The Company "Firma Codogni" sp.j. (general partnership) was established in 1990 based on an existing metal-processing plant. At the start of its activity, the Company aimed at entering into trade relations in Poland and abroad, trading mainly in metal products.

In 1994, after restructuring the Company, its new management made a strategic decision on its further activities and future business profile. Trading has been considerably reduced while the Company focused on the manufacture of steel products. It has been decided to expand own production of steel balls used in milling and crushing processes for Polish mining, power and cement industries.

At the end of 1997, the first production line for forged and rolled balls, purchased in Italy, was put into operation. The production line consisted of a pusher gas furnace to heat the charge, a cold heading machine and a set of rollers ending in a quenching/hardening line. The capacity of this production line amounted to 3500-4000 tons of steel balls per year. This line produced steel balls with diameters between 30 and 80 mm.

In the same year, our Company acquired the status of a protected work company, after meeting the terms of the law on rehabilitation and employment of the disabled.

Taken in the early 90s of last century, working with KGHM Polish Copper SA resulted in the decision to start forging the next line of bullets. In 1998, a 1000-ton press line based on induction heating started to produce balls of 80 to 100 mm diameter; in 2000, another press line with similar parameters was put into service. The total production capacity of these new lines amounts to approx. 5000 tons of balls per year.

Our activity on the grinding media market for industry, started in the 90's last century, resulted in close co-operation with buyers of steel balls from all over Poland. At present, Codogni has 75 employees and sells its products to many customers, of which KGHM Polska Miedz S.A. is a leading customer. The broad assortment of produced balls, with diameters from 30 to 100 mm, meets the expectations and requirements of domestic buyers; optimization of production costs and application of cost-reducing technologies allows us to maintain competitive prices and to improve the quality of our products.

In 2005, we plan to have launched another line ball forging a capacity of 2500 Mg. This allowed us to achieve a total capacity of nearly 10,000 ton of finished product . This new production line will extend our range of ball diameters up to 120 mm.

In 2009, we sold nearly 7.500 tons of forged and rolled steel balls, and in 2010 nearly 9.400 tons, which puts our Company in the forefront of production of grinding media in Poland. Our own fleet of trucks enables us to supply products at any desired location in Poland.