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20 years in the heart of Europe POLAND AT THE CROSSROADS IN THE HEART OF EUROPE / THE STORY OF ESTABLISHING A PRESENCE EWELINA KLIZNER Manager of GH POLAND / MARCIN CISZKIEWICZ Production Manager GH POLAND GH REALTIME THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE LATEST PROJECTS / INNOVATION: THE ELECTRIC MARINE BOAT HOIST / IÑAKI MAIZ CEO of Ikusi

p.4 AT THE CROSSROADS IN THE HEART OF EUROPE. p.6 THE EXPANSION TO THE EAST p.10 INTERVIEW EWELINA KLIZNER Manager of GH POLAND MARCIN CISZKIEWICZ Production Manager GH POLAND p.16 THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE. Manu Vázquez Torío p.19 - Customer: GRI TOWERS GALICIA - The team: ASIER MUJIKA & YOSU EZPELETA 20 LATEST PROJECTS INNOVATION 22 THE ELECTRIC MARINE BOAT HOIST 24 IÑAKI MAIZ INTERVIEW

INNOVATION, INTERNATIONALISATION AND REAFFIRMATION OF OUR VALUES AS MANUFACTURERS Polonia Jose Antonio Guerra CEO of the GH Group ince 2008 we have not been able to sit down to calmly reflect and make plans in the medium-long term. First it was the financial crisis after the fall of Lehman Brothers in 2008, then the Brexit that destabilised Europe. WE WANT TO DELIVER A RELIABLE, COMPETITIVE AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE PRODUCT TO THE CUSTOMER. With hardly any time to digest the maelstrom of events, COVID-19 and the inability to find rational responses to the unknown came as another shock. The...

POLAND Warsaw Wrocław Krakow he Republic of Poland is a country in Central Europe, one of the twentyseven sovereign states that make up the European Union, a democratic state based on the rule of law whose form of government is the parliamentary republic. Its territory, with its capital in Warsaw, covers an area of 312,696 km2 (Spain has an area of 500,000 km2). It is a unitary state with 16 subdivisions or regions, bordered by the Baltic Sea to the north, with the largest area in the north being part of the great European plain and the southern part of the country encompassing the Sudeten,...

The creation of the nation is frequently identified with the adoption of Catholicism by its monarch Mieszko I in the year 966, when it covered an area similar to that of modern Poland. The Kingdom of Poland was formed in 1025, and in 1569 it cemented a long association with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by signing the Union of Lublin, which established the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Commonwealth collapsed in 1795, and the Polish territory was divided between Russia, Prussia and Austria. Poland regained its independence after World War I as the Second Polish Republic but was occupied...

THE EXPANSION TO THE EAST LOOKING FOR NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN THE ENLARGEMENT OF EUROPE. GH’s adventure in the nation hardest hit by recent history began in 2003. In 2003, GH had already taken its first steps in its international expansion. The company’s initial incursions into France, Portugal, Mexico and Brazil were just beginning to shape the design of a new company aware that the national market could not be relied on to support future development. There were commercial structures in many countries that had been established in the 1990s. They were companies that represented GH in export...

GH’S NEEDS WERE MATCHED BY A GENERAL ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THERE WAS A DEGREE OF EUPHORIA DUE TO THE INCORPORATION OF NEW COUNTRIES INTO AN EXPANDING EUROPEAN MARKET. THE OLD EUROPE EXPANDS TO THE EAST AND GH HAD TO BE THERE All this coincided with the construction of the dream of the old, united Europe, which also very much gained in importance with the integration into the Common Market of the Eastern European countries which for five decades had been under the dominion of the former Soviet Union. The first steps in this GH strategy were taken by a youthful Lander Gibelalde, who...

We had to wait for the bankruptcy process to be completed and for the land to be free and clear of all encumbrances for GH to make the investment and this was done with the invaluable help of Mrs. Danuta, who was the previous manager of the company that had been based on the plot. Vicente did a special “audit”, with his particular methods and his “in situ” calculations of the factories capabilities and its characteristics. Suffice to say that none of the Poles who observed his auditing methods had ever seen a gentleman of his age so courageous, daring and stubborn as he climbed on the rails...

And now, Ewelina KIizner-Ciszkiewicz, who received her training during the actual development of GH in Poland, has been managing the company since November 2015, reinforcing all the points that her predecessors identified and defined. Ewelina now has a nice challenge ahead of her. European funds never arrived in the quantities that were promised. Poland is still something of a “rogue” partner in terms of complying with the demands of the European club and this is compounded by its tortuous history of suffering from the warfare of the 20th century, to which is now added the concern of being...

POLAND Ewelina Klizner Manager of GH POLAND She has been the manager of GH Poland since November 2015 and is convinced of the GH Group’s ability to adapt to the challenges posed, despite the war being so close. aving the war so near the borders of Poland is taking its toll on Ewelina, and she is one of the most courageous people we know when it comes to facing the difficulties of the working day, to proposing solutions to problems and to always finding a creative way out of every situation that arises. Her contributions in this interview show us Ewelina at her most thoughtful, but also...

“THE CONSEQUENCES ARE NOT EASY TO CALCULATE, BUT THEY WILL HAVE AN IMPACT AND NOT ONLY IN POLAND” “IT’S NOT VERY EASY TO SLEEP WHEN CLOSE TO YOUR BORDERS YOU CAN SEE THE FIGHTING” Ewelina KIizner-Ciszkiewicz has been manager of the GH plant in Poland since 2015. - First of all, Ewelina, what is the situation in the country with a war in Ukraine that is right on your border? The current situation is pretty tense. During the first weeks of the attack, Poland gave refuge to more than 4,000,000 displaced people, giving them a safe place to stay for the first 4 months. Now, from July onwards, we...