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21.11.07
Freek GmbH made competitors allies with EUCOPET - at the same time the major customers are in the region (Sauerland) – Symposium for Lean
Menden.
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| Look into the new hall: from March 2008 it will be used for production. Photo: Hagemann |
To make worldwide competitors allies when it makes sense and is profitable
for everyone: That has been the basic idea of the EUCOPET network of
heating element producers founded in 1997. The Menden-based company Friedrich
Freek participated from the beginning. It is true that Germany is the most
important country for the plastic industry, four of the biggest hotrunner
producers are located in the Sauerland, therefore the site in Menden still
is and remains ideal for Freek. But: The international network has steadily
grown at the same time – "especially with the Internet which granted better
and better opportunities for us", as Freek-boss Wolfgang Kaiser explains.
Today four of the 50 employees work in the EDP-department. That there does
exist a job of an IT-clerk is thanks to Freek’s pressure. It is little wonder
that among the four apprentices at Freek currently is a future IT-clerk.
Freek also worries about the traditional jobs, which have been lost by the
hundred thousands during the last years in Germany. "Lean Implementation" is
the key word to the Kaisers, who made Freek to one of five company partners
in this research and development project. On 28. and 29. November the chairs
of the universities Dortmund and Bochum as well as the partner companies will
be present at a symposium in the rooms of the Sparkasse Menden. - hgm
Source: Mendener Zeitung
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