K-WERT-No.18-GB.Pdf (2.0

der k-wert T h e K A E F E R - H o u s e M a g a z i n e N o 1. 8 Elbe Tunnel Employee-financed Retirement Plan KAEFER in Portugal Insultec, Thailand Contents SHIPBUILDING 12/13 Olympic Voyager WORK SAFETY / QUALITY MANAGEMENT 14 General Contract for Galleys 10 Safety Year 2000 for Bremerhaven 10 Applause for KAEFER’s 14/15 KAEFER Group at SMM Exhibition 2000 Quality Management 15 Yachts ORGANIZATION INDUSTRY 4 Insultec, Thailand 18 Participation in ACHEMA 2000 4 KAEFER-RACO Engineering GmbH 18 Schwedt’s 10th Anniversary 4 Corporate Supply Management 18 Nordhausen’s 10th Anniversary Lounge on “Olympic Voyager“ 5 KAEFER practises Knowledge 19 “Rosenthal 2000” Project Management 19 Insulation for World’s First 6 New Department: SATCON Plant Corporate Market Intelligence 19 Tablet Producing Factory AstraZeneca 6 SAP R/3 off and going INDUSTRY EXPORT 16 Cultivating Bed of 20 Production of Flexible Insulation Product Innovations Mattresses for Gas Turbines 21 Online Exchange for BUILDING Subcontractors WORKS COUNCIL 6 Dry Construction Work is 8 Vision 2000 no longer Registered Trade 8 Training 2000plus 11 Elbe Tunnel / Weser Tunnel EMPLOYEES PRODUCTS / SYSTEMS 8 Employee-financed Retirement 16 bemofensterbau Plan 17 Lolamat Distribution in Germany 9 Corporate Personnel Development 17 Microsorber House magazine 2000 9 Training at KAEFER Published by: ABROAD KAEFER Isoliertechnik GmbH & Co KG, Bürgermeister-Smidt-Straße 70, D-28195 Bremen, 21 International Management Meeting Phone (0421) 30 55-0, Fax (0421) 1 82 51 24 KAEFER in Portugal E-Mail: [email protected] Internet: www.kaefer.com 28/29 Anniversaries 24 Guest at France’s Responsible for this Publication: 28 Retirements Stephan K. Radermacher, Volker Pannemann, Dagmar Mangels, Largest Shipyard 31 The Suggestion Program for Manuscript: 25 MS Explorer of the Seas PresseContor, Dr. Christine Backhaus Annette-Kolb-Str. 10, D-28215 Bremen Employees Phone: (0421) 3 79 85 84, Fax: (0421) 3 79 85 85 25 Order for DaimlerChrysler in Nina Svensson, KAEFER Isoliertechnik 31 Pensioners’ Get-together Layout and Typography: SANDFORT Werbeagentur South Africa Bismarckstraße 81, D-28203 Bremen, 31 Deaths Phone (0421) 7 91 67-0, Fax (0421) 7 91 67-19 26 Offshore Platform Åsgard B Foto sources: Blohm+Voss, Hamburg MISCELLANEOUS Chantiers de I’Atlantique, Saint-Nazaire 26 Dry Construction in Austria Geyer, Fürth KAEFER-Archives 7 Sail 2000 König, Lobenstein Müllerklein, Hamburg 27 “Dobry” Czechia Posch, Bremen Volkswerft Stralsund 30 KAEFER’s Volleyball Team 22/23 PROJECTS Lithography: ATL-Refolith, Bremen TECHNOLOGY / DEVELOPMENTS Moved Up Print: tvdruck, Bielefeld 10 Disposal of PCB Contaminated Floors 30 Benefit Soccer Tournament 10 Interior Insulation for Gas Turbines 30 Company Bowling Club 13 Acoustic Measurements on Olympic 30 Munich on Rafting Tour Voyager 31 KAEFER Motorcycle Tour 2 Dear colleagues, dear friends of KAEFER, Stephan K. Radermacher, Peter Hoedemaker, Norbert Schmelzle This is the eighteenth issue of “k-wert”, one of the most efficient suppliers of power As regards direct efforts to satisfy our many which, as we feel, once again gives you an plant systems for modern gas turbine and employees, it was also possible to take idea of the KAEFER Group’s fortified vitality combined power plants in the world. important steps this year. Through the and developmental potential. A new kind of establishment of a Personnel Development public relations management is to find Once again, we have come a considerable Department we have succeeded better at expression in this issue, it being, for one, bit closer to our aim to generate at least analyzing and promoting our resource a milestone on KAEFER’s path towards 50% of our turnovers in foreign countries potential; this constitutes, like the training developing a new identity. As you will see over the medium term. A further avenue by of apprentices in its new form, an important on the following pages, this year has been which to gain access to the Asian market contribution to the optimization of the characterized by an extraordinary dynamism was opened up by our acquisition of the performance capacity of our most valuable which constitutes a substantial investment in majority of the shares in Insultec Thailand, form of capital as well as the basis for need- the further stabilization of KAEFER’s future. a step which has already made a positive oriented personnel planning for the future. contribution to the results in foreign This, in addition to the introduction of a Our three major operative goals for this countries, this year. Our numerous subsidia- company retirement plan, has made it year have already been reached: first of all, ries and partnerships in foreign countries possible for us to open up new perspectives our Shipbuilding Division succeeded in give us a stable foothold on four continents. for our employees. establishing itself as a manager of large- scale projects; as a general contractor, we We are very satisfied with the