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<strong>Forum</strong> <strong>IPW</strong><br />
Information from the Industrial Park <strong>Walsrode</strong><br />
Dow Wolff Cellulosics<br />
<strong>IPW</strong>: a globalization hotspot<br />
The acquisition of Wolff <strong>Walsrode</strong> AG by The Dow Chemical Company,<br />
a globally operating US concern, in July of this year has strengthened<br />
the <strong>IPW</strong> as a modern industrial location. The newly formed company<br />
Dow Wolff Cellulosics with its workforce in excess of 2,200 and its<br />
15 production sites and sales offices has its headquarters in Bomlitz.<br />
In the wake of these developments, promising new linkage points along<br />
the supply chain are also emerging for small and medium-sized enterprises.<br />
EU business grants<br />
Green light for<br />
investments<br />
The European Union is supporting<br />
small and medium-sized enterprises<br />
which are planning to invest in the<br />
region, by providing grants up until<br />
the year 2013. The subsidies can<br />
amount to 15 per cent of the capital<br />
investment.<br />
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Economic climate<br />
Economy continues<br />
to grow<br />
Businesses in Lower Saxony currently<br />
rate economic development as continuing<br />
to be positive. The situation is<br />
also judged favourably by the majority<br />
of industrial companies. This is the<br />
outcome of a recent survey by the<br />
Lüneburg-Wolfsburg Chamber of<br />
Industry and Commerce.<br />
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CaseTech GmbH<br />
Demanding market<br />
Based in the Industrial Park<br />
<strong>Walsrode</strong>, CaseTech produces and<br />
markets high-quality synthetic<br />
casings for the meat processing<br />
industry and butcher’s trade under<br />
its brand name of “<strong>Walsrode</strong>r<br />
Casings”.<br />
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Plug and play – the Industrial Park’s<br />
motto not only aims at the bull’s eye<br />
with regard to SMEs in the chemical<br />
industry, as is shown by the example of<br />
The Dow Chemical Company, a major<br />
multinational concern. The cellulosics<br />
business of the US group and of the<br />
former Bayer affiliate is being consolidated<br />
under the umbrella of the newly<br />
founded company Dow Wolff Cellulosics,<br />
and the global cellulosics activities<br />
are controlled from Bomlitz, Germany.<br />
The <strong>IPW</strong> plays a central role in the US<br />
concern’s global strategy, as the business<br />
operations of the new company<br />
with its more than 2,200 employees at<br />
15 locations are managed from its base<br />
here in the <strong>IPW</strong>. “Bomlitz is our headquarters<br />
and the center of expertise for<br />
cellulosics within the Dow Group,”<br />
explains Martin Sonntag, General Manager<br />
of Dow Wolff Cellulosics.<br />
With their skills, commitment and<br />
experience, our employees alongside<br />
the infrastructure and state-of-the-art<br />
machinery and equipment were a major<br />
factor in favour of merging the activities<br />
here. “Knowing the market as well<br />
as they do, the staff’s entrepreneurial<br />
approach already proved in the Wolff era<br />
that a company can grow faster than<br />
the market itself.”<br />
The new company encompasses all the<br />
business operations of the former Wolff<br />
<strong>Walsrode</strong> AG plus Dow’s Water Soluble<br />
Polymers division. Dow Wolff Cellulosics<br />
amalgamates the group’s cellulosics<br />
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activities. “What we have gained<br />
through Wolff <strong>Walsrode</strong> is above all<br />
