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 download pdf Cartridge HeatersHigh power, little space: Contact heating of tools and machine parts. We make cartridge heaters from diameter 4 up to 31.8 mm in an unlimited number of styles.
 download pdf HotMicroCoil Heating ElementsPrecise power distribution, flexible design: Nozzle heaters mainly for the plastic industry. We produce HotMicroCoils according to your specifications, including dimensions, winding pattern and power.
 download pdf Infrared HeatersContact free heating, various wave lengths: Direct heating of materials and surfaces. We offer a huge standard range for every type of infrared radiation in different models.
 download pdf Tubular HeatersMany sections, many lengths: Long-living heating elements for the use in air or tools. We can supply many different shapes, lengths and wattages with the option to be bent by yourselves.
 download pdf Heating BandsHigh power, big flexibility: Heating of tubes and cylinders. We have the right type to meet your requirements with different models and materials suitable for your application.
 download pdf Thermo SensorsVarious sensor shapes, exact measuring: Measurement of temperature in controlled heat processes. We deliver the appropriate sensor for your applications from our standard range or according to your demands.
 download pdf ControllersEasy handling, quick control: The universal supplement to our heating elements: We show how a good controlling performance can be joined with an optimised choice of functions and an easy handling.
 download pdf Flat Heating ElementsMultifunctional use, uniform heating: Contact heating of flat surfaces. We manufacture flat heating elements in several materials, customised to your application.
 download pdf Open Wire Heating ElementsEffective air flow heating, variable designs: The best way to heat airflow, as seen in automatic devices or tumble dryers. We produce adapted heating elements for your fans or, when required, with fan.
 download pdf AccessoriesSmall quantities, perfect supplement: It's not just the heaters that count - everything around does, too. We supply connection components and accessories in order to optimise the use of our heating elements.
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 show video A normal working day at Friedr. Freek
The idea of our Freek movie goes back onto our LEAN project, in which we established until the beginning of year 2008 a comprehensive business model for the manufacture of our simple standard heating elements. At that time the Project Management Agency Karlsruhe (PTKA) assigned the Berlin filmmaker Renate Teucher to produce a film documentation about the project results.
This was how we happened to achieve the first edition of our Freek movie. And the first edition could have easily been the current one if not the upcoming world economic crises would have reversed economic realities completely. So the words at the film's ending "... The order books are full and Freek is once more expanding" sounded somewhat misplaced and could impossibly be left. This is how it came we approached Mrs. Teucher just one year later to produce an updated edition of the movie.
The result received its premier at the occasion of the company's 60th anniversary in June 2010. And due to the overwhelming positive resonance from our guests we decided to have a short trailer (3 min) besides the more essential but longer documentation, too. We would be pleased if you like our Freek movies, and thank you in advance for any comments.
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Original extract from www.milestones.nrw.de:
Category: Turnaround, Group: medium-sized and small enterprises
Friedr. Freek GmbH, Menden: impressive market success by horizontal co-operation
Founded in 1950 in Menden as a single enterprise and converted into a Ltd. company in 1970, today Freek manufactures and distributes with 45 employees electric heating elements and heating systems for industrial and household appliances. The turnover in 2001 exceeded 5 million Euro.
As a typical subcontractor, specialized in niches, Friedr. Freek GmbH was confronted by considerable problems in the nineties: concentration on customers' side resulting in demands for price reduction, a larger performance spectrum and increased quality standards pressed the company hard. The dependance from the stagnating 'white ware' industry and missing monopoly characteristics led to a 34% decline in business from 1993 to 1996.
