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www.ensinger-online.com Issue 3/2002 “I like the motivation and enthusiasm of the ENSINGER employees“ Dr. Roland Reber is the new Managing Director at ENSINGER In this issue: and Dr. Roland Reber now manage Reber contributes business experi- the subject of technical plastics. Page 2 the business of ENSINGER GmbH ence. He worked for the Boston Con- “I am convinced that, in all com- Editorial jointly. Reber is in charge of oper- sulting Group in Zürich for three panies, one of the most important ENSINGER introduces CATIVA V5 ations and strategic direction of the years, and it is in this capacity that prerequisites for success is the quali- VESPEL® CR Semi-finished Products Group. In he knows ENSINGER GmbH, where ty and motivation of the employees,“ addition, he is responsible for the EN- he was active on two projects. “The says Reber. That is why it is so impor- SINGER Group’s steering concept, duties of a strategic business consul- tant to have an environment in which Page 3 which is based on uniform strategic tant are many and varied,” the new all the employees can make a signifi- ENSINGER football team in and financial aspects. These include, Managing Director explains. Impor- cant contribution, and where it is England for example, strategic planning pro- tant aspects are, for example, busi- possible to talk openly about any Competition solution cesses, or international control. ness analyses and project manage- subject. And his leisure activities? Works Council Elections 2002 Reber, 33, was born in Basle, Swit- ment, but also the recruitment of Cycling, squash, sailing and cooking zerland. He studied material techno- new employees, or transfer of know- are among his favourites. “I am look- Page logy at the ETH Zürich and the EPF ledge within the company. Asked ing forward very much to working 4 A hearty welcome Lausanne, and wrote his doctorate why he decided on ENSINGER, he together with the ENSINGER em- Anniversarys Dr. Roland Reber thesis on the topic of “Woven Fabric cited the high motivation and the ployees, and to my new duties,“ the Instructors and teachers at Reinforced Compound Materials in enthusiasm of the ENSINGER em- new Managing Director summed up. ENSINGER GmbH Since the 3rd of June, there are “two Carbon Fibre/PEEK and Glass Fib- ployees, the attractive size, the And we wish him the best of luck The same procedure as every captains of the ship”; Klaus Ensinger re/PET“. As a business consultant, growth of the company, and not least in doing so! year What does he do? ENSINGER expands Asians activities Page 5 Representative agency opened in Shanghai The impulse Interview 100 percent testing at ENSINGER GmbH now has a pre- tinuously. More and more semi- investors. And all the data indicates products and services from roughly ENSINGER sence in China. The representative finished and finished parts are that China is still on the “sunny side 500 exhibitors from more than 20 The paint must go! agency in Shanghai opened on May needed, he continues. And although of the economy”. China’s imports countries. Not only China, but also 15. With branch offices in Japan and the Chinese plastics processors have and exports are growing steadily, the USA, Canada, Germany, Italy, the Singapore, China is now ENSIN- caught up dramatically, their techno- with a total of US$ 509 billion last UK, Austria and Korea have their own Page 6 GER’s third pillar in the Asia region. logies still lag far behind those of the year. The gross domestic product pavilions. ENSINGER UK “We have opened a representative western industrial nations. According averaged 8.3 percent over the last The Wilfried Ensinger Prize agency in Shanghai because there is to the Marketing and Sales Manager, five years. ENSINGER do Brazil is certified a great potential for engineering many of the international companies The representative agency in Lothar Meyer new manager of plastics in China“, says Martin Baras, that are investing in China also rely Shanghai is intended to market the Building Products division Marketing and Sales Manager at on high-quality plastics. ENSINGER’S products and services Comic ENSINGER GmbH. The demand for More than 1500 German companies in China, establish business relations, engineering plastics for high-tech are present in China, either with and build up a sales network. Man- products in China is growing con- representative agencies or as capital ager of the representative agency is Dong Ruxun. Ruxun studied Busi- ness Administration for two years at ENSINGER supports school the Steinbeis College in Berlin and Stuttgart. Ruxun did several periods project in Nigeria of practical work at ENSINGER, where he got to know all depart- Father Mmagu visits Nufringen ments – from production to adminis- tration. Ruxun will also