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In year 2005 TOWIMOR
celebrated 100 years of its Traditions and Experience.
The company history and
development started in 1905, when the factory was founded by Toruń
Inland Water Authorities as a repair workshops for small river
vessels. Since then, the Company was continuously connected with
shipbuilding industry, and even bad times of wars did not
inter-rupt activities of the Company, which developed and expanded
all the time.
Based on own designs series
production of deck equipment for sea-going ships has been started
since year 1967.
Today Towimor SA employs 470 people
and is a renown supplier of modern deck machinery and cranes. The
company has produced more than 15 000 winches of various type and
destination, and more than 1 000 cranes, which were installed on
board of more than 3000 ships of many flags.
The most important dates and facts
in TOWIMOR S.A. history.
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1905
Beginnings of the company.Repair workshops for small river vessels with 40-60 employees.
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1960
In this year construction of
a new factory at Starotoruńska 5 in Toruń has been started
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1962
Delivery of first cargo winches of 3t and 5t pull
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1965
The company took the name TOWIMOR |
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1967
Beginning of based on own
designs series production of fishing winches, cargo winches,
derrick booms and anchor-mooring winches
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1968
Export of first cargo winches to Denmark and Soviet Union
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1970

Delivery of first
deck cranes with hosting capacity of 5t |
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1973
First shipsets of anchor-mooring winches exported to Soviet Union and derrick booms
to Romania |
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1975
Export of first trawl winches to Soviet Union
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1977
Export of first deck cranes to Bulgary
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1980
Towimor staff actively participated in strikes, which
gave the beginnings for "SOLIDARITY" Trade Union and political
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1992
TOWIMOR was privatized and transformed to Joint Stock Company |
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1996
The company Quality
Management System has been certified by Germanischer Lloyd and
Polish Register of Shipping as complying with ISO 9001 standard
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2003
The Towimor SA Integrated Quality, Environment and
Occupational Health and Safety
Management System was certified
for the compliance with standards ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:
1996 and PN-N-18001:1999
Signing of first contracts
for delivery of electrically driven
anchor-mooring winches to Shipyard in South Korea
Establishment of the company TOWIMOR KOREA CORPORATION
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2005 Celebrations of 100 years' anniversary
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