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KLINGER NEWS Group Magazine 04/2014 www.klinger-international.com IMPRESSUM Publisher: KLINGER Holding GmbH Am Kanal 8-10 / A-2352 Gumpoldskirchen Global Communications: Miroslava Stanic Layout: vorauerfriends communications gmbh Traunufer-Arkade 1, 4609 Thalheim bei Wels EDITORIAL Welcome to this new edition of the our obsession for high quality products, KLINGER NEWS! our technical expertise and our people We dedicated this edition to the topic who do their job with this certain sparkling excellence. We present the various di- in their eyes. These three elements – pro- mensions of excellence which we have ducts, know-how and our people – are found in our KLINGER world. Let us core elements of our company success start with where it all comes from. As and the foundation for exceeding our KLINGER Group we have formulated our customers’ satisfaction. The willingness to mission around five values: deliver excellence is a commitment and a value. As a group, we strive to have this 1) Invest in people and have them learn value as well as an intrinsic part of our from the best. KLINGER’s corporate culture. 2) Serve our customers with expertise, Enjoy the reading and discover how we in- integrity and passion. terpret excellence in the KLINGER Group. 3) Foster innovation exceeding current industry standards. 4) Extend technology leadership to pro- cess and service excellence. 5) Develop industry and region specific solutions, optimizing product lifecycle costs. Dr. Christoph Klinger-Lohr Business Development Director Our mission guides all our activities and is the foundation of our business. We are committed to anticipating, understanding and meeting our customers’ needs and expectations. Expanding a business over generations requires a passion for excel- lence. It combines high quality products, experience and passion. We do this with trusted. worldwide. 2|3 INDEX » 06-07 KLINGER Group Award » 12-13 » 14-15 Picking up Steam Combining the best-suited materials » 18-19 Delivering Know-how » 26-27 Tool Time INDEX » 08-09 » 10-11 Shaping the Future Going Green » 16-17 Centering on Excellence » 20-21 » 22-23 » 24-25 Meet. Learn. Exchange Demanding Food The southern most & Beverage solution gasket of the world » 28-29 » 30 Tool Time KAMing out KLINGER UK wins International Trade Award. » 31 KLINGER Group presented at the Valve World 2014 trusted. worldwide. 4|5 KLINGER GROUP AWARD Who has gone the extra mile. Company Level Winner KLINGER Gebetsroither during their celebration We acknowledge the crucial role our people KLINGER Group Award Winner on was identified. However, to participate play in ensuring our company success. Hard 2013 – Company level: in that new field, new products and know- and continuous work of our people is KLINGER Gebetsroither how were required. Over the last four ye- recognized. We reward our employees who Achievement: Highest sales with ars, KLINGER Gebetsroither succeeded go the „extra mile“ beyond their normal new KLINGER products in both and has proven that a close look job duties. As an internal competition the Recognizing trends is essential to keep the BEYOND the existing market environment KLINGER Group Award rewards companies market leader role. Constant search and can open strategic options, and with them as well as employees for delivering top awareness is necessary to recognize early avenues to very lucrative business. performance for our customers day in, day new trends. But not only spotting trends out. is needed, you also need to adjust your or- ganisation to take the lead in such trends. But how does KLINGER define company KLINGER Gebetsroither, our Austrian Ser- success? Of course, high sales are one of the vice & Distribution company, experienced most important key performance indicators. such a situation as their market started to Moreover, success within the KLINGER saturate. While the largest Austrian cities Group also means promoting innovations and towns had been equipped with hea- and maybe even more important: it also ting supply networks over the last deca- signifies focusing on our customers‘ needs. des, most recently only little investments As we kicked off the KLINGER Group were approved to extend networks and Award 2014 the last month, we would like build in new components. Partly driven to present you the winners of the KLINGER by an increasing alternative energy supply Group Awards 2013. (gas), a trend to more local heat producti- KLINGER NEWS 01/2015 Marc van der Linden / Business Development Manager / KLINGER Sogefiltres Gary Sheldon / Precision Engineering Manager / KLINGER UK KLINGER Group Award Winner automated with Air Torque actuators and ruited to head the production side of the 2013 – Individual Level: Westlock switchboxes. The benefit for the business. A time-served press tool maker Marc van der Linden customer is obvious: Reduced procure- by trade, Gary has strived to introduce Achievement: ment complexity as all needed products procedures and working practices to en- Inter-Company Benefit and know-how is available from one single sure all production demands are met or Monsanto is becoming another global supplier source. This inter-company colla- exceeded. Doing so, he did not only con- customer who is served from multiple boration represented excellent group col- tribute to generate significant turnover in KLINGER companies. Even though their laboration and had to be rewarded. 