From Prešov to Rzeszów it's 90 minutes by car on the new S19. Geographically closer than most Slovak regional capitals. Rzeszów is for us the most likely entry point into the Polish market — Podkarpackie and the Prešov Region are effectively one cross-border industrial entity, only today separated by the formalities of the posted-worker regime, A1 paperwork and UDT certification.
Aviation Valley — the strongest aviation cluster in Central Europe
Aviation Valley Rzeszów is a cluster that over the past twenty years has grown from the former PZL Rzeszów (Polskie Zakłady Lotnicze) into the strongest aero engine centre in Central Europe. Pratt & Whitney Rzeszów today owns PZL as its European division — producing PT6, PW100, PW200 turboshaft engines for helicopters and regional aircraft. Lockheed Martin has production capacities in the area, GE Aviation operates its engine business via its EngineeringDesignCenter Polska division, Hispano-Suiza (Safran Group) has local production of gearboxes for the Airbus A350, and MTU Aero Engines delivers sub-assemblies for the Boeing 787 and A320neo programmes.
For an integrator that means two worlds in one region. First, classic aviation production with EASA Part-21 (production organisation approval) and EASA Part-145 (maintenance organisation approval) certification — a world where every technical process has a written procedure and every procedure has a calibration document with a date of issue and date of expiry. Second, semiconductor and network infrastructure surrounding the production — engine testing requires high-speed data acquisition (National Instruments PXI, dSPACE), fatigue-life modelling requires HPC clusters, and every production hall has integrated IoT sensors for real-time tracking of workpieces.
For us the relevant combination is especially **Automation + Industry + Data Centres**. Our Sondermaschinenbau specialisation (special-purpose machines for aerospace structure assembly) fits exactly the segment where the Aviation Valley supplier orbit looks for agile Central European integrators for smaller projects of assembly fixtures, inspection stations and test cells. For the data centre layer — Asseco Poland (HQ Rzeszów, Poland's largest software house) runs its own data centres, and Pratt & Whitney has internal HPC for CFD simulations of engines.
UDT in the aviation world
Aviation workshops in PL must meet, besides EASA, also UDT (Urząd Dozoru Technicznego) certification for pressure and lifting equipment in halls — typically engine transport lifts, hydraulic presses for blade assembly, autoclaves for composite parts, vacuum chambers. For a Slovak supplier the UDT process is an additional layer over the SK process: every such device, before being commissioned, must pass UDT inspection through a certified Polish UDT-rzeczoznawca, and undergo an annual periodical check. For us that means pre-contract verification: if the delivery includes such equipment, we look for a local UDT partner before signing the contract.
Asseco Poland and the software side
Asseco Poland with HQ in Rzeszów is the largest Central European software house — developing core banking systems, ERP solutions, and increasingly AI components for fintech and healthtech segments. For us Asseco is interesting through the **Software and AI + Data Centres** overlap. AI clusters for internal R&D (LLM fine-tuning, code-assistant tooling, RAG systems for internal KB) are a segment where our specialisation in NVIDIA HGX and Blackwell B200 infrastructure, Mellanox NDR networking and Slurm/Pyxis orchestration fits exactly what Asseco and similar Polish software houses are starting to build.
Borg Warner Jasionka and the automotive supplier orbit
Borg Warner in Jasionka (industrial park near Rzeszów) produces turbochargers for the entire European automotive orbit — VW Group, BMW, Mercedes, Stellantis. For an integrator it's a classic Tier-1 automotive supplier segment: VW Konzernstandard audit, IATF 16949 quality management, MES integration via Apriso, and OPC UA backbone between lines. Our specialisation in special-purpose machines (Sondermaschinenbau), robotic cells (KUKA, ABB, FANUC) and injection lines (Engel, KraussMaffei, Yushin) has natural application here.
Our commuting relationship
From Prešov it's 90 minutes via S19. That's less than from Prešov to Bratislava, less than from Prešov to Brno. Rzeszów is realistically a one-day trip without accommodation for us, and most site visits can be handled within a single working day with a return for dinner at home. For long-term projects with a weekly mode, Rzeszów is close enough for Monday-to-Friday accommodation with weekend returns.
For official communication (PIP Rzeszów for posted-worker registration, the local UDT office, the voivodship building authority) we have actively sought local contacts — without them UDT certification and Prawo budowlane proceedings aren't efficiently feasible.
Conclusion — actively opening the market
For Rzeszów our position is clear: not yet a delivered project, but with the strongest geographical advantage in PL. We're actively looking for the first client in the Aviation Valley supplier orbit, in the Asseco / Borg Warner segment, or in the broader Podkarpackie industrial cluster. For first contracts we offer references from our Slovak portfolio (Magna Kechnec, automotive injection line Bratislava) and the aviation segment (LOK Košice non-security zones). Communication in Polish through the Slovak base + project documentation with technical translation.