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“We call the new factory the most ef? cient Rudderpropeller plant in the world because ef? ciency has been achieved in every conceivable area here.”

Prof. Dr.-Ing Gerhard Jensen, CEO SCHOTTEL culmination of two years of construction time and new machinery park. Thanks to the mechanical pro- a $49.6m investment, and includes four produc- duction facility, the company is able to ef? ciently tion and assembly halls (up to 270m long and 18m produce all of the essential parts of the Rudderpro- high) and a three-story building for administration, peller in-house. The largest multi-axis turning/mill- social and technical purposes. In total this amounts ing center for the machining of structural support to 23,000 sq. m. of production and of? ce space. The tubes (with a diameter of up to 5m) and gear box development of the industrial area “Budenbach,” housings (with a machining height of 5m) offers which is the new site of SCHOTTEL, has been sup- a payload of 120 tons. The new cranes for lifting ported by the Ministry of Economics by the Euro- range from 10 to 50 tons are also noteworthy, and pean Fund for Regional Development (EFRE) with they can be retro? tted for up to 100 tons should this some $1.2m. become necessary in the future. “This safeguards

The new plant will comprise 290 jobs in produc- our know-how while ensuring availability and con- tion and administration, and about 20 young people sistently high quality,” said Jensen. will be primarily trained in the following profes- Besides the plant in Dörth, SCHOTTEL has fur- sions: industrial mechanics, cutting machine opera- ther manufacturing facilities in Wismar (Germany) tors, technicians and technical product designer. and Suzhou (China). They are all modern facilities

The factory has been designed using the latest and are regularly updated according to the state-of- methods and is so versatile that it can be adapted to the-art. changing requirements over the long term. With the new site, SCHOTTEL will increase its production HW Elektrotechnik capacity by roughly 30%. Added to this, the new site of the SCHOTTEL

In addition, SCHOTTEL has invested heavily in a subsidiary HW Elektrotechnik – with about 4,200

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