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HEINZGLAS+PLAStIcS
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
Damen und Herren,
Messieurs et Mesdames!
We are in moving or shaky
times! Some might call them
volatile times with a sound of
regret, others describe them
with a certain excitement as a
roller coaster, many view them
as a threat and many others
still see plenty of chances!
In the past months things have
changed in our world – the
powerful economic centers
are shifting – and a crisis also
generates technical changes,
as already been known by the
ancient Greeks (and the young
Greeks may learn it again?).
Since a lot has changed on
our side over the past months,
it would be appropriate to
publish this corporate magazine
as a book. But due to
various reasons we have to
limit ourselves. Nevertheless
we will shortly be publishing
a book covering 350 years
of Heinz-Glas in Kleintettau
- with plenty of important
information for our business
partners and employees.
We do not want to look further
ahead than mid 2011, and
because of the soon to be
published anniversary book, I
do not have to look too far back
at this point. Nevertheless I
want to look back a little bit,
especially in the area that has
not been covered in our last
Hüttenpost, first and foremost
Heinz Plastics. Therefore I do
not just want to refer to the
page 22 and the pages that
roller coaster/ Achterbahn 2009-2010
follow but also mention the
organizational changes on
the company board displayed
on page 20 with Mr. François
Dujardin together with
myself and the new co-chief
executive at HP; Mr. Scheck,
to regain synergies that have
been lost over the past years
through diversification and
decentralization and to bring all
“Horse Power” within the Heinz
Plastics Group on track. After
all Heinz Plastics has more than
60 machines and a combined
yearly turnover performance of
over 60 million Euro. In doing
so Heinz Plastics Polska is being
expanded significantly in our
own facilities (see page 24) after
the production were located
in rented areas with increasing
limitations over the past years.
We want to develop the
business branch “Plastics” again
as a second strong “leg” of our
family-owned business group at
three German, one Polish, one
Swiss and one U.S. American
production site after it was
originally founded in 1955 by
the previous generation.
Certainly there is also important
news from the three times as big
Heinz-Glass business branch,
especially due to the fact that
we fired up our E-furnace on
the 2nd of March 2010 again
after we had to shut down this
brand new 20 million Euro
furnace after just 9 months of
service in summer of 2008.
And we were able to achieve
this thanks to the exceptional
performance of our employees,
therefore this 37th Hüttenpost
edition focuses also on them.
In these regards I remain Yours,
INNoVAtIoN INSPIRED By tRADItIoN
HEINZGLAS KLEINTETTAU
+ PLASTICS
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