CPT International 01/2018

NEWS
FILL MACHINE ENGINEERING
Investment of 7.5 million euros in Gurten plant
New Fill-production facility in Gurten, Austria (Photo: Fill)
The high-tech company Fill Machine
Engineering, Gurten, Austria, continues
on its course of expansion. 5,000 m 2 of
new production space is being created.
Fill remains on course for growth. In
order to ensure the proven quality of
the internationally successful machine
engineering company for the
long term, the production facility is
being expanded. In the upcoming
months, 5,000 m 2 of additional production
space for assembling machines
and systems will be created.
The electrical workshop area will also
be doubled in size. A total of 7.5 million
euros is being invested in the
company’s headquarters. All construction
work is being carried out by companies
from the region or elsewhere in
Upper Austria. Completion of the entire
project is scheduled for late March
2018.
“With the enlargement of our production
facility, we are creating sufficient
space for optimum assembly conditions
in light of increasing demands
on capacity,” explains proprietor and
CEO Andreas Fill. All three hall sections
will be completed successively by
the end of March 2018.
The stilt-based construction style in
which the new halls are being built has
allowed attractive, covered parking
spaces to be created for employees underneath
the assembly area. In order to
be prepared for e-mobility and completely
in line with the successful company’s
innovative spirit, ten electric
charging stations will also be provided
in this area. These will be made available
to employees free of charge for charging
their electric vehicles. Furthermore,
erection of a large photovoltaic system
is planned, which will supply environmentally-friendly
energy to the production
facility and to the electric charging
stations in future.
ELKEM
New plant in China
On 12 December 2017, Elkem, Oslo,
Norway, celebrated the opening of
a new plant for foundry products in
Shizuishan city in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous
Region in China.
The evening before the ceremony,
Elkem China hosted a dinner for the
customers. Roland Hennigfeld, VP of
Sales & Marketing in Elkem Foundry
Products, welcomed the guests by explaining
the Foundry products business
model in a new way: He compared the
business model to a fine dining restaurant,
where Elkem’s customers are the
professional chefs who need high quality
ingredients to best serve their dinner
guests. Elkem Foundry Products represents
the condiments needed for taking
the meal to another level, and in this
particular restaurant, the spices are Mg-
The brandnew Elkem-plant for foundry products in Shizuishan city, China
FeSi and Inoculants. With several years
of experience from cooking in high
quality castings, the experts from Elkem
can advise on how to best use the condiments.
The amount added is important,
as well as which spice is used for
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