additional technology and market<br />
expertise,” says Sonntag. The two parties<br />
complement each other perfectly<br />
in terms of future growth objectives.<br />
“The former Wolff <strong>Walsrode</strong> AG set<br />
global standards in the fields which<br />
are of interest to us.” Whereas Wolff’s<br />
product focus was on cellulose derivatives<br />
for applications in the construction<br />
and coatings industries, Dow has<br />
traditionally been a strong player in the<br />
food sector and in the pharmaceuticals<br />
market.<br />
Continued on page 3<br />
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Reader Survey<br />
Dear Reader,<br />
A good newsletter should respond to its readers’<br />
wishes, which is why in our previous issue<br />
we requested your opinion and asked you what<br />
you liked about “<strong>Forum</strong> <strong>IPW</strong>” and where we<br />
could improve it. Many readers made use of the<br />
opportunity and we thank them very much for<br />
doing so.<br />
Your replies have proved very helpful in our<br />
efforts to improve our information service. As<br />
a token of our thanks we entered all participants’<br />
names into a draw, the prizes being an<br />
MP3 player, a digital camera and a fountain<br />
pen.<br />
The 8 megapixel Sony DSC-W90 camera was<br />
won by a reader in Sweden: Fredrik Meuller,<br />
president of Trelleborg Protective Products.<br />
The iPod video player with a 30 GB memory<br />
went to Frank Ludwig, PPC Card Systems GmbH<br />
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fountain pen was won by Georg Hennig,<br />
Dr. Schnell Chemie GmbH, Munich.<br />
Congratulations to all winners.<br />
Yours truly<br />
Alf Wilkens<br />
Manager Industrial Park <strong>Walsrode</strong><br />
© Industrial Park <strong>Walsrode</strong> 01.2008<br />
New works restaurant<br />
In-park gastro experience<br />
Eurest Deutschland assures the 2,600<br />
employees in the Industrial Park that it<br />
is committed to cooking with passion<br />
and pleasure. The new in-park restaurant<br />
opened its doors at the beginning<br />
of January 2008. Eurest Deutschland is<br />
one of the leading institutional catering<br />
firms nationwide. Some 8,000 employees<br />
cater to the needs of more than<br />
250,000 people all over the country.<br />
And for the employees of the companies<br />
M-Pro-Tec GmbH<br />
Setting up own facilities at <strong>IPW</strong><br />
The <strong>Walsrode</strong>-based company M-Pro-Tec<br />
GmbH is expanding its activities at<br />
the <strong>IPW</strong>. The enterprise, which develops<br />
special packaging machinery for the<br />
food industry, is investing in its own<br />
warehouse and a workshop where the<br />
packaging machines are to be assembled,<br />
programmed, tested and inspected.<br />
Founded three years ago, the<br />
company provides engineering and pro-<br />
resident in the <strong>IPW</strong>, too, Eurest offers<br />
variety and quality. Regular gourmet,<br />
theme and special lunches alongside<br />
wok dishes, pasta or grilled meals plus<br />
regional specialities provide for culinary<br />
variety. The new works restaurant has<br />
seating for 300 people and can be<br />
also booked by the <strong>IPW</strong> companies for<br />
employee assemblies or promotional<br />
events.<br />
ject management from the conceptual<br />
design stage through to the finished<br />
item. It focuses on machines and processes<br />
tailored to the requirements of<br />
the food industry. During its first two<br />
years, M-Pro-Tec worked closely together<br />
with the <strong>IPW</strong>’s technical service<br />
provider, Probis. This cooperation will<br />
be intensified still further in the wake<br />
of M-Pro-Tec’s expansion.
