www.gawgroup.com NEWS FROM THE GROUP The new GAW Technical Centre Issue 2 | 2011 limited edition Shortcuts Editorial Company report Competences Projects Focus on People Shortcuts Plastic link conveyor for VWN Hanover steel containers and aggregates to top-qual- We do know, however, that we in the GAW ity, high-performance technology supplier. Group have a sustainable product portfolio, The GAW automotive team has been entrusted Editorial In autumn, KRESTA celebrated its 25th year sufficient liquidity and an efficient organisa- with a pilot project for Volkswagen commercial and is today a very valuable member of our tion with highly qualified employees. We are vehicles in Hanover since the beginning of Octo- corporate group that knows how to make the therefore perfectly prepared for upcoming ber. A new central finishing area is to be made for 216,000,000,000: in words, two hundred and most of its opportunities and still has a very challenges and may indeed view the coming the two vehicle types Amarok und T5. GAW will sixteen billion euros — this is the total amount promising future ahead. GAW involvement in years vigilantly but also, by way of contrast, supply and commission materials handling tech- of debt as its stands in the Republic of Austria, India is showing equally positive development very confidently at the same time. nology consisting of a plastic, double-spur apron and it is continuously rising. — 1.2 billion people live in the country and With this in mind, it just remains for me to wish conveyor at 4 m wide with a loading and unloading around 20 million more are added to this fig- The interest payments alone make up almost you lovely readers a very merry Christmas and ramp for the inspection of painted vehicles. The ure every year. And where people are, paper EUR 7.8 billion — but is it really that bad? Af- all the best for 2012! total periphery and a light tunnel built over the is needed. The paper industry is showing no- ter all, Austria has the lowest rate of unem- entire area — including steel construction, elec- ticeable development and local experts antic- ployment in the EU, boasts an AAA rating in trics and visualisation — are also to be supplied ipate growth rates on a scale of 25% for some the government bond market and is actually and assembled by GAW as the general contractor. varieties. However, we must not lose sight of one of the richest countries in the world. An Assembly will begin at the end of February 2012 the fact that the basic economic conditions ideal world! The fact, however, that the low and start of production is expected to take place have been obscured across the world again unemployment rate is dearly bought by one at the end of March. VWN is also subsequently since the third quarter and forecasts concern- of the highest early retirement rates, that planning more installations of this nature. ing the future business development of our the AAA only exists on paper (admittedly, the company are fraught with great uncertainty. Mag. Jochen Pildner-Steinburg GAW as specialist for forgery- major agencies have issued Austria with a top proof banknote paper credit rating, but on the markets, the coun- try is no more than a second class borrower, GAW technology has been requested many times as one can tell from the rapidly increasing in the past for banknote paper manufacturing. Editorialteam: premiums that Austria has to pay in order to f.l.t.r. standing Josef Mohl/GAW E-Abteilung, Nikolaus Brücke/GAW, Christian Steiner/GAW & OSMO, Wolfgang Senner/GAW, Thus, in addition to the coating colour process- find buyers for government bonds) and that Andreas Mühle/GAW, Marc Pildner-Steinburg/GAW ing systems already in use around the world its current wealth is based on a business at f.l.t.r. sitting Alexandra Pichler-Jessenko/PJ, Nina Pildner-Steinburg/GAW, Sigrid Tertinegg/GAW for special kinds of security paper, a few new the expense of third parties — namely future In assistance by: Robert Spiegel, Christian Monschein, Klaus Stuffer, Günter Maresch, Oliver Koroschetz (alle GAW), Jürgen Müller systems are also in the making. Alongside ‘bulk generations — is blocked out. We can only (OSMO), Silke Thamerl (KRESTA), Günther Neuwirt (ARTEC) paper’ manufacturing, coating colour processing hope that the government is serious about the systems are also used for special kinds of paper debt brake and that this wasn‘t just a hasty Editorialteam Issue 2 | 2011 such as banknotes, which have to fulfil special reaction to reassure Moody‘s and Standard & requirements such as protection against forgery Poor‘s. On the other hand, we can also only as well as extreme wear and tear. Banknote pa- hope that the generous patience with which per is generally manufactured using continuous the Austrians accept that the budget deficit current cylindrical sieve machines. One impor- has defied every boom for 40 years and the tant component of the cylindrical sieve is the constantly rising mountain