production from Gdańsk to Łapino |
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2010 |
Acquisition of production and beginning of Wytwórnia Uszczelek’’MORPAK” Paweł Jaworski |