Dow Wolff Cellulosics<br />
<strong>IPW</strong>: a globalization<br />
hotspot<br />
Continued from page 1<br />
One of the key success factors for Dow<br />
Wolff Cellulosics is its ability to launch<br />
effective product solutions for its customers<br />
and to develop the necessary<br />
forward-looking process technologies.<br />
To provide the basis for developing<br />
modern processes so as to be flexible<br />
and effective, the appropriate resources<br />
are now being consolidated at the stateof-the-art<br />
research and development<br />
facilities located in Bomlitz, Germany.<br />
Methylcellulose process<br />
development is being<br />
consolidated in Bomlitz<br />
This means that new jobs in conjunction<br />
with process development will be created<br />
at the Bomlitz site. The process<br />
engineers will then benefit from the<br />
amassed on-site expertise and experience<br />
as well as from their very good<br />
knowledge of the various production<br />
plants. “This will also underpin Bomlitz<br />
as a research location,” says Sonntag,<br />
confirming the company’s decision to<br />
consolidate methylcellulose capacities<br />
and know-how in Bomlitz, where technicians<br />
scale up the process from the<br />
laboratory to the industrial scale and<br />
also develop and optimize new production<br />
processes.<br />
This commitment within the <strong>IPW</strong> is also<br />
testimony of the location’s growing<br />
attractiveness for globally operating<br />
concerns. Some seven years ago the<br />
Finnish conglomerate Wihuri took over<br />
the films division of the former Wolff<br />
<strong>Walsrode</strong> AG, thereby integrating it into<br />
its Wipak Group and expanding it into<br />
its largest production site. The <strong>IPW</strong><br />
became the group’s strategic hub in<br />
Europe. Today, Wipak is among the<br />
leading European suppliers of packaging<br />
films.<br />
Currently, six companies operating in<br />
the chemical and plastics processing<br />
sector plus several service and infrastructure<br />
providers are based in the<br />
<strong>IPW</strong>.<br />
More information at:<br />
www.dowwolffcellulosics.de<br />
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Innovation & Growth<br />
“Consolidating methylcellulose expertise in Bomlitz”: production facility at the Industrial Park <strong>Walsrode</strong><br />
Cellulose – an<br />
inexhaustible resource<br />
Cellulose can be found virtually everywhere in<br />
the natural world. Some natural fibres such as<br />
cotton, hemp, flax and jute consist almost entirely<br />
of cellulose, whereas the cellulose content<br />
of wood is around 40–60 per cent. The natural<br />
synthesis of cellulose totals about 60 billion tons<br />
of per year, resulting in the practically unlimited<br />
availability of this renewable resource. It is currently<br />
extracted mainly from wood. In linters<br />
(cottonseed hair), cellulose is present in almost<br />
pure form. It stabilizes the cell walls of most<br />
plants. By modifying its basic structure, it is converted<br />
into a versatile material for use in many<br />
areas of modern life. Processing it to obtain cellulose<br />
derivatives involves technologically<br />
demanding and complex processes with a low<br />
environmental impact, resulting in the specific<br />
properties that enhance building materials, food<br />
products, printing inks, coatings, pharmaceuticals<br />
and cosmetics.<br />
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<strong>IPW</strong> Insight<br />
Technical Service<br />
The technical service portfolio covers<br />
the entire range from spare parts,<br />
assembly work, machine repairs to the<br />
construction of equipment using metal<br />
and plastics. Based in the Industrial<br />
Park, the Technical Service Business<br />
Center of Probis GmbH is the unit to<br />
consult on all technical issues. Experience,<br />
reliability and compliance with<br />
time schedules are some of the unit’s<br />
prime merits. While complying with<br />
Plug and play<br />
