Wprost Eagle for Lubelski Węgiel Bogdanka
The company received an award in the Sustainable Development Leader category.
The Wprost Eagles awards are given in recognition of exceptional activity in the area of entrepreneurship, local government activity and promotion of the region. We reward owners of businesses originating from individual regions that expand their operations throughout Poland and bring innovation to the market.
The trophy in the Sustainable Development Leader category for Lubelski Węgiel Bogdanka was received by the company's President of the Management Board Kasjan Wyligała, who said:
I am collecting this prestigious award on behalf of our employees, the miners of Lubelski Węgiel Bogdanka. The strength of Lubelski Węgiel Bogdanka is its people, and it is to them that we owe the greatest thanks. Together we create the economic engine of the Lublin region.
Lubelski Węgiel Bogdanka S.A. is a leading hard coal producer in Poland that stands apart from its peers in terms of its modern and efficient mining. It is one of the largest Polish hard coal mines. Lubelski Węgiel Bogdanka S.A. chiefly conducts mining operations in terms of hard coal extraction, enrichment and sales. It supplies this raw material mainly to industrial offtakers. Supply contracts are long-term, and the product is sold to the commercial power sector and the industrial power sector.
The company has been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since June of 2009. In August 2022, Lubelski Węgiel Bogdanka S.A. returned to listing on the WIG-ESG Index.
Since October of 2015 Bogdanka has been a member of the Enea Group, the second largest player on Poland’s electrical power market in terms of the generation of electricity, which manages the entire value chain on the electricity market ranging from fuel to the generation of electricity, distribution, sales (supply) and customer service.