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Dear Readers!
The approaching end of the year is a good time for reflections. This year has been a difficult one and full of various turbulences for the Association, which influenced our organisational, educational and editorial activities. This year had also brighter sides, since due to the Jubilee of the 75 years of our Association the year will end by the XXXI-st General Convention of Delegates, during which the new authorities will be elected for the future years. The Polish Foundrymen’s Technical Association was founded in the final years of the interwar period, owing to the great enthusiasm of a small group of people who wanted to create the organisation integrating the Polish foundry men. This was a very important activity for the Polish economy, since the intellectual and material contribution of foundry men in the development of machine building industry, everyday items and artistic castings, which are keeping us company. It is difficult to imagine functioning of the modern society and country without such items. Currently, we are slowly rebuilding the former basic structures and more and more often opening new ones. The consciousness of the need of the community integration, as an important factor in the activity of each company is on the rise. I hope that next years will be auspicious for our colleagues, regardless of the expected worldwide crisis. Foundry men constitute a strong society, which for sure will be successful even in difficult times. I would like to thank all Colleagues for the immense efforts to conduct operations for our Association and to assure its international recognition and among the Polish engineering associations, several enterprises and scientific - research units as well as among not numerous, but important, central offices. 75 years passed away as one day, leaving the accumulated experience allowing to look ahead with an optimism. I wish all of you to be doing well in the successive years, both in the private and professional life. Please, remain faithful to ideas, which were at the bases of the creation of our Association and its 75 years of activity.

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Polish Foundrymen's Association started its new website. You can find there all information about association's activities and Polish foundry. Invite towww.stowarzyszenie-stop.pl

DEAR PRESIDENTS, DIRECTORS,

In connection with certain vagueness concerning an authorization to express opinions on petitions presented by enterprises, which apply for the so-called technological credit, investment financing by the E.U. structural funds, especially from the Sector Operational Program and the Integrated Operational Program of Regional Development, we are hereby informing:
The Act on 'Certain Forms of Innovations Supporting' of 29th July 2005, the Journal of Law -2005, No 179, par. 1484 and the Journal of Law -2006, No 107, par. 723, Chapter a, Art 5, point 3, sub-point 2, states:

Opinions prepared by Scientific institutions, Research and Development Centres (mentioned in Art 12) or Scientific and Technological Associations of all-Poland range, which field of interest is relevant to the technological investment, for which the technological credit is to be granted, confirming that the technology on which the planned investment will be based is the new technology - are valid opinions.

Technical Association (STOP) is fully competent and entitled to express opinions on applications concerning the widely understood foundry problems (technology, production, machines and equipment, innovations, investments).
Thus, we would like to encourage the Managements of foundries and co-operating with them enterprises to take advantage of STOP services.

Interested institutions and persons are requested to call at the address:
STOP Secretariat
Zakopiańska 73, 30-418 Kraków
Tel./fax: (012) 26 18 251

DEAR PRESIDENTS, DIRECTORS OF THE POLISH FOUNDRY ENTERPRISES

We are hereby informing that in the project of the Regulation, changing the heretofore in force Regulation, concerning classification of professional training the Minister of National Education named the following foundry vocations:

• foundry technologist,

• foundry moulder

• pattern-maker

• operator of foundry machines and equipment.

Sending the above information, we are of the opinion that the Foundry Managements should put forward to the Educational Authorities (Local Governments) from their locality written requests to organize the foundry classes already in the school year of 2007/2008.

The Secretariat of the Central Board of our Association will forward the request on this subject directly to the Ministry of National Education.