COMPANY HISTORY

The main goal of the company is to penetrate all major foreign markets and further strengthen the position of a world-leading technology company. The main tools remain high product quality and long-term cooperation with customers.

• 1991

  The company was founded in Ostrava in December 1991. The reason for the establishment was the effort to use the experience of the founders in the field of engineering and technology

• 1993

  In 1993, the development of new types of continuous metal strip thickness gauges with micrometer resolution was started. All efforts were rewarded on September 22, 1993 with the grant of a patent for a Metal Strip Thickness Gauge . At the end of this year, the knowledge was transferred to production

• 1997

  Thanks to the growing demand on the domestic market, the company continued to develop dynamically and in a short time took a firm position on the market of measuring instruments. It is the only manufacturer of this type of instrument in the Czech Republic and one of the few major global companies that develops and manufactures contact continuous meters for metal strips

• 1998

  In 1998, UVB TECHNIK was transformed into a limited liability company UVB TECHNIK s.r.o., based in Ostrava. The partners are Ing. Tomáš Barták and Ing. Pavel Vitoslavský. A year later, it began exporting continuous metal strip thickness gauges abroad, first to Spain and gradually to almost all countries in the world with advanced industries

• 2000

  In 2000, the company moved to its own newly built production and administrative building in Hlučín, where new products for the metallurgical industry and their subsequent small-batch production are constantly being developed

• 2006

  In 2006, the construction of a production hall adjacent to the production and administrative building was completed, where the products are assembled and carefully tested before dispatch to customers

• 2009

  In 2009, cooperation was established with the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering , in the development of a belt flatness meter - a metal belt tension distribution meter

• 2014

  In 2014, the development of a non-contact metal strip thickness meter was started in cooperation with the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering

• 2018

  In 2018, cooperation was established with the VŠB Technical University of Ostrava, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, and the research institute Fraunhofer-Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Umformtechnik IWU Germany in solving a project called Smart Pin Holder for Sheet Metal Forming Presses

• 2019

  The company's development capacity was expanded - a new R&D center was built with EU financial support from the European Regional Development Fund

• 2020

  In 2020, UVB TECHNIK completed the development of a laser thickness gauge, using new technologies of four-point laser sensors with guaranteed accuracy without the effect of changes in the surface of the measured strip

• 2021

  In 2021, it launched a degreasing device designed for manufacturers and processors of metal strips. It is used to remove residues of oils and emulsions from metal strips on processing lines

• 2022

  In 2022, the company developed a digital touch display (HMI display) as a replacement for the mechanical device that had been used until then

• 2023

  In 2023, the company is completing work on the Smart Pin project, in collaboration with VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the German research institute Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung

• 2024

  In 2024, UVB Technik is working on a pinhole detector project. A pinhole detector is an imaging device that works by shining light onto a strip of paper and illuminating small holes (called "pinholes"), and this light is captured by detectors on the other side, which are able to detect holes/apertures as small as 5 µm