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SCHOTTEL’s New Plant in Dörth

The Gowth of a Company, the Future of a Village

Germany’s SCHOTTEL continued its Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Jensen, CEO of the our worldwide leading position also in

SCHOTTEL invests in successful course in 2014. With a global SCHOTTEL group. “It begins with the the future. When it came to the question new Rudderpropeller workforce of more than 1,200 it achieved connection to the existing traf? c system where to build a new factory we decided sales of EUR $377.9m, a growth of around and continues on to well thought-out lo- to stay in our region in Rheinland-Pfalz.

Plant and expands at the nine percent on 2013. In an environment, gistics. This includes a completely roofed Here are our roots, and here are our em- characterized by increasing competition incoming goods and shipping area and ployees” said Jensen.

same time its production and concentration, the strategy of the Ger- an intelligent ? ow of materials based on “The establishment of SCHOTTEL capacity man propulsion specialists has paid off an optimum overall layout of the factory. shows clearly that the investment has paid once again, and underlines the leading Quality assurance is directly next to in- off and different further companies al- position that it has occupied in the marine coming goods and shipping, and the dis- ready decided to build up new operations

By Peter Pospiech propulsion system market. tances for employees in production and in Dörth”, said Rheinland-Pfalz Economic production-related areas are short, despite Affairs Minister Eveline Lemke. “Young

The New Factory the large size of the factory. Further ef? - people do not see any professional oppor- “We call the new factory the most ef? - ciency gains and ? exibility are, of course, tunities and moving away. Companies like cient Rudderpropeller plant in the world also achieved through the versatility of the SCHOTTEL create long-term perspec- because ef? ciency has been achieved in new machinery. The new factory provides tives.” every conceivable area here,” explained us with the basis to cement and expand The new production facilities are the

Images (Clockwise starting right): 1 1. Vertical shaft production; 2. Shrink ? tting of shaft and bevel gear; 3. Assembly of a

Rudderpropeller; and 4. Aerial view of the new SCHOTTEL plant.

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