Family-run car firm that aims to fill gap in market

A FAMILY-run automotive business with roots in Poland and Germany is aiming to break into the market in Dundee.

Piotr Struminski and Marcin Lawniczak set up JPM Dundee DPF Services, which offers car engine cleaning services.

It is based at Balfield Road and offers a range of services, including cleaning diesel particulate filters (DPF) in vehicles.

We are a specialist company with an innovative service for cleaning a wide range of filters for vehicles, plants and equipment, power systems and emission components.

Our DPF cleaning service is a professional treatment to clean the build-up of soot and ash.

We provide the only professional longterm solution for DPF problems other than costly replacement.

Removing or cutting a DPF is against the law and can also seriously affect the turbo charger performance, which will lead to less power.

We do not use any harsh chemicals to breakdown the soot, ash, engine oil and refrigerant fluid.

Instead we use cost-effective and environmentally-friendly detergents that are safe for catalytic filter cartridges.

The whole process takes a place in a closed circuit and does not emit any pollution into the atmosphere.

We started our business just over a year ago.

The first few months were very challenging with transporting the machine from Germany, finding the place to operate and deciding what we can offer to our customers.

However, we now have a great place, satisfied customers and our business is growing fast.

A lot of people warned us about it being an uncertain time to start a new business.

Our machine arrived at the beginning of February 2021, and we were ready to start our business but it wasn’t as easy as we thought.

Luckily, we had enough capital to survive over a couple of months. We also had a lot of ideas to present our service to garages and clients.

The biggest mistake was not spending enough time to understand the market and the customers we wanted to reach.

However, thanks to our regular and new customers, we now realise that we are going in the right direction.