“We manage the entire company in such a way as to prepare for possible risks. We were prepared for the energy crisis, now we are preparing for the coming recession,” says the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Malfini Radek Veselý on the roof of the Ústí headquarters.
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The roof is densely covered with solar panels that supply the building with energy. Malfini has an even larger solar park at its giant warehouse in Ostrava. “In 2019, we installed a photovoltaic power plant with an output of less than 300 kWp at our warehouse in Ostrava. We are self-sufficient. Together with the gas cogeneration units, they will produce as much energy for us as we will use there,” Veselý describes in the summer series SZ Byznys Halíře do platých.
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And there will be more solar panels in storage this year so that they can sell more energy to the grid. Their economic return has been radically shortened with the high price of energy. When solar panels were installed in Ostrava for 18 million, the investment was supposed to be recouped in eight years. “Given today’s energy prices, it can be shortened to four years,” reckons Veselý.
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Pennies make plates
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A super box that saves money
Nevertheless, energy is not wasted in Malfini. The gates of the warehouse, from which the trucks take away bales of textiles every day, are equipped with so-called air collars. “The truck pulls up to the gate, an air-filled collar surrounds it, which prevents heat from escaping from the gate,” describes Adamec.
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Several trucks filled with work clothes, sweatshirts and tricks leave the Ostrava warehouse every day, some of them made from PET bottles. Heading to 35 European countries. Malfini uses external partners for transport, it is said that it is not possible to save much on fuel. At least it motivates customers with discounts to order more goods at once, so the trucks don’t run half-empty.
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Everything is transported in cardboard boxes, the price of which has already been driven up by the pandemic. And the paper filling, thanks to which the cargo does not spoil, is another item that the company tries to minimize. “We are talking in the order of hundreds of tons, any saving is very economically interesting,” says Veselý.
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That is why they pack as economically as possible in the Ostrava warehouse. “The best waste is the one that is not created,” thinks one of the company’s bosses. “The system box brought about a big saving in filling materials. We have 15 of them and the system will offer pickers the optimal crate so that it does not have to be filled with any filler material. Trifle. But within a year, it will save a considerable amount of waste,” describes one of the heads of the manufacturer.
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Infinity
- a leading manufacturer of advertising textiles and work clothes
- exports to 35 European countries
- last year the company had a turnover of CZK 1.8 billion and sold more than 20 million pieces of advertising textiles and work clothes
- in 1999, the company under the original name Adler was founded by Martin Hausenblas
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