Mercedes in Jawor NEWSLETTER MERCEDES-BENZ MANUFACTURING POLAND | Issue IV | February 2018 News 2 News from Daimler AG 8 Our Interview 3 Mercedes-Benz Factories 10 Construction 4 Did You know… 11 Our Team 5 Mercedes-Benz in Jawor 6 Education 7 2| NEWS MERCEDES-BENZ MANUFACTURING POLAND Dr Andreas Schenkel nominated for the title of Personality of the Year Dr Andreas Schenkel, President of Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Poland, was nominated by Gazeta Wrocławska for the title of “Personality of the Year 2017” in the category of business for the district of Jawor. The jury appreciated him for giving Jawor and the region an influence for development, for building a factory and blending it in with the local community. Andreas Schenkel won the election at county level and qualified for the grand final - the fight for the title of “Personality of the Year 2017 for Lower Silesia”. This nomination is a great honour and a pleasant surprise. Thank you very much for all the votes cast! Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Poland on Facebook Since January of this year the official Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Poland website has been operating on the FB social media platform. The Mercedes-Benz fun page will inform, amongst many other things on the building progress of the Mercedes-Benz engine factory in Jawor and the recruitment process and local initiatives undertaken by MBMPL in the Lower Silesia region. We invite you to follow us! NEWSLETTER | ISSUE 4 | FEBRUARY 2018 OUR INTERVIEW | 3 Interview with Patrick Walz, Senior Project Manager for the planning and production of the project in Jawor on behalf of Daimler AG What are your tasks, as the Senior Project Lead Manager for Mercedes operations in Jawor? Construction of a Mercedes-Benz factory in Jawor - a green field investment - is a very comprehensive project. I am responsible for the entirety of my activities: I stick to my goals, schedule, and all processes. Construction of an object in which such advanced technology is to be found requires excellent knowledge of connections between various investment areas, including production, logistics and IT. All processes must be perfectly planned and run in the What tasks will the project team face in the right order. Simply put, my project team is responsible for preparing mass production of technologically near future? advanced engines, which - going according to plan - will be taken off the production lines already in We have entered the next stage of the project - the 2019. We also have to ensure that the new plant construction of the largest production and assembly meets the high production standards in force in all hall. On February 5, we set the first structural Mercedes-Benz factories around the world. elements. Construction will last until autumn, then we will start to bring machines and production equipment to the building. Our design team, contractors and What is the biggest challenge of „green field subcontractors are working at full speed. There is investments”? no time to relax, because right after that we set up another production hall, which must be ready for In Jawor, we will build everything from scratch, which winter. gives us the opportunity to create an effective, one hundred percent standard-based Daimler How does cooperation with subcontractors concern factory. It’s not just about construction and infrastructure - we’re introducing revolutionary work? How do you assess the companies technological solutions of Industry 4.0 in the new implementing the project? factory. All this requires both a pioneering approach and proper substantive preparation, but also a balance Our Polish contractors meet both the Daimler AG between new and proven solutions. The challenge is to Group standards and all international standards. We start production, gather a competent crew and build get exactly the quality of service we want! the right „team spirit”. I am glad that I am surrounded by an excellent team of specialists. Thank you for the conversation. 4| CONSTRUCTION MERCEDES-BENZ MANUFACTURING POLAND Construction of the Construction in numbers Mercedes-Benz engine 2017 construction work: • Organization of office facilities factory in Jawor „comes • Starting the electrical and water connections • Plant fencing and construction out of the ground”! • External infrastructure of roads, car parks and underground installations • Construction of hall no. 3 foundations On 5 February, the first 650 outriggers were placed in position for the largest production and assembly hall Use of materials: in the construction of the Mercedes-Benz engine plant • Concrete: 80,000 m³ in Jawor. The planned completion time for this turnkey • Asphalt: 22 500 m³ construction is the end of this year. The consortium • Sewage pipes: 32,000 m of STRABAG, TKT Engineering and Elektromontaż- • Reinforcing steel: 5,500 tons Poznań is responsible for the construction work. The • Steel construction: 4 500 t newly-built hall will be fitted with the most modern • Total steel consumption: 9,000 t (consumption machining and assembly lines operating in the AGIPRO comparable to the construction of approx. 