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"Our Tunisian engineers form a skilled team that is highly motivated, with a sound sense of
responsibility. Employees have learned German in just a few months. Higher production,
productivity and profits have encouraged us to set up a second unit in just a few years."
Herbert Baumgartner, Director
K A S C H K E - Z K E
KASCHKE GmbH, founded in 1955, is a world leader in ferrites and inductive materials. It has another
production center in Rumania and affiliates in France, Great Britain and the United States. It has clients
in more than 60 countries.
KASCHKE has worked in the Cap Bon since 1978 and in Zaghouan since 1998, producing almost 3.5
million inductive components a month, about 25% for clients in the automotive electronics sector.
The company employs almost 1,000 people in Tunisia, where it has developed its own training centers.
Manufacture is based on coil techniques that produce more than 1500 different items. They are exported to
more than 35 countries, used in highly diverse fields like telecommunications, automobiles, electronics,
lighting and consumer goods. These inductive components are used by Mercedes, Alcatel, Siemens, and
Nissan… customers who demand very high quality, reliability and security for a wide range of uses, such as:
transponder antennae for immobilizer systems;
transformers for child seat detection;
intelligent features for motors using electronic components;
electronic distribution of electricity for dashboard lighting;
ABS and airbag systems;
vehicle air conditioning, ventilation and heating systems;
electronic steering systems (EPAS).
More symbolically, the company provides equipment for the high speed pendulum train developed in
Germany.
These specialized types of products led KASHCKE AG early on to install quality insurance systems at their
production sites. The Menzel Bouzelfa plant currently employs 600 people and is certified ISO 9001 and
ISO 9002 by the TUV certification board of Hanover.
Quality is the basis of KASCHKE’s competitive edge. Professor Michalowsky, who is in charge of quality
trials, explains: "By using strict quality controls, the rate of call-back as a ratio of turnover is down to 0.2
per thousand. Our clients count on our high standards of quality."