- CEO
- Jedrzej Kowalewski
- Full Time Employees
- 91
- Sector
- Electronic technology
- Industry
- Electronic equipment/Instruments
- Address
- Wroclaw Poland
- IPO Date
- Oct 11, 2023
- Business
- Scanway Spółka Akcyjna is a Poland-based optoelectronics and vision technology company that develops, manufactures, and integrates advanced optical instruments, Earth observation payloads, and industrial machine vision systems. The company operates through two primary business segments: Space and Industry. In the Space segment, the company designs, qualifies, and manufactures modular optical instruments for micro- and nanosatellites, including the Scanway Optical Payload (SOP) series of high-resolution, multispectral telescopes for Earth observation across visible, near-infrared, and short-wave infrared spectrums; the Scanway Camera System (SCS) series of miniaturized vision payloads engineered for spacecraft self-diagnostics, solar array and antenna deployment monitoring, and in-orbit servicing; custom optoelectronic assemblies for Space Situational Awareness and Space Surveillance and Tracking; and end-to-end optical data chain engineering encompassing onboard FPGA-based image processing, calibration, and Assembly, Integration, and Test services within dedicated ISO-standard cleanroom facilities. In the Industry segment, the company provides automated optical inspection, quality control, and vision metrology systems tailored for Industry 4.0 applications across automotive, printing, packaging, electronics, food processing, and medical manufacturing; offering proprietary product lines including CUMULUS on-line object inspection systems; STRATUS continuous raw-material web and surface scanners; NIMBUS robot-guided multi-axis visual inspection units; CIRRUS large-format optical defect detection platforms; and the HYDRA computer vision and deep learning image processing software suite. Scanway serves national and international space agencies, satellite constellation operators, defense contractors, and industrial manufacturing enterprises across Europe, North America, and Asia. Founded in 2015 as a technology spin-off from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, the company is headquartered in Wrocław, Poland, and trades on the Warsaw Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SCW. Recent corporate developments include the transfer of the company's shares from the NewConnect alternative trading market to the Main Market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange in March 2026, followed by inclusion in the sWIG80 index; the completion of an accelerated book-building equity offering raising PLN 76.4 million in June 2026 to fund serial production capacity and European expansion; strategic multi-stage payload delivery agreements for the NarSha methane-monitoring satellite constellation with South Korea's Nara Space; the co-development of Very High Resolution Earth observation payloads in consortium with Marble Imaging under the European Space Agency InCubed program; key subcontractor contributions of optical telescopes and cameras for the European Space Agency-funded Polish CAMILA Earth observation constellation led by Creotech Instruments; the delivery of flight-model optical instruments for lunar surface mapping missions in partnership with Intuitive Machines; and collaborative defense visual systems development alongside FlyFocus.