development Last but not least, we close, also on behalf had the opportunity this summer to carry of our knowledge management system and of our shareholders and our advisory board, out the entire interior finishing for the first the establishment of a corporate market as we have in the past, with heartfelt thanks of two twin luxury liners. Investing in such intelligence department. With state-of-the- to our motivated and hard-working employ- general contractor activities in the shipbuild- art information technology, we give our ees in central and decentralized functions, in ing branch, including the acquirement of the employees a considerable advantage over offices and “on the front”, in Germany and in know-how necessary to do the job, will the competition as regards the utilizability foreign countries. We also thank the many contribute quite substantially to the future of company knowledge and make it friends of our company for their contribution stability of this important division. It was possible for them to take external market to our development, and in particular our also possible to put our product “Lolamat” information into account in their medium customers and suppliers for the cooperative to use in this large project, a lightweight and long-term business plans. In addition, it and constructive relations they maintain with panel system manufactured by us which was possible to set up a Corporate Supply us. We wish all of these “stakeholders” in offers as yet unparalleled safety features Management this year, which not only KAEFER’s success and their families a and advantages due to its lightness in optimizes the operative, decentralized peaceful and restful Christmas season as well weight; it was used with great success in the purchasing functions through central as happiness, health and success in the interior design of the cabins. Secondly, we coordination, but is also the spearhead for coming year. carried through on the restructuring and the Internet know-how necessary today. consolidation of the Building Division. In Sincerely yours, doing so, we secured our ability to perform in this difficult branch with an equally difficult market as well. And thirdly, a long- term solution for our Industrial Noise Division was also found. In collaboration with Austria’s RHI Group, it was possible to join forces with the RACO Company in Germany and Bachmann Industries in the USA. Thus, the new conglomerate is now 3 Moving up into the big league KAEFER separates the Industrial Noise Division and establishes a new enterprise: KAEFER Engineering, which is merged with the RHI enterprise RACO. The new company outfit strengthens foothold on the gas turbine sector. Say good-bye to the Industrial Noise Division? No, say hello to Engineering! “The competition respects us and now we have a completely different standing with the large power plant operators in this world,” says Dr. Henning Marwege. And more: the trained engineer senses an enormous enthusiasm for Some staff members of Insultec Inc. (f.l.t.r.): Ms. Lek Warawut, Mr. B.R. Kim, Ms. Sookporn Jitjamnong, Mr. Raj taking on new challenges among his em- Khosla (Managing Director), Ms. Kunte, Mr. Subodh Kunte, Ms. Yawwares Santornsin, Mr. Sajid Bhombal ployees in the Bremen branch. “We have taken a gigantic leap forward, for now, as a supplier of components for gas turbine KAEFER acquires majority stake in Thai subsidiary of power plants, we offer the whole range of services – from the air intake systems to US insulation company Insultec Inc. turbine enclosures and exhaust gas systems to high-tech diverter dampers.” What catapulted KAEFER into the world league is the new compound, KAEFER-RACO Engineering, the business management of which is under the direction of Dr. Marwege After entering into a partnership with the and Wilfried Starke. leading Australian insulation company Bains Harding Ltd., KAEFER has taken an At the beginning the focus was on strategic additional step in the direction of global- considerations as to how the Industrial ization. Having become majority owner of Noise Division could set itself off from the the Thai Insultec subsidiary, the company masses of competitors in this extremely has strengthened its high international competitive market. It was too small to be standing in the area of industrial insulation able to hold its own long-term on the gas and the execution of large projects in the turbine power plant market which is Southeast Asian region. The goal of the currently booming in the U.S.A., but which acquisition was primarily to become a goes in cycles. Extending the range of more visible force on the rapidly expanding services – to include diverter dampers, for Southeast Asian market and to extend example – and establishing a foothold on activities in the direction of China. the US-market in collaboration with a Strategy is Trump: partner showed to be promising steps, The taking over of Insultec Thailand as however.

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