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MaxiMill systems Space age materials cut easy. Aerospace, Power generating ... The No.1 solution for Titanium, Stainless and High tensile steels. Double Your Productivity! Metal Removal Rates 200% Higher CERATIZIT USA Inc. 5369 Rt. 982 North 15650-0272 Latrobe, Pennsylvania Tel:+1 803 736 1900 E-Mail: info.usa@ceratizit.com
Today, CERATIZIT is already the world-market leader for carbide products in wood and stone machining as well as Europe‘s largest supplier for industrial wear parts. The group is also gaining strength in the USA where we are catching up in the ranking. Furthermore, CERATIZIT counts on the segments where - thanks to our expertise – we can achieve the best customer benefit and growth opportunities. In the coming years CERATIZIT will focus on Cutting Tools and consistently implement their multi-channel strategy. They will concentrate on niches and develop exclusive solutions for the automotive, engineering, aerospace and oilfield sectors. We want to strive for continuous organic growth above average worldwide. Ever since its foundation CERATIZIT has grown notably quicker than the market. This is how we want to continue, amongst others through targeted acquisitions. In this context new companies have to adapt to the CERATIZIT group strategically, culturally and also financially. With a turnover of approx. 600 million euros (850 million US-dollars) the carbide producer ranks among the TOP 5 worldwide. We are now striving for a turnover of one billion euros by 2012. In order to reach this ambitious goal we have several levers that we can activate efficiently. Pressing ahead with internationalization CERATIZIT has a strong position in Central and Eastern Europe, thus we were able to benefit extraordinarily from the economic growth in Eastern Europe and will be further extending our success. CERATIZIT is excellently positioned in the NAFTA area, which is still the strategically most important market in the world. We have companies in the USA and in Mexico where we have been gaining market shares for years. After the acquisition of Newcomer Products last year CERATIZIT has become a ‘household name’ also in the American Cutting Tool sector. Latin America for us is an independent market with high potential. For years the company has achieved A WORD FROM THE BOARD A WORD FROM THE BOARD double-digit growth rates, and after Eastern Europe and East Asia, Latin America will remain the growth region where we will be investing most intensively. East Asia is at the top of our agenda, as we have companies in the three most important markets, China, Japan and India which contribute in a higher-than-average way to the group’s growth. We will certainly press ahead with our efforts in the Asian markets. “We consistently optimize our processes” Rationalization is always a topic as the cost pressure from competitors never ceases. This does not however mean that we are trying to attain the cost structure of our Asian - namely our Chinese - competitors. And we will also not be moving our entire production to low-wage countries as we obviously want to maintain our high standard with regard to quality, products and services and above all our customer proximity. This however does not rule out production being transferred in single cases. “We prefer to be the number 1 in selected segments than the number 3 overall”, says Board member Wolter. In the framework of our current project, FOCUS FUTURE, our aim is to interlock production and sales, also geographically, in such a way that the customer‘s requests are fulfilled as quickly and efficiently as possible. At the moment this project basically concerns the West European production sites. But the more we grow in Asia and Latin America, the more we will extend our production in these regions to maintain customer proximity. We want to optimize all the processes which are necessary to fulfill the customer’s requests. For this purpose we have to continuously increase efficiency in all areas, i.e. research & development, acquisition, sales, production and logistics. CERATIZIT and our employees have already attained a lead over competitors. Thierry Wolter Member of the Executive Board thierry.wolter@ceratizit.com 03
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