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Wire & Cable ASIA – January/February 2009 8
Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH & Co
KG is building a completely new plant
at the company’s headquarters in
Schwabach near Nuremberg, Germany.
The mid-September groundbreaking
ceremony marked the beginning of the
development.
The company’s departments will be
relocated in three stages. The first
phase of construction will include
the new locations for assembly, test
stand, trials, shipping, paint shop and
apprentices workshop. The first
construction stage, which has been
started, comprises a production area
of 17,000m2 and production-related
offices of 1,500m2.
The company is investing €25 million,
not including the property purchase,
in this first construction phase.
Dependent upon business conditions,
the company is planning a second
phase of construction consisting of a
further 8,000m 2 production area.
Niehoff continuously invests in the
development of new products and in
machinery, equipment and manu-
facturing and organisational methods.
During the last few years the company
has expanded its portfolio by adding
braiding machines, stranding machines
for data cables and inductive annealers
to its product line.
The buyout of Hacoba rewinders and
Bongard coilers completed Niehoff’s
production portfolio and considerable
worldwide investments were under-
taken in the USA (2004), India (2006),
Czech Republic (2007) and in Brazil
(2008).
The forthcoming headquarters re-
location in Schwabach is another
contribution to the company’s capacity
expansion. Spacious shop floors with
optimally designed workplaces will
enable a more efficient organisation of
process flows and savings for material
handling and order processing.
The new plant will include a state of the
art paint finishing system.
This investment is aimed at increasing
the company’s competitiveness –
which is no longer possible at its
present site – and at reducing lead
times in high demand conditions.
Over four hundred employees, plus
more than forty apprentices, work for
Niehoff in Germany. Niehoff group
worldwide comprises five subsidiaries
and four representative and service
offices with about two hundred fifty
employees.
Of current revenue, about 80% is
still generated at the company’s
headquarters.
Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH
& Co KG – Germany
Fax: +49 9122 977 155
Email:
Website:
New Niehoff plant
Arnd Willmann (architecture office Reindl & Partner, Nuremberg), Heinz Rockenhäuser (president of Maschinenfabrik Niehoff), Matthias Thürauf m m
(mayor of Schwabach), Hans-Hermann Kroher, delegate of the shareholder families Niehoff and Kroher, Dr. Michael Schwarzer (chairman of the
supervisory board), Richard Schwager (finance director and economic counsellor of Schwabach) (from left to right)
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