Company Profile

METRA BLANSKO a.s. branch plant Sumperk

Sumperk, , Czech Republic

Engineering Products - Manufacturer, Export / Import,
Proprietorship Firm Since 1911

In the year 1911 electric measuring instruments were started to be designed in a small workshop in Blansko, a town near Brno. It was the first workshop to produce these instruments in then Austro-Hungarian monarchy and one of the first workshops in Europe. It was a period of huge technical and industrial boom, when the steam and first electric engines could not do without electric measuring any more. One of the developers of the electric measuring instruments was engineer Erich Roucka, a distinguished Bohemian inventor. Under his guidance, the workshop quickly developed into a small factory. Workers grew familiar with the new technology in short time and they factory?s products became famous.

War supplies during the First World War enabled enlargement and modernization of the production. The number of staff expanded into 120. The end of the war linked to the termination of military orders forced a change to be made in the manufacturing schedule. The owner of the factory managed to go through this complicated period by introducing the implementation of supplemental production of kitchen scales, however he soon returned to the production of the measuring instruments. The market demanded more complicated and exact instruments such as laboratory gantry and in 1929 the first recording equipment. In second half of the 1920?s the company boomed when the experience which Erich Roucka gained during his travels in America in 1919 and 1921 started to show. He was the first in Europe to set up an assembly line production of automatic stokehold adjustment. They were named Roucek?s robots, with approval of Karel Capek, the famous Czech writer and invetor of the term robot. Measuring instruments and stokehold registers with the make ER Meter and boiler-room regulation with the ER symbols became famous not only in Europe but also overseas. They were used largely in workshops and power stations, during the construction and verification of electro-distributing systems and in various laboratories. Instruments for hard conditions of metallurgy and mining industry were also constructed. A great deal of this production was installed in deck equipment of ships and other complicated environments. The key person was always Erich Roucka, a man with admirable creative invention and working diligence who was able to connect the potential of new technologies with practice.

After 1990 our company has successfully gone through the phase of the transformation period. It was privatized by means of the coupon privatization and favourable conditions for the further development were created. The company is actively pursuing the development of abroad business activities. The cooperation with well-known international companies positively affects the prosperity of METRA BLANSKO a.S.

* Electrotechnic plant :
Electrotechnic plant is the significant developer in the field of electric measuring instruments. METRA BLANSKO Ltd. Is a company of a long, more than ninety years tradition , standing in this field. One of the most important business centre development programme is the multiple-function, revision equipment. These equipment corresponds to the current technical standards, ensures the measuring of a wide scale parameters, highly comfortable servicing, computers utilization in processing and presenting of the measuring results.

Revision equipment and controlling of electric objects and equipment, heavy current electric installations, earth conductors, and zemn?c? soustava, insulation resistance, are used in revisions, controls, assemblies and reconstructions in order to ensure correct functions and the service and user safety. Other programmes of the business centre include a number of analog and digital forcipate appliances and a wide range of built-in appliances ? electric quantity converters, panel and distributing appliances.

Plant Electrotechnic provides complex maintenance including calibration services. In the following develops, produces and provides the supply of high sophisticated products, designed for the use in industry, transportation, energetics or otherwise non-standard and difficult services.

* Plant Machinery :
In order to flexibly process production and technological evidence provided by a customer we use CAD technology as a part of preparations of production.

* Plant Plastic and Tools :
Tools produced in our company ensure high quality stampings, castings or punchings for really effective production in the long term. The level of constructional solutions, optimal serviceable life of these tools, harmonic deliveries of stampings in large series or petite work-pieces in small series, production of mouldings, rationalization of utility features.

* Plant Special Projects :
Direct people with an experience in the cooperation assembly
Application and implemented certificate ISO 9002 since 1994 and ISO 14001 since 1999.
Flexibility in order fulfillments
Accuracy and credibility
Knowledge of foreign languages

Products :
TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT AND REGULATION capillary and bimetallic thermostats, thermal cut-outs bimetallic thermometers, heat cost allocators, capillary manometers and thermometers, capillary thermomanometers. * Plant Electrotechnic Production range Electronic measuring instruments Technological processes control systems Tachographs Audio SMT * Plant Machinery We provide an integrated service from burning formed plots, stamping, bending, punching on CNC machines, machining, welding and their surface adjustment inclusive painting till up assembling listings for our customers. * Plant Plastic and Tools The Plant Plastics and Tools is an independent production unit, which provide the basic operations in construction and production of tools for die casting of plastic materials inclusive consultancy in area of solving shapes and characters of stampings from thermoplastics. It provides production of these stampings and in case of need theirs final adjustment. It disposes of needed capacities for these purposes, completed by other proofed workplaces for encompassment accurate requirements. * Plant Special Projects Plant provides assembly, testing and deliveries of laser cartridges for the company Lexmark Int. SA Plant supports technical, logistic, check and personal activities related to assembly. Partnership is based on longterm contracts.