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EuroWire – May 2009 15
english corporate news
Marking 80 years in business
This year the family firm of Medek &
Schörner celebrates the 80th anniversary
of its founding by Josef Medek and
Gustav Schörner.
Originally a precision engineering
workshop, the company began the
manufacture of machines for the marking
of cables, wires, pipes and continuously
extruded products in the 1950s.
Today’s third generation of management
(Fritz Descovich II and Kurt Descovich,
grandson of founder Josef Medek, and
Werner Lichtscheidl, son-in-law of Gustav
Schörner II) has continued the company’s
established traditions of its forebears.
Advanced technological expertise, highly
trained staff and the latest in production
technology continue to ensure the quality
of the company’s products.
The erection of a production facility at
Grossebersdorf in 1989, equipped with
the very latest machine tools, went hand
in hand with a focus on research and
development and a special emphasis
on complex electronic controls. This
made it possible to continue producing
conventional products of exceptional
quality, while keeping pace with the latest
developments in modern technology.
This was of particular benefit with respect
to technically highly sophisticated
equipment for the colouring and coating
of optical fibres for glass fibre cables.
Medek & Schörner believes that its
employees represent the company’s
real capital. Most of the firm’s precision
engineers were first employed as
apprentices, learning the production of
high-precision mechanical components
on modern CNC machine tools.
Conventional SPS controls and drive
components are used in electronic and
control engineering, and high-speed
processor controls – developed in-house
– are employed wherever the standard
components available on the market
reach their technical limits.
The engineers involved in research,
development and design are the same
engineers who deal with the wide range
of problems encountered by customers in
everyday on-site operation. This ensures
that Medek & Schörner technology
stays true to its maxim: to support the
company’s customers in every way and
meet their requirements in the best
possible manner.
Medek & Schörner GmbH – Austria
Fax: +43 1982 7296
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A focus on research and development ▲ ▲
Nexans has signed final agreements with
Polycab, India’s largest cable company,
for a joint venture to be majority-held
by Nexans and managed in close
cooperation with its Indian partner.
The joint venture, headquartered in
Vadodara in Gujarat, will cover the
manufacture and marketing of cables
for the shipbuilding, material handling,
railway and windpower industries. The
agreements include the production
of high voltage (HV) underground
cables, which was initially anticipated to
constitute a second phase.
Michel Lemaire, executive vice president
for the Asia-Pacific area of Nexans, said:
“We are teamed up with a high-quality
partner to ensure the success of our first
industrial venture in the Indian market
as well as benefiting from the sustained
growth of this emerging economy.
The immediate extension of the scope
of our agreement to include high
voltage cables should allow us to take
a strong position in the growing power
infrastructures market in India.”
Nexans – France
Fax: +33 15669 8484
Email:
Website:
Joint venture agreements