TechConcept s.r.o. is successfully developing after completing the incubation program
The Plzeň-based startup cooperates on development with ZČU, and finances projects with BIC Plzeň. The results of its work appear in energy facilities around the world.
TechConcept was founded in 2019 by two experts in the calculation and design of equipment for the energy industry. They participated in a pilot run of an incubation program in 2021. Here, based on consultations with BIC Plzeň consultants, they have chosen a strategic focus on more professionally demanding assignments in which they can fully use their own ideas and knowledge. Despite the initial doubts of their surroundings, they managed to be included among the suppliers of key players in the industry, such as CEZ Group, Veolia Group or Doosan Škoda Power.Since then, their company’s annual saleshave more than tripled.
They continue to cooperate with BIC Pilsen, especially in obtaining financial resources for the implementation of projects in the field of research, development and innovation, solved with the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. They also use the services of the Enterprise Europe Network, e.g. information seminars or searching for foreign partners.
The company’s success with customers has been greatly helped by certifications that demonstrate its high professional quality and reliability in the demanding energy sector. In 2025, the company was audited by ČEZ ENERGOSERVIS and was thus able to become its qualified supplier of valves for nuclear power plants. In 2026 , it was then included among several Czech companies recommended by the State Office for Nuclear Safety for the computerised safety assessment of nuclear power plants.
Today the company can be proud of a number of successfully completed orders, for example, deliveries of valves for conventional and nuclear power plants for CEZ Group, development and calculation work on experimental equipment for Centrum výzkumu Řež s.r.o. or backflow preventers, condensate expanders and steam screens for Doosan Škoda Power a.s. Thanks to these customers, we can see the results of the work of TechConcept experts in Dukovany, Temelin and other Czech power plants, as well as in Poland, Germany, the USA, Kazakhstan, Thailand and Saudi Arabia.
In cooperation with BIC Plzeň, the company has already prepared a project in 2021 focused on the innovation of dampers ensuring protection of the turbine against backflow of the medium, or on the method of their design and creation of a digital twin for simulation of their function in various operating conditions. The company’s application for funding to implement the project from The Country for the Future’sInnovation into Practice sub-programme was approved , the development was completed in 2022 and the results are already being commercialised.
“At BIC Plzeň, they help us to orientate ourselves in the subsidy programmes, to choose the one that is suitable for us, and to properly design the project to meet the requirements of the selected call. They also work with us on the application and the business plan, as well as on fulfilling the beneficiary’s obligations, such as accounting for project expenses, selecting suppliers and maintaining work reports. Thanks to the cooperation with consultant Zbyněk Doležal on the Knowledge Transfer Partnership project “Innovation of control valves”, we managed to successfully complete everything, up to the final accounting and reimbursement of the subsidy.
Jan Blažek, Managing Director TechConcept s.r.o.”
The company also used the Plzeň Business Vouchers programme , which BIC Plzeň provides for the city of Plzeň. In 2021 and 2022, it received a subsidy for the services of the Department of Mechanics of the Faculty of Mechanics of the University of Applied Sciences in the field of numerical simulations of media flow in check valves.
The largest project so far was prepared with the help of BIC Pilsen for the call I Knowledge Transfer Partnership OP TAK. It managed to obtain a multi-million subsidy for knowledge transfer in the field of 3D printing and numerical simulations from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. This knowledge is needed for the development of unique control valves, enabling the mitigation of large pressure gradients in power plants or heating plants. 3D printing technology from metals allows to produce pressure reducing sleeves with channels of specific shapes, which not only effectively reduce the pressure gradient, but also minimize noise and vibration, which significantly extends the service life of the entire device. Using numerical flow simulations, optimal channel shapes could be designed and virtually verified.
Physical testing of a test sample of the control valve took place in October 2025 in the Doosan Škoda Power experimental hall.The first production unit will be tested directly in the plant in 2026. Thanks to the cooperation with experts from the Department of Materials and Engineering Metallurgy and the Department of Mechanics ,TechConcept has a remarkable solution that places it among the world leaders in the field. We at BIC Plzeň are glad to have been able to contribute to this.
TechConcept s.r.o. was supported by BIC Plzeň thanks to its membership in the Enterprise Europe Network.
