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EuroWire – January 2009 20
english corporate news
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 future business conditions, the
company is planning a second phase
of construction consisting of a further
8,000m2 production area. The forthcoming
headquarters relocation in Schwabach is
a further contribution to the company’s
capacity expansion. Spacious shop floors
with optimally designed workplaces will
enable a more efficient organisation of
New Niehoff plant at Schwabach
process flows and savings for material
handling and order processing. The new
plant will include a new state-of-the-art
paint finishing system. This new
investment aims at increasing the
company’s competitiveness, which is no
longer possible at its present site, and at
reducing lead times, especially in high
demand conditions. Over 400 employees,
plus more than forty apprentices, work
Left to right: Arnd Willmann (architecture office Reindl & Partner, Nuremberg), Heinz Rockenhäuser (president ▲ ▲
of Maschinenfabrik Niehoff), Matthias Thürauf (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)
New Istanbul office
Sikora AG opened a new sales office in Istanbul on
1st January 2009, its ninth sales location, in reaction to the
increasing demand for Sikora measuring systems.
The Istanbul office will place Sikora in a position to react
faster to customer requests and to further expand its
business in Turkey.
Sikora has been working with the International Trade
Consultancy (ITC) since July 1997 and follows the
extremely positive business development in the Turkish
market with the setting up of its own office.
“We are proud to announce the forthcoming opening of
an additional office in Turkey,” commented Harry Prunk,
chairman of Sikora AG. “What is crucial is the closeness
to customers and the further expansion of our sales
activities in and around Istanbul. We see strong growth
potential, in particular in the East European and Asian
regions, which we want to generate for our measuring
and control devices solutions,” he explained.
Head of the Sikora office in Istanbul is Ajda Sariguelle,
after an intensive six months of training in Bremen.
Mrs Sariguelle has great experience in the field of
administration and sales.
Sikora AG – Germany Fax: +49 421 48900 90
Email: Website:
for Niehoff in Germany. Niehoff group
worldwide comprises five subsidiaries and
four representative and service offices
with about 250 employees.
Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH
& Co KG – Germany
Fax: +49 9122 977 155
Email:
Website :