HISTORY

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.

1905
Beginnings of the company.Repair workshops for small river vessels with 40-60   employees.

1960  
In this year construction of a new factory at Starotoruńska 5 in Toruń has been started

1962
  Delivery of first cargo  winches of 3t and 5t pull

 

1965
The company took the  name TOWIMOR

1967
Beginning of based on own designs series production of fishing winches, cargo  winches, derrick booms and anchor-mooring winches

1968  
Export of first cargo winches to Denmark and Soviet Union

1970
Delivery of first deck cranes with hosting capacity of 5t  

1973
First shipsets of anchor-mooring winches  exported to Soviet Union and derrick booms to Romania  

1975  
Export of first trawl winches to Soviet Union

1977  
Export of first deck cranes to Bulgary

1980
 
Towimor staff actively participated in strikes, which gave the beginnings for "SOLIDARITY" Trade Union and political changes in Poland

1992
 
TOWIMOR was privatized  and transformed to Joint Stock Company 

1996
The company Quality Management System has been certified by Germanischer Lloyd and Polish Register of Shipping as complying with ISO 9001 standard

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

2005 Celebrations of 100 years' anniversary 

 
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