EoW July 2010

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Niehoff opens new factory On 7 th April 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 15,000ft 2 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 80,000ft 2 of production area.

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The assembly area of Niehoff’s new facility near Schwabach ▲ ▲

Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH & Co KG – Germany Fax : +49 9122 977 155 Email : info@niehoff.de Website : www.niehoff.de

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EuroWire – July 2010