Huta Częstochowa without changing the owner. The tender was canceled

The tender for the sale of the Huta Częstochowa estate, valued at nearly PLN 227 million, was to take place on Monday. However, as spokesman of the District Court in Częstochowa, judge Dominik Bogacz, two envelopes with submitted offers were not opened, but The meeting was postponed indefinitely.

– Earlier, the trustee decided that he would ask the Minister of Defense or would use the rights arising from art. 311 Bankruptcy Law – a spokesman for the Częstochowa court told.

One of the points of this article predicts that “The State Treasury represented by the Minister of National Defense has the right to buy assets for conducting business in the field of defense and state security. “

The Minister of Defense may then present to the judge -commercial on time: week from the date of notification – an opinion or within thirty days from the date of notification – a declaration of exercising the right to buy out.

The trustee's question is related to entering Liberty Częstochowa in bankruptcy, the owner of Huta Częstochowa, on list of strategic companies and in this way to protect the state. Council of Ministers adopted on February 11 this year. The amendment to the regulation on the list of entities subject to protection and the competent control bodies prepared by the Minister of State Assemptions.

“The company is important for state security – as the only metallurgical plant in the country, it has technological capacity to produce hardened thick sheets for the needs of the defense industry. It also has one of the largest production halls in the EU, which allows, among others, the renovation of military equipment” – It was emphasized in the KPRM announcement of February 11.

Huta Częstochowa so far operates based on the assets of Liberty Częstochowa sp. Z oo in bankruptcy. An agreement with the trustee on the lease of Huta's estate was concluded on November 19 last year. Węglokoks, which then on January 20 this year. He restored production in a steel plant, and on February 4 in the rolling mill of thick sheets. Węglokoks – as a tenant – had the right to pre -emption and declared his will to buy Huta's assets.

As the vice president of Węglokoku and the president of Huta Częstochowa Adrian Sienicki said after the start of the steel plant, the plant was supposed to produce about 10,000 in January. tons of steel (in terms of launching then rolling mill) and increase production to 45 thousand. tons per month around the middle of the year. The production capacity of the rolling mill exceeds 40 thousand. tons of sheets with a thickness of 6 to 150 mm.

At the end of October last year, the Częstochowa court finally dismissed the declaration of bankruptcy of the current owner of the steelworks, Liberty Częstochowa. This is the bankruptcy of another private owner of the plant. Production stood in it at the end of 2023, but the employer paid the crew of remuneration by the end of August. Węglokoks, after leasing the Huta property, regulated the arrears and restored production.