As a way out the management looked for an intensified co-operation with other small enterprises with a similar need of action. Yet, merger and acquisition were ruled out. In 1997 Freek initiated the horizontal R&D co-operation EUCOPET, which is meanwhile joined by five carefully selected international partner companies. Main target was the mutual completion of resources and abilities,
especially for joint Research & Development followed by the promotion of innovation power and the orientation towards export markets. The co-operation proved to be most successful. New products became money-spinner, among them heating elements for hand and hair dryers. With this example Freek and its co-operation allies showed that it is possible, with intelligent value adding concepts, to produce even Low-Tech-products in highly industrialized markets profitably. A Million-order deal for Infrared-heaters followed.
The intensive exchange in all relevant technological and organisational matters as well as the exploitation of synergy effects paid for all parties involved. Apart from new products, lasting process improvements in administration and production have been achieved. Together with extensive marketing all partners achieved visible improvements in turnover and outcome. Since the foundation of EUCOPET Freek celebrates great sales successes. The export rate "jumped" almost from a "standing position" up to 35%, upward tendency. The number of customers increased tenfold. From 1997 to 2000 the turnover grew by more than 130%.
All co-operation partners succeeded in catching up with the sector's world-wide market leaders and partially even in overtaking them . Already in 1999 awarded as a particularly innovative company by the initiative TOP100 NRW, Freek offers a large part of its gained co-operation know-how in seminars and publications to other interested parties.
 show video EUCOPET in Europamagazin of ARDThe successes of our co-operation caused the First German TV Station (ARD) to produce a 7-minute report about EUCOPET. After the first shootings at Freek's 50th anniversary in May 2000, they went to Ceramicx in Ireland and finally a second time to Freek. With such exact investigations it is not surprising that ARD-reporter Michaela May succeeded with her report an entertaining and apt portray of EUCOPET. The report was telecast in the programme "Europamagazin" on Saturday, 02. December 2000, 16:35h.
 download pdf Handelsblatt Freek-PortraitChoosing the right partner affords protection against disappointment.
Reich, Ingo. In: Handelsblatt, 25.02.02/Nr. 39, page T11
 download pdf TOP 100 Freek-Portrait
 download pdf Co-operation beats competition in R&D.EUREKA Promotion Sheet for the EUCOPET presentation on Hannover fair 1999.
 download pdf Cooperation beats competitionEUCOPET project profile, published in EUREKA`s "BEST PRACTICE EXAMPLES"-section on www.eureka.be -
References
 download pdf Jahresbericht 2010Produktionsforschung 2020
Institut für Produktionsmanagement, Technologie und Werkzeugmaschinen
Technische Universität Darmstadt - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eberhard Abele
 visit website www.eureka.be (success story Eucopet)Facts and figures regarding EUCOPET out of the EUREKA project file
 visit website www.kooperationswissen.de
 download pdf Der BetriebsleiterGemeinsam sind sie stark - ERP-Software vernetzt Kooperationspartner. In: Der Betriebsleiter, 17.06.2002, page 36-37
download pdf Handelsblatt Freek-PortraitChoosing the right partner affords protection against disappointment.
Reich, Ingo. In: Handelsblatt, 25.02.02/Nr. 39, page T11
 download pdf iemThe magazine "Industry & European Market" (iem) reports in its issue from 07.11.2001 about the cooperation between the Swedish drier-producer Asko Cylinda AB and Freek (page 82/83).
 download pdf FACTORY EUCOPET - Co-operation Among CompetitorsIn: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Editor): 15 Years EUREKA. Federal Ministry of Education and Research - Public Relations, Bonn, November 2000
 download pdf SCOPE'A Thorny Matter': Spatial Distance Secures Success in Co-operation among Small and Medium-sized Businesses. Kaiser, Stefan. In: SCOPE 9/2000, page 6
 download pdf Working together creates new jobsIn EUREKA-News 47, June 2000, page 6
 visit website TOP 100 NRW; 2000 (ISBN 3-930019-07-9)Hundert innovative Unternehmen schaffen Perspektiven für NRW. Bantle, Frank; Pröbstl, Bernd; Schuble, Joachim (Hrsg.): Schlaumeier Medien GmbH, Stuttgart, 1999 -
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