of debt, which expansion cylinder, on which several sieves are politicians justify as a contribution to future fitted and clamped. Banknote paper machines security, will soon come to an end. Apparently usually have a maximum working width of 2,800 things are still going too well for us, while mm and a speed of 20 - 90 m/min. virtually the whole of Europe is being shaken by riots caused by bare knuckle saving initia- Uruguay – successful base for KRESTA tives, people in lucky Austria can apparently still afford to strike for 5.5 percent higher As a follow-up order to the large Botnia project wages — Oh, lucky Austria. Hopefully it isn‘t a in Uruguay, KRESTA was again able to book in a mortgage on the future of our youth. project in the paper and pulp area. At present, KRESTA produces containers measuring up to 8.5 But now to the GAW Group: following GAW‘s m in diameter and 62 m in length. Due to the 60th anniversary in June, we can look back magnitude and scope of delivery, the equipment with pride at a company that, after years of is being delivered to Uruguay by ship in three hard work, has successfully forged the path different batches. from simple manufacturing shop for stainless 2 COMPANY The acquisition of the Swiss company has enabled KRESTA to REPORT KRESTA acquires shares extend its strong position in the chemical industry. in Swiss company 1 The International Institute for Management Development (IMD) is a private business Buss ChemTech AG school in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is one of three business schools in Switzerland certified by EQUIS (European s well as focussing on device, container and The majority shareholding in Buss ChemTech Quality Improvement Systems). Apipeline construction for both the paper AG, a global technology provider with around Switzerland: pacesetter and hub for all and pulp industry and the renewable energies 60 employees working in the areas of reaction things innovation area, KRESTA has also successfully managed to technology, fluorine chemistry and the mass In the eyes of the European Commission, expand its expertise in the strategically impor- production of anodes, has enabled KRESTA to no other European country measures up to tant business segment of the chemical industry expand its technology portfolio again, and has Switzerland when it comes to innovative over recent years. For instance, KRESTA sub- set the objective of developing the new site 1 modular loop reactor performance. The European Innovation sidiary KRESTA Technology AG based in Zug, for the technology centre of the KRESTA Group. Scoreboard commissioned by this com- Switzerland, acquired 56 percent of shares in 2 BCT paste kneader mittee measures the population’s level of Buss ChemTech AG in Pratteln in the canton of In the new configuration, KRESTA now has even education, financial opportunities, patent Basel Country. The other 44 percent remains in more capacity and clout when it comes to inter- applications, investments and the econom- Swiss hands. national competition. Combined with the other ic effects of innovations, and even ranks KRESTA Group sites in St. Andrä, Freiberg, Müh- Switzerland above the Scandinavian coun- 1 lheim, Cologne and Ludwigshafen, the techno- tries. The highly-regarded ranking of the logical developments are being implemented IMD1, which measures the competitiveness into real projects and systems. One of the first of individual countries, also comes to the systems for a Chinese customer is already un- same conclusion, scoring Switzerland as der construction and is expected to be shipped the best European country. by the end of the year. In addition to the generally good basic eco- nomic conditions, the effective education and science system and the research and development achievements of companies are also primarily responsible for these top positions. 2 COMPETENCES As well as a lab area, the centre also has an extended test room The new GAW where customer applications can be individually examined. 3 experimental setups Technical Centre 4 laboratory test Patent issue for GAW dispersing system Contributing towards the value enhance- ment of customers and helping them be successful in their markets by creating 3 innovations and ensuring ongoing devel- opment has always formed part of GAW’s principles. On 15 September 2011, the Austrian Patent Office issued GAW with patent number 509454 for one of these developments. The object of the patent is the GAW CDS Oliver Koroschetz dispersing system, which is already much reported (see imteam issue 1/2010). The Contact: now patented concept is an enhancement E-Mail: [email protected] of GAW’s approved VST rotor/stator sys- tem (variable shear technology) for the dispersal of pigment slurries and coating colours, whereby it is possible to increase n the course of further development at the dispersal efficiency by dramatically reduc- Graz site and at the same time as the 60th an- I ing energy consumption.