1.25 system. There will also be test benches for testing Eiffel towers) hot and cold engines, logistic surfaces for packaging • Length of perimeter fence: 2 750 m baskets with parts and a module for shipping finished products. The building will also include a component List of existing artists: pre-assembly facility. • Drees & Sommer / CMT (project management) • Spec-Bruk (preparation of the construction site and infrastructure works) • Strabag (preliminary work: preparation of water and power lines, construction of access roads and technical infrastructure, road hardening and construction of hall No. 3) • Eiffage (foundations of hall No. 3) NEWSLETTER | ISSUE 4 | FEBRUARY 2018 OUR TEAM | 5 According to the plan, more than 500 new jobs 200 people will be created at the Mercedes-Benz JCB engine factory. Currently, Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing by the end of 2018! Poland employs 56 people, 54% of whom are women. Almost 70 percent employed are from Poland, 30% are designated employees of Daimler AG. The first employees for the production departments will start work in MBMPL this year. Where to find offers: www.mercedes-benz-jawor.com.pl/kariera, 54% www.pracuj.pl, www.invest-park.com.pl, www.lsse.eu, local websites: 56 Jawor Commune, Poviat Jawor, Labor Office Jawor Employment-status-February 2018 70% 30% Daimler AG Management team MBMPL Aleksandra Łukasiak Ewa Korwek Thomas Kaiser Andreas Zawesky CFO HR Director Senior Manager Quality Director assembly/maitnenance dr Andreas Schenkel Frederik Strauss Paul Schwarzmaier dr Ewa Łabno-Falęcka Harry Slobodic CEO Logistics Director Purchaising Manager Head od Communication IT Director &External Affairs 6| MERCEDES-BENZ IN JAWOR MERCEDES-BENZ MANUFACTURING POLAND A multimedia hall in the Regional Museum in Jawor The Regional Museum has a new multimedia room! Renovated and equipped by Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Poland in cooperation with the City of Jawor. The room is 85 m2, is equipped with modern audiovisual equipment, and the space can be easily adapted to various types of event exhibitions, workshops About the Jawor and conferences and the amount of participants. The factory and Industry room was named after Bertha Benz, wife of Carl Benz, the 4.0 with students… world’s first motorist. On January 9 this year at the Faculty of Technology and Life Sciences at the Wrocław Institution of Technology in Legnica, a lecture was held on the subject of the newly built Mercedes-Benz engine plant in Jawor. The company’s crew talked about ultra-modern solutions on which future production processes will be based. The meeting was attended by around 150 students from the fields of mechanical engineering as well as renewable energy engineering and students from the Automotive Technical School in Legnica, for whom the company Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Poland is developing a program of apprenticeships and internships. The January lecture was the beginning of long-term cooperation between Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Poland and the Faculty of Technology and Life Sciences at … and local the Wrocław Institution of Technology in Legnica. entrepreneurs Representatives from MBMPL shared information with local entrepreneurs on the current status and schedule of construction works as well as plans for the production launch. They met on February 2 in the Bertha Benz room at the Regional Museum in Jawor. The hosts were Dr Andreas Schenkel, CEO of MBMPL, and Dorota Szczęśniewska, President of the Employers Committee in the Jawor Region. NEWSLETTER | ISSUE 4 | FEBRUARY 2018 EDUCATION | 7 Awards in the Jawor edition of the “Eko Gwiazda 2017” competition have been distributed! On February 2 this year’s awards were handed out in the “Eko Gwiazda 2017/edition Jawor” competition. The winners of the first Jawor edition of the contest were students from the Technical and General Education School in Legnica - Wiktoria Kulik and Marcin Wojtaś, who, under the care of Mrs Grażyna Maciak, prepared a film entitled “Ecological side of power”. The main prize in the competition was a weekend trip to the Mercedes- Benz Museum in Stuttgart. The other finalists received commemorative diplomas, and all participants were given special containers for collecting used batteries. More A safe way to school information about the competition and finalists: https://ekogwiazda.pl/jawor/ with Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Poland The Jawor Regional Museum regularly hosts workshops on road safety - a joint project with the district Police Headquarters in Jawor and Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Poland. This time, kids from the third grade of Primary School No. 1 in Jawor met with officers Józef Kolanek and Katarzyna Doszczak - Fuławksą. Activities for children included talks on security, animated films “A aafe school in the Schengen area”, interactive games and guessing games as well as presentations of innovative safety systems used in cars. After the workshops, the kids received reflective bands and teaching materials funded by Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Poland.