Last year the company DAKO-CZ, a.s. renamed the street in which it is based to Josef Daněk 1956. The descriptive number is symbolic: it was in 1956 that the key braking systems were developed by the group led by inventor Josef Daněk were internationally approved.
The importance of Josef Daněk is emphasized by the fact that even under the previous regime his name got into the trademark under which the company still supplies its products. DAKO was created as a compound word of the initial two letters of the words DAněk and KOvolis.
Throughout this year 2020, we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of this significant inventor, who is considered to be the father of the DAKO brake. A man who has made a significant contribution to rail safety through his braking systems and with more than forty of his patents he contributed to the development and future of company.
