visiting shaft sinking company

For an interested observer of economic trends, it is always interesting where young entrepreneurs are up against experienced and successful companies handlebars. That was yesterday once more the case during the visit of the junior members of the business of the company Nord GmbH in Nordhausen, shaft sinking ...

For the visit to provide insight into the company's history, mandate and scope of production and factory tour two hours were provided. With the adoption by Thoralf Wilke, authorized the company had passed more than three hours. During the development of young entrepreneurs and impressions about current events in the narrower and broader strategic, economic, but also the spatial sense of the company have been taught.

First it was Jürgen Counties, CEO of the company, gave an overview of its structure, the privatized after the fall (in 1992) and has since become the Bauer Group - a family-owned - in Schrobenhausen (near Augsburg) belongs. Counties did not last long in the development of the company under his leadership, so since 1993. Although just this phase of a mining specialist service in GDR times a pronounced modern, internationally-focused technology companies is very interesting. The archive of nnz contains numerous articles in recent history, which are characterized by Jürgen Counties.

First, however, the young entrepreneurs essential heard about the farmer's group, which is the holding company for 7 years and with its stock exchange listed 8-10000 employees fairly strong leader in the fragmented domestic market in the civil engineering works. And represents one of the world's largest companies. Worldwide, more than 110 subsidiaries in 70 countries around the group, which generates more than two thirds of its services abroad. The business is divided into three areas: Construction, Equipment and Resources. The Group reports annual sales of approximately € 1.4 billion, but was recorded in 2009 by the economic downturn, a slump from which he recovered but in the following year again.

Subsequently Counties described in matter-of-jovial manner, the structure of the company they run, as far as to better understand the entrepreneurial tasks seemed necessary. Shaft sinking employs approximately 900 employees, cooperates with the university since 2003 Nordhausen and training company is recognized as absolute. Of the approximately 80 employees in the apprenticeship. Counties often relativized by the way the alleged general lack of skilled workers: he distinguished himself as well in certain specific areas, but overall is in such a far-sighted planning and training specialists in any case not really as dramatic as it is often claimed.

Also, shaft sinking has according to the statements Counties on corporate connections and investments at home and abroad, ranging up to Kazakhstan and overseas, made while at the same attention to the sometimes complicated or difficult set of connections and negotiating tours, often in completely different mentality and economic view of the potential partners have their reasons.

After this overview Counties showed on the main engineering fields his company realized in the infrastructure construction shaft construction for public and private clients at home and discharge at the engineering and reconstruction. These include bridges, their assembly, shunting, but also repairs and strengthening and upgrading of steel structures. Counties shown in the computational examples in each lecture.

In machine and plant manufactures and assembles shaft construction for national and international clients under modern conditions of the special civil engineering products, mining and bridge construction. Offer scope for the engineering part of this assembly, welding and machining for the undercarriage. The portfolio (job offer) is complemented by activities in the field of environmental engineering with the departments of biogas and water management. Their volume is increasing rapidly and now occupies a wide range of offerings.

In the traditional area of ​​mining shaft sinking focuses on the planning and execution of special mining services for all types of vertical and horizontal mining operations worldwide. The company is also active in the excavation of underground lines in the storage of low and medium radioactive waste. Gorleben Konrad or are examples of the execution of such contracts.

After Jürgen had finished his presentation and he answered Counties asked questions, invited Thoralf Wilke attorney for guidance by the extensive grounds and a huge production halls. In the following, saw and learned a lot about the JCI, the manufacturing of parts, assembly - about mobile drilling units and weigh - and the loading and delivery of bridge parts to road transport. It fell to the exceptionally clear information provided to Wilkes, which illustrated the previously heard of Counties. And for the Junior Chamber (and Rapporteur) should have brought an enormous enrichment of knowledge about the largest industrial companies in the region with its extensive range of supply and production with it.