represent “Robbing children of their childhood too, supports the school project in ENSINGER with a stand at China’s means systematically destroying a Nigeria financially. At the beginning biggest international plastics fair – whole society.” These are the words of April, the Priest visited Martha Chinaplas 2002, which takes place of Dr. Ndubueze Fabian Mmagu, and Wilfried Ensinger in Nufringen to from the 25th to the 29th of June in M.A. The Roman Catholic priest from bring them up to date on his project. Shanghai. The exhibition area of The Nanzheng building in Shanghai. Location Nigeria, whose parish is Großpeters- Mmagu said that the most important 36,000 square metres will display of ENSINGER’s representative office dorf in Austria, is the initiator of a things for him are above all the school project in Nigeria. The aim is to long-term care of the school project, improve the prospects of children and international cooperation with and young people through education. other schools and teachers. “We Little Lateral Thinker Because, in the most populous want it to be a school with practical country in Africa, the illiteracy rate is perspectives for the future,” says the comic strip alarmingly high – almost 28 percent priest. For a better childhood and a of men and more than 44 percent of better life. Symbol of ENSINGER’s philosophy women can neither read nor write. One of the reasons for this is without How do you get a central message needed, too. There is no other way to doubt the fact that many children in across concisely, clearly and humo- achieve innovative results, which in Nigeria are unable to start school, or rously? In a comic strip, of course! turn is the only way to attain the are forced to drop out of school, That’s why every issue of impulse optimum for the customer. And pre- because of financial need. Addition- from now on will have a comic strip cisely that is the theme of the comic ally, many young people leave featuring the Little Lateral Thinker. strips. The brief scenarios have to do school without taking leaving exams, The figure of the Little Lateral Thinker with the Little Lateral Thinker (alias in order to make quick money. Their is a symbol of the ENSINGER phil- ENSINGER) succeeding again and chances of receiving further educa- osophy of ASK. THINK. SUCCEED., again in arriving at innovative solu- tion are then remote. The erection of and stands for the capability of tions through creative engineering the school in the village of Nimo is ENSINGER employees to think “un- competence. Creator of the Little La- financed for the most part by dona- conventionally“. Because technically teral Thinker is the well-known artist tions, cultural benefit events, and perfect solutions require not only Otmar Alt, who made the sculpture support from the Church and the optimal materials, suitable produc- out of 42 different ENSINGER plastic State Government of the Austrian Dr. Ndubueze Fabian Mmagu M.A. visited tion processes and sector knowled- parts. You’ll find the first comic strip province of Burgenland. ENSINGER, Martha and Wilfried Ensinger in Nufringen ge – a good portion of creativity is on Page 6, by the way! Editorial Dear Reader, existing sales channels, which to convince the regionally active I would like to extend a hearty wel- purchased their products from do- technical trade to add technical come to my new partner in manage- It is interesting to ob- mestic competitors. But instead, he semi-finished products to their range ment, Dr. Roland Reber. You can read serve to what extent visited dealers and millers all over of products. They were to take care more about his professional back- whole sectors of indus- France to gain an understanding of of the low-level, regional distribution ground and his objectives at ENSIN- try depend on the achie- how the products could reach the of the product volume, and also to GER in this issue of impulse (Page 1 vements of individual end users, and how they could re- offer technical advice through and Page 5). Dr. Reber knows ENSIN- personalities, pioneers place existing materials or be com- specially hired and trained sales- GER from two projects as part of his in the truest sense of the pounded with them. He also investi- people.As a newcomer to the sector, work as a consultant. Many of our word. Our sector is no gated the expectations of the end he took a considerable risk against employees at that time got to know different from others in users and the retailers, who visited his established competitors. But he him as an active, creative personality. this respect. In the area the engineering offices, and what had done his maths, convinced peo- We are very pleased that he has of semi-finished pro- measures could be employed to ple, and won.

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