EoW January 2009

english corporate news

New Niehoff plant at Schwabach

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 17,000m 2 and production-related offices of 1,500m 2 . 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 8,000m 2 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

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)

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

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

Fax : +49 9122 977 155 Email : info@niehoff.de Website : www.niehoff.de

New Istanbul office Sikora AG opened a new sales office in Istanbul on 1 st 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 : sales@sikora.net Website : www.sikora.net

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EuroWire – January 2009