The Industrial Park <strong>Walsrode</strong><br />
(<strong>IPW</strong>) is an ideal launch pad<br />
for small and medium-sized<br />
enterprises (SMEs) and it offers<br />
plenty of scope for development.<br />
Modern infrastructure, a vast<br />
array of services, favourable<br />
terms and efficient logistics<br />
provide a firm base for sustain-<br />
able growth and success. The<br />
<strong>IPW</strong> is a central startzing point<br />
for the markets in Northern<br />
Germany and in Northern and<br />
Eastern Europe.<br />
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stringent safety and quality requirements,<br />
some 80 specialists carry out<br />
approx. 12,000 orders per year.<br />
Performance scope:<br />
■ Maintenance of industrial plants<br />
■ Improvement of machine<br />
availability<br />
■ Manufacture of new & spare parts<br />
■ Testing of tools & instruments<br />
The Industrial Park <strong>Walsrode</strong><br />
Facts & Figures<br />
■ Area: 130 hectares<br />
■ Companies: more than 20<br />
■ Workforce: approx. 2600<br />
■ Production space: 210,000 m 2<br />
■ 30 ha of area currently<br />
available<br />
■ Vacant offices & laboratories<br />
Location<br />
■ Bomlitz/<strong>Walsrode</strong>, Germany<br />
■ In the triangle formed by<br />
the major cities<br />
Hamburg (100 km),<br />
Hanover (65 km) and<br />
Bremen (65 km)<br />
■ Motorways A7 and A27<br />
■ Close to international<br />
airports & seaports<br />
■ In-park rail system linked<br />
to national network<br />
BREMEN<br />
HANNOVER<br />
HAMBURG
Vacant Areas<br />
Office space<br />
■ Size: up to 200 m2 ;<br />
■ adaptable to utilization<br />
concept<br />
■ Rooms ranging from 12 to 46 m2 ■ Rent: from 6.00 €/m2 per<br />
month, plus service charges<br />
■ Contemporary fit-out<br />
■ Can be occupied at short notice<br />
Companies Sectors<br />
(Selection in alphabetical order)<br />
■ AF Personalpartner<br />
■ Atos Origin<br />
■ CaseTech<br />
■ Dow Wolff Cellulosics<br />
■ Epurex Films<br />
■ OHE<br />
■ Probis<br />
■ Wipak <strong>Walsrode</strong><br />
Laboratory space Commercial space<br />
■ Chemical industry<br />
■ Plastics processing<br />
■ Life sciences<br />
■ Logistics<br />
■ IT services<br />
■ Engineering<br />
Services<br />
(Selection)<br />
Good reasons for relocating to the <strong>IPW</strong><br />
Reduced “time to market”<br />
Straightforward and rapid permit procedure –<br />
competent on-site project management.<br />
Reduced capital investment<br />
Infrastructure in place, low-cost rental and<br />
leasehold schemes for real estate.<br />
Reduced logistics expenses<br />
Utilization of existing supply chains.<br />
■ Size: 50 m2 ,<br />
extendable to approx. 200 m2 ■ Rent: from 14.00 €/m2 per<br />
month, plus service charges<br />
■ Modern infrastructure<br />
■ Flexibly adaptable<br />
■ Can be occupied at short notice<br />
■ Close to production facilities<br />
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<strong>IPW</strong> Insight<br />
■ Size: from 1,500 m2 to 6.5 hectares<br />
■ Price: rent from 0.30 €/m2 per month (fully developed)<br />
■ Supply & drainage: potable/process<br />
water, rainwater/wastewater sewers<br />
■ Utility supplies: natural gas, steam<br />
(up to 20 bar), electric power/<br />
medium-high voltage (5KV/20KV)<br />
■ In-park rail connection<br />
■ Misc.: various conduits<br />
(for IT, communications etc.)<br />
■ Fire-fighting water supply<br />
■ Permit/approval management<br />
■ Engineering<br />
■ Procurement<br />
(incl. raw materials)<br />
■ Logistics<br />
■ Security service<br />
■ Quality management<br />
■ Energy<br />
■ Fire prevention<br />
■ IT, telecommunications<br />
■ Workshops<br />
■ Technical services<br />
■ Fire service<br />
Optimized human resource requirements<br />
Appropriate range of services from recruiting<br />
to engineering “on demand”.<br />
Strong community<br />
Profiting from “economy of size”, rapid integration<br />
into the region.<br />
www.industriepark-walsrode.com · Info: office@industriepark-walsrode.de<br />
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6<br />
Business Location Germany<br />
Support scheme for SMEs<br />
Investment<br />
start-up grants<br />
The former administrative district of<br />
Lüneburg is a development area aided<br />
by the European Union until 2013.<br />
Under this scheme the rural district<br />
of Soltau-Fallingbostel and its towns<br />
and boroughs can be awarded investment<br />
grants for small and mediumsized<br />
enterprises (SMEs). The investment<br />
grant is non-repayable and may<br />
amount to a maximum of 15 per cent<br />
of the investment sum qualifying for<br />
an EU business grant in the case<br />
of small enterprises and up to 7.5<br />
per cent in the case of medium-sized<br />
companies.<br />
Eligibility for an SME<br />
investment grant:<br />
■ Company registered or about<br />
to be registered in the rural<br />
district of Soltau-Fallingbostel<br />
■ Applications may be submitted<br />
by: businesses in industry,<br />
crafts, commerce, hotel and<br />
service enterprises<br />
■ Small or medium-sized<br />
enterprise<br />
■ The investment has not yet<br />
begun<br />
Alongside the grants obtainable<br />
through the rural district, there are<br />
further grant schemes offered by<br />
the NBank. In particular companies<br />
achieving their turnover predominantly<br />
beyond the region may receive<br />
subsidies from the joint programme<br />
for “Improvement of Regional Economic<br />
Structure”.<br />
For more information on<br />
the SME grants scheme,<br />
the rural district’s guidelines and<br />
the application forms, log onto the<br />
websites www.soltau-fallingbostel.de<br />
and www.nbank.de<br />
Source: www.soltau-fallingbostel.de<br />
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Wage costs<br />
EU comparison shows:<br />
Germany regains ground<br />
The wage costs for businesses in Europe are rising – but in no country is the increase<br />
as low as in Germany. According to the German Federal Statistical Office, the<br />
labour costs rose by 1.1% as compared with the 2nd quarter of 2006. A similarly<br />
low increase was registered in no other EU member country. Sweden reported a<br />
rise of 2.3%, followed by Finland and Malta (2.6% each), Austria and Belgium<br />
(2.7% each). In Poland and the Czech Republic the labour costs rose by 11.4% and<br />
7.7% respectively. The highest increases were in Latvia (31.7%) and Romania<br />
(23.4%). With a rise in wage costs of 3.5%, France also exceeded the EU average of<br />
3.3%.<br />
Economic survey<br />
Industrial companies<br />
are optimistic<br />
There continues to be a positive<br />
mood, as almost 90 per cent of businesses<br />
in the area covered by the<br />
Lüneburg-Wolfsburg Chamber of<br />
Industry and Commerce are content<br />
with the current economic climate.<br />
The majority of industrial enterprises<br />
also rate the situation as good. This is<br />
the outcome of the Chamber’s recent<br />
economic survey, according to which<br />
50 per cent of the companies asked<br />
said they were planning to expand<br />
their capacities. The charts show current<br />
expectations in the mechanical<br />
engineering, chemical and business<br />
services sectors.<br />
Chemical industry<br />
Order intakes have improved considerably,<br />
allowing a positive outlook.<br />
Exports are likely to slacken as<br />
compared with the previous year.<br />
59 %<br />
41 %<br />
More information on the economic<br />
climate in the region at:<br />
www.ihk24-lueneburg.de<br />
and navigate to: Standortpolitik/Wirtschaftspolitik<br />
Business services<br />
This sector is for the most part<br />
satisfied, and profits have risen<br />
slightly, but forecasts have been<br />
scaled down.<br />
54 %<br />
Mechanical engineering<br />
Order books continue to be well filled<br />
and the forecasts are optimistic.<br />
Profits followed a positive trend and<br />
some of them will be reinvested.<br />
24 %<br />
20 %<br />
11 %<br />
35 %<br />
56 %<br />
Good Medium Poor<br />
Source: IHK Lüneburg-Wolfsburg
1st Education Conference<br />
Fit for<br />
the future<br />
Making children and young people fit<br />
for the future – with this goal in its<br />
sights, the rural district of Soltau-<br />
Fallingbostel plans to set up a Bureau<br />
of Education to cluster together and<br />
enhance the region’s vocational education<br />
and training (VET) activities. This is<br />
the outcome of the 1st Education Conference<br />
held in <strong>Walsrode</strong> in mid-October.<br />
Representatives of the local communities,<br />
private and public education<br />
institutions, business and industry took<br />
part in the event, confirming their interest<br />
in improving the region’s education<br />
and training landscape. Their joint<br />
objective is to work closer together in<br />
a bid to provide the best possible education<br />
and vocational training opportunities<br />
for children, juveniles and adults.<br />
“To secure jobs, we need qualified<br />
young people,” said Dr Karl Krähling<br />
of Dow Wolff Cellulosics, stressing the<br />
regional economic community’s high<br />
level of interest in the project. The<br />
participants requested that the Bureau<br />
of Education take up its work in the<br />
course of the coming year.<br />
Companies at the Industrial Park<br />
CaseTech GmbH<br />
Focusing on sausages<br />
Linking tradition with modernday<br />
needs can be achieved successfully,<br />
as is proven by CaseTech. Based in<br />
the Industrial Park <strong>Walsrode</strong>, this<br />
company produces high-quality<br />
casings used for producing sausages,<br />
and in addition it provides technical<br />
services and support to the meat processing<br />
industry and to the butcher’s<br />
trade. Sausage casings have been<br />
manufactured at this location since<br />
as early as 1928 and are marketed<br />
under the brand name of <strong>Walsrode</strong>r<br />
Casings.<br />
In terms of quality, <strong>Walsrode</strong>r Casings<br />
have set standards in the course of<br />
the past seven decades and they<br />
undergo continual upgrading at the<br />
<strong>IPW</strong>. “Our certified production process<br />
and our fully-equipped pilot<br />
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sausagemaking facility ensure prime<br />
quality,” says Managing Director<br />
Jürgen Schuh. Today the company<br />
which emerged from the artificial<br />
casings division of the former Wolff<br />
<strong>Walsrode</strong> AG is committed to highlevel<br />
research, state-of-the-art production<br />
and customized finishing<br />
and services – all from a single source.<br />
And that’s not all: CaseTech is one<br />
of the few suppliers around the globe<br />
to offer not only coated and uncoated<br />
cellulose fibrous casings but also a<br />
broad range of polymer casings.<br />
CaseTech pays a lot of attention to<br />
the visual appeal of its sausage<br />
casings. Whether for customized,<br />
standard or butcher’s prints, entire<br />
series of graphic images or individual<br />
print designs – CaseTech operates one<br />
of the world’s leading special-purpose<br />
printing works and is thus able to<br />
print casings by the flexographic<br />
process with up to eight colours. In<br />
Germany, Eastern Europe and in the<br />
USA, CaseTech has approximately 420<br />
employees, some 240 of whom work<br />
in the <strong>IPW</strong>.<br />
More information at:<br />
www.walsroder.de<br />
www.industriepark-walsrode.com · Info: office@industriepark-walsrode.de<br />
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Dates<br />
ChemSpecEurope 2008<br />
18/19 June 2008<br />
Munich Trade Fair Centre<br />
Stand 416<br />
Imprint<br />
Published by:<br />
Dow Wolff Cellulosics GmbH<br />
Industrial Park Office<br />
PO Box 1662<br />
29656 <strong>Walsrode</strong>, Germany<br />
Tel.: +49 5161 44-3086<br />
Fax: +49 5161 44-143086<br />
Editor:<br />
Torsten Wyszniewski<br />
office@industriepark-walsrode.de<br />
www.industriepark-walsrode.com<br />
Text & layout:<br />
Ulrich Kommunikation, Hannover<br />
www.u-kom.com<br />
Printed by:<br />
Druckcenter <strong>Walsrode</strong><br />
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