Material handling euquipment builders overcome the crisis without short-time
The mechanical engineer Askania has come well through the crisis.
SANGER HAUSEN / MZ. The Sanger Houses Askania engineering company has come without staff cuts and reduced working hours due to the economic crisis. Given the company had every reason to celebrate this year the 20th anniversary of the founding companies, "said CEO Ralf nickel plating (57).
Nickelplated reinforces the good results with numbers. Accordingly, in recent years have experienced a steady increase in sales and now lies almost constant at two million euros. "This year we will not do the job safely, since the economic crisis has left us not quite over," says nickel plating. However, he felt a slight upturn at present, the order situation was improving.
The operating company has also left Germany already in Poland and Spain in his footsteps, but those were more the exceptions. Rather, we focus on jobs in the region. This Askania is primarily for full-suppliers. In the house, for example, carriers manufactured or stainless steel container. The company has, in bakery products terminal in Eisleben left portion of the production, but also in Pilzhof Wallhausen its tracks, says the CEO.
But the company history was from 1990 to today is not always easy, Petra Alex knows from personal experience. The Vice Chairwoman is almost 25 years in the company and has the highs and lows of the turning point witnessed. "Without Alfred Hoyer there was no longer operating," she pays tribute to the late members of the first hour. He had retired as a major part in the privatization. There were also painful moments. Alex, remembers the fact that in 1990 nearly half of the 60-strong workforce was laid off. But the financial problems the company was only into the handle after Hoyer had a loan after a long battle with the former Treuhand over 1.1 million D-Mark "literally begged" says Petra Alex. "Today the company stands on healthy feet," says nickel plating. 38 employees, including apprentices, are earning their bread.