2013 but he also introduced a very valuab- Antwerp site was constructed already in le addition to the KLINGER product port- 1965, the industrial dynamics of that region KLINGER Group Award Winner folio… in UK and BEYOND. maintained it as key chemical complex to 2013 – Individual Level: supply both internal and external custo- Gary Sheldon All the winners did a great job and we mers such as Solutia, Ferro Corporation Achievement: want to congratulate them once again. and Henkel. Product Innovation Marc van der Linden is our expert from For some time the UK market, in particu- For the KLINGER Group Award 2014, KLINGER Sogrefiltres in Belgium. Marc had larly the profitable off-shore business, has same procedure as every year: a lead role to repeatedly list KLINGER So- been looking for a company to be more The winners will be announced in the first géfiltres as preferred supplier for valve and re-active in meeting service demands for half of 2015. steam products. His intense collaboration specialty ring joints. with KLINGER Schöneberg enabled the KLINGER Group to customize a package When KLINGER Precision was establis- including Intec stainless steel ball valves, hed in April 2012, Gary Sheldon was rec- trusted. worldwide. 6|7 SHAPING THE FUTURE KLINGER Gebetsroither provides full range of valves for Arsenal district heating plant. „Wien Energie“ is Aus- tria‘s largest utility. It supplies around 2 million people as well as more than 230,000 industrial, agricultu- ral and commercial facilities in Vi- enna and its periphery with electri- city, natural gas and district heating. KLINGER Gebetsroither is pro- viding excellence for the energy company‘s latest addition to the Viennese district heating network: The Arsenal district heating plant. With its distinctive design, characterized by a single row of windows cut into the slanting facade, the new Arsenal facility is guaranteed to turn a few heads, and not only among tho- se generally interested in architecture. Pas- sers-by might even be tempted to mistake it for a futuristic office building – it is, however, the latest district heating plant of the Vien- nese energy utility „Wien Energie“. A KLINGER Gebetsroither expert on the premises of „Wien Energie“ Fast rewind to the year 2012. The old district heating plant, operated by „Wien Energie“ At the heart of the matter protection, but can also be used as shut-off since 1970 and repeatedly enlarged, is nea- Generally speaking, the new facility consists valves. This means that the number of planned ring the end of its economic lifetime and must of a boiler hall with two hot water boilers, valves can be reduced from two to one, be shut down as it will not be approved for a pumping station, engineering rooms, a gas which is crucial for installation in tight spaces. further utilization. A plan to erect a new plant, control station and the system control cen- KLINGER Gebetsroither was subsequently situated on the premises of „Wien Energie“ ters. The pumping station, featuring seven awarded a contract to supply the full range of next to the historic Viennese landmark, the circulation pumps and corresponding valve valves, including ball valves and the aforemen- „Arsenal“, is set in motion. The Zauner Group stations, is literally and functionally the „he- tioned butterfly/non-return valves. The order and Habau are brought on board as gene- art“ of the facility. From here, water is distri- amounted to a total of 1.9 million euros. ral contractors and construction begins in buted throughout Vienna and heated via the December 2012. hot water boilers. Energy from within and without The plant, which runs on natural gas or hea- Challenging construction As city-based power plants are typically cha- vy fuel oil as a substitute fuel in the event of As is to be expected, erecting a district hea- racterized by tight spaces, the valves had to gas shortages, was connected to the district ting plant almost right in the middle of Vienna meet very specific requirements. Looking heating grid in July 2014. Trial operation is comes with its own set of unique challenges. for solutions, Wien Energie promptly cont- scheduled to begin in December of this year. An entry in the „Wien Energie“-blog, dating acted KLINGER Gebetsroither. Renowned A fully operational status will presumably be back to February 2014, serves to illustrate for its excellence in the provision of valves achieved by mid-2015. The plant will main- this fact: „The chimneys arrived from Den- for all kinds of purposes and environments, ly be used to cover peaks in demand and mark and have been lifted into position.