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90 years since the patenting of the first jet engine

January marks a notable aviation anniversary. On 16th January 1930, Englishman Frank Whittle patented the first jet engine. An aircraft powered by this engine took off for the first time in 1941...

PBS has managed to gain respect on the Indian market

Milan Touš, head of the Commercial and Economic Section of the Czech Embassy in New Delhi. (Article taken from the internal magazine Ozvěny)  I read one of the latest issues of the...

PBS provided a heating plant in the Polish town of Olsztyn with a wood chip boiler which helps to reduce emissions and operating costs

První brněnská strojírna, a.s. completed a significant contract in the Polish market in December. They handed over a 25MW hot water boiler for use in a heating plant in Olsztyn, Poland. This boiler...

PBS has received the TA CR Award for the best applied research project

Last week, the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA CR) awarded the seventh prize to the best applied research projects with a high contribution to society. At the TA CR Day, which is opened...

The PCD has managed to develop an alloy which increases the service life of spinner discs by about one third

The FV10699 grant project was completed at the end of June 2019 in the Precision Casting Division (PCD). It dealt with the development of new castings made of superalloys based on cobalt and nickel...

PBS was visited by its suppliers Thales, MESIT and Jihostroj including the representatives of Russian helicopter manufacturers

První brněnská strojírna (PBS), manufactured its 1000th auxiliary power unit (APU) Safir 5K/G MI this October. The unit is to be used in the Russian helicopters Mi-8, Mi-17 and Mi-171 which are the...

PBS celebrates success! 1000th produced and delivered APU Safir 5K/G MI

První brněnská strojírna Velká Bíteš (PBS) has supplied Safir 5K/G MI auxiliary power units (APU) for Russian Mi-8, Mi-17 and Mi-171 helicopters for 18 years. However, 20 years have already passed...

PBS participated at the aerocosmic expo MAKS 2019 and celebrated the time of 20 years from the beginning of cooperation with the manufacturers of Russian helicopters

První Brněnská Strojírna Velká Bíteš (PBS) has supplied the auxiliary power units (APU) for Russian helicopters Mi-8, Mi-17 and Mi-171 for 18 years. The company is going to produce a thousandth...

PBS has been developing cryogenic devices for over 30 years. This year, it will deliver the largest number of helium expansion turbines since the beginning of the '90s.

Since the late '80s, PBS has supplied cryogenic turbines for the liquefaction of helium. Helium gas is liquefied in liquefiers and used for cooling, for example, for magnetic resonance imaging...

PBS will produce the 1,000th PBS TJ100 jet engine this year. It is going to present its latest PBS TJ150 turbine engine at the IDET trade fair

První brněnská strojírna Velká Bíteš (PBS) is going to present its most successful and latest products for the aerospace industry at the IDET international defence and security trade fair in Brno...

Miloslav Kafka: We have been developing new driving units for unmanned aerial vehicles, but also new alloys with longer durability

The Internet television Televize Seznam recently invited Mr. Miloslav Kafka, Executive Director of PBS Group, to the studio at Burzovní palác. He discussed current trends with the Byznys Lab...

We have been assisting in energy supply for two centuries

The century of steam did not get its nickname by chance. The first industrial revolution meant a shift from manual production in workshops to large-scale machinery production. The power of rivers...