VVUÚ a.s. was established in 1952 as Institute of coal research whose original mission was dealing mainly the problems of safety and technologies, used in deep mines and heavy industry. Gradually in the premises of the company in Ostrava-Radvanice there were build special testing mines and places for testing of fires, fuel explosions, dusts, gases and their characteristics. Later there were added special laboratories and testing rooms, connected with issues of explosiveness and flammability. Then there came testing rooms for ropes, mining machines and selected technologies; testing rooms and storehouses for explosives, testing rooms of flow, dustiness, ventilation and filter devices for mining industry and other branches; technologies of industry and electric power industry. In parallel with development of these branches there were built facilities for industrial manufacturing and storehouses for products of the company itself.