Prague , Czech Republic - 20 June 2005 - Mavel, a.s. announced the successful commissioning in May 2006 of the Zawada hydro electric plant on the Odra River in Southern Poland. The plant is owned by HCS Wroclaw, Spolka z.o.o.

The Zawada plant utilizes two horizontal Kaplan turbines with runner diameters of 3000 mm and has installed power of 1.5 MW. The flow is 43 cubic meters per second and the head ranges from 1.7 to 2.5 meters.

Mavel is a Czech Republic-based manufacturing and engineering company focusing on production of turbines for hydro-electric power plants from 25 kW to 25+ MW. Over the past ten years, the company and its subsidiary CKD TurboTechnics, s.r.o. have installed over 280 turbines at more than 200 sites around the world.