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corporatenews
CANDOR SwedenAB
Tel: +46 11 21 75 00 Email:
Fax: +46 11 12 63 12 Website:
wire plating
plants
candor
can do wire
equipment
Electrolytic plating
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Candojet hot water cleaning ◆
Electrolytic & Ultrasonic ◆
degreasing
Welding wire cleaning and
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copper coating
Pickling & phosphating ◆
Niehoff opens
new factory
On 7thApril 2010, Maschinenfabrik Niehoff officially opened its new factory building in
Schwabach, near Nuremberg, Germany, close to the company’s headquarters.
The new facility has spacious shop floors with optimally designed workstations.
The building enables efficient organisation of process flow, and includes the
assembly department, paint shop, test rig and testing area, the packing and shipping
department, offices, recreation rooms, building services and training workshops where
Niehoff apprentices receive their technical training.
Production now has 170,000ft² more space than before, enough to sustain a throughput
of 100 drawing lines a year. Another 15,000ft2 on three floors is dedicated to offices and
auxiliary rooms.
The 40ft high production areas, and the office and other rooms, have radiant heat
ceilings and air-conditioning systems that ensure pleasant working temperatures, as
well as a sensor-controlled natural lighting system.
The building meets low-energy standards, and features the latest in plant design,
building management technology, and energy efficiency. The architecture, interior
furnishings, geothermal heat systems, heat pumps, pneumatic system compressors,
drives of production machines and other devices are designed so that energy
consumption is kept to a minimum and the heat dissipated by the equipment can
be recovered.
Dependent upon future business conditions, the company is planning a second phase
of construction of another 80,000ft2 of production area.
Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH & Co KG – Germany
Fax: +49 9122 977 155
Email:
Website:
The assembly area of Niehoff’s new facility near Schwabach ▲ ▲