Kurtz Ersa Magazine | Edition 38 | June 2014 1 Kurtz Ersa Magazine For Customers and Business Partners of Kurtz Ersa Corporation 38June 2014 - Kurtz Ersa Corporation Jubilee: 235 years of living technology ......... 4 Electronics Production Equipment Ersa Reflow System wins NPI Award .......... 15 Moulding Machines Lightweight construction: Think bigger, faster, global – and act local! ....18 Metal Components New iron foundry: Ideally equipped for the future .............. 22 2 Kurtz Ersa Magazine | Edition 38 | June 2014 Kurtz Ersa Magazine | Edition 38 | June 2014 3 Vision, Mission, Leadership Excellence In the medium-term, the Kurtz Ersa Leadership Guidelines of the Senior management as a role model Editorial Group is aiming for a turnover volume of Kurtz Ersa Corporation The Kurtz Ersa senior management members over € 250 million. With the investments define tasks clearly – even at the interface already made, and our ongoing Social Behaviour to other areas – and employ professional investment, we have created a solid • I actively live our values and management techniques. Similarly they basis. And our markets offer sufficient ensure that they are applied. appreciate staff acting on their own Kurtz Ersa Corporation potential. But we can only achieve this • I am humane, fair and loyal. responsibility. They know that the Kurtz Ersa 235 years of living technology growth by providing our customer with • I am open and honest. Values are best imparted by living them. With optimum service – which is why we have • I create a positive climate and clear organisational procedures and a realigned our vision, mission and promote cohesion. cooperative style of management, they For Kurtz Ersa, the outstanding feature of 2014 is the 235-year jubilee. leadership guidelines. • I respect my staff and business continue to permanently promote the Our company was established in Hasloch am Main in 1779 with the partners without distinguishing development of the group. And very im- construction of the hammer mill. The vision now simply states: between persons. portant: We celebrate successes together! Our competitive lead in technology opti- • I am sympathetic, ready to help We want to retain this industrial monument and, by adding a museum mizes our customers’ production process. and open to criticism. and a conference centre, expand our history centre. We thoroughly The central focus: the benefit to the customer. • I seek personal contact to my staff. enjoyed relocating our company archive to new premises and Our aim is to offer our industrial customers reappraising the history of the company with the chronicle entitled the best possible preconditions for realising Leadership Qualities “From the Iron Hammer Works in Hasloch to Kurtz Ersa”. We are very their business objectives with innovative and • I am reliable and consistent. grateful to the author Dr. Robert Meier for his extensive research. The technologically leading products. • I communicate openly, fact that the chronicle also deals with such delicate topics as forced professionally and promptly. labour and the Nazi period reflects our open approach to failings. The new Kurtz Ersa Mission • I set clear, prioritized goals and Mistakes were made in the past and will also be made in the future. • We produce components, systems and monitor their consistent But, by confronting our past, we learn to minimise failings in the future equipment for the optimization compliance. and ensure that under no circumstances can they recur. of manufacturing processes. • I immediately initiate corrective • We want to understand the processes measures if deviation from a set Rainer Kurtz, Chief Executive Officer of Ersa GmbH and the Kurtz But never fear! The Kurtz Ersa Team is by no means focussed solely used by our customers. goal becomes apparent. Ersa Corporation (right), Thomas Mühleck, CFO (left), and on the past. This edition of the Kurtz Ersa Magazine shows that we • We are a strongly diversified global player. • I make timely decisions, Uwe Rothaug, CTO of the Kurtz Ersa Corporation (in the middle). also take up the challenges of the present and relish the prospects • We aim for the top position in all communicate these clearly and of the future. We continue to consistently develop new products, markets we participate in. unambiguously and implement adjust our corporate culture, streamline our processes and improve • We are a family based enterprise with them targeted towards the goal. our internal communication and training system. tradition and values. • I actively involve my staff and • We include our employees in the decision those departments affected in This Kurtz Ersa Magazine also contains further contributions on making processes. the decision making process. interesting customer projects. We very much appreciate the work of • We strive for a reasonable return on and • I motivate my staff to ambitious the companies who have become involved. Thanks to the industrial increase of the equity capital. performances and support their diversity of our product portfolio, the Kurtz Ersa Magazine can offer professional and personal lots of ideas for new projects for our readers. In addition to the technological focus of the advancement. group, the new mission also contains a value- • I acknowledge the performances Our jubilee year 2014 has got off to a very good start and it looks as oriented policy guideline. In order to allow of my staff through praise and if we are set to grow significantly this year too. We would like to these values to be lived out in daily business, recognition. express our thanks to our customers, our suppliers and of course also we orient ourselves towards the management to our staff. guidelines. Happy reading – Good luck! Rainer Kurtz 4 Kurtz Ersa Magazine | Edition 38 | June 2014 Kurtz Ersa Magazine | Edition 38 | June 2014 5 Rainer Kurtz, Chief Executive Officer of the Kurtz Ersa Corporation, in an interview for the IHK-TV, the business television of TV touring. Kurtz Ersa Corporation Kurtz Ersa Corporation In front of the manor house (from left to right): Prof. Dr. Ralf Jahn, CEO IHK Würzburg-Schwein- furt, Rainer Kurtz, Dr. Robert Meier, Dr. Andrea H. Schneider, Walter Kurtz and Bernhard Kurtz. Looking back to the future – Kurtz Ersa Vom Haslocher Eisenhammer zu Kurtz Ersa From the Iron Hammer Works in Hasloch to Kurtz Ersa Vom Haslocher Eisenhammer zu Kurtz Ersa Kurtz Ersa Company Chronicle From the Iron Hammer Works in Hasloch to Kurtz Ersa celebrates 235 years of the Eisenhammer forge Robert Meier Robert Meier On the occasion of its 235-year jubilee, Kurtz Ersa presented a comprehensive company chronicle Seit 235 Jahren wird mit dem Eisenhammer bei Hasloch im Spessart glühendes Metall in Form gebracht. with the title “From the Iron Hammer Works in Hasloch to Kurtz Ersa – A Glowing Business Aus einer Schmiede, die die Wasserkraft des Haselbachs nutzte, entwickelte sich ein weltweit tätiger Konzern. Die Familienunternehmer Kurtz führen diesen Konzern seit sechs Generationen. Während viele vergleichