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10 People at PROBAT Gerhard A. Jansen Head Research and Development Retirement After 40 Years at PROBAT He did not respond to a job advertisement in a newspaper but drove directly to Emmerich to announce himself to the gate keeper and introduce himself personally in the company. That was in 1966 and Gerhard A. Jansen’s unsolicited application was to play an important role in his life. „I was looking for a challenge after my university studies and the competency of the market leader PROBAT made me curious“, Jansen recalls. The Dutch-born Jansen didn’t want to work in a big anonymous corporation. Rather, his aim was to get ahead in a medium-sized enterprise. As a structural designer in roasting machine construction his first project was the R-roaster series. He took up the job of deputy head of research and development as early as 1980. The trust he received from PROBAT during his employment is something Jansen looks back upon fondly: „When my wife was in hospital and was having our second baby I was able to work from home and take care of the family. A drawing board was purchased especially for this purpose and delivered to my home.“ In 2001 he took over the position of head of research and development which he will be leaving at the end of this year. The family man will be attending to his family more in the future to ensure that he isn’t someday confronted with the question: „Wouldn’t it have been better to have stopped working earlier?“ Instead, he would rather hear himself someday say: „I should have worked at PROBAT even longer after all!“, Jansen laughs. Thomas Koziorowski Technical Director (Affiliated companies) Gerhard A. Jansen, Head of Research and Development, is leaving the company. The present Technical Director (affiliated companies), Thomas Koziorowski, will be taking over his responsibilities. The specialist for roasting unit technology will continue to be held in fond memory by PROBAT in the future too. „Roasting Coffee – Magic, Art and Science“, is the name of the book Jansen wrote, in which he condenses his experience and specialist knowledge and makes it available to more than only his successor and his colleagues. The compact reference book can be obtained by any interested persons as it will become available in late November (German edition: ISBN10: 3-937889-52-3; ISBN13: 978-3-937889-52-8, English edition: ISBN-10: 3-937889-57-4; ISBN-13: 978-3-937889-57-3). Information on how to obtain the English edition is available at PROBAT. Thomas Koziorowski will be succeeding Gerhard A. Jansen at the beginning of next year. PROBAT isn’t an alien company for him. He has already worked on the premises of PROBAT for its affiliated company GOTHOT since the beginning of 1998 and has been the technical director of PROBAT’s affiliated companies since February 2001. Mr Koziorowski is looking forward to an exiting an interesting job and to the fact that he can also contribute to PROBAT’s continued progress. He wishes Mr Jansen all the best, especially to keep well and fit, and hopes he will always be ready to help if need be. PROBAT too would like to thank Mr Jansen for his loyal contributions to the company and wishes him all the best. At the same time, PROBAT is pleased that Mr Koziorowski, as someone from within the company, will be taking over the important job of heading research and development.
Trade Fair Dates Here you can find information about current trade fair dates and events. 30 Jan–2 Feb 2007 Upakowka, Moscow, Russia www.messe-duesseldorf.de/upakovka/de 9–13 Feb 2007 7th German Barista Championship and 2nd German Roasting Championship during the Ambiente, Frankfurt, Germany www.ambiente.messefrankfurt.com 15–17 Feb 2007 4th African Fine Conference & Exhibition, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia www.eafca.org 23–25 Feb 2007 IICF India International Coffee Festival, Bangalore, India www.iicf.in Show Your Colours Insights and Outlook 11 PROBAT is moving into the future with a structured and distinct corporate design. A new concept for internal and external communication provides an improved orientation for customers and staff. Accents are placed on a clear colour scheme as well as a well-structured dispartment of company departments. The social scientist Jürgen Habermas talks about an age of „new ambiguity“. The background to this statement is the realisation that the identity of a company is less and less apparent via its products. National and international mergers, diversification of production, opening up new areas of business and sectors are some of the reasons for this. The resulting increasing loss of orientation, however, stands in contrast to basic human needs for orientation. In this way, the decisions at PROBAT are backed up by sensible and technically sound considerations. In order to address the circumstances described by Habermas adequately in the forefront, PROBAT has decided to introduce a new corporate design. The new coherent communications concept is oriented on the results of the above-mentioned developments. It offers PROBAT’s customers as well as staff members the best possible communication structure and also aims at strengthening the market leader’s position. The high level of quality of products and services remains untouched. Colours, script and lucid design language will be given a new structure and link up with the quality claims of PROBAT’s products. The colour grey stands for the company at large, whereby everything having to do with technology takes place with the colour blue. Red represents the area of emotions which presents coffee as a natural stimulant with various facets. The new colour scheme The colour scheme selected, with its clear separation of „emotion“ and „technology“, allows a thematic mapping at first glance. Overarching communication issues representing PROBAT at large are transported by the neutral colour grey. It canvasses the other areas and thus documents the company’s unity. The communication area „emotion“ demands a warm, clear and signalling colour. Following the coffeeberry and the existing colour scheme in the PROBAT environment red is the clear favourite. The colour of „technology“ is blue. Blue is defined as matter-of-fact, precise and timeless in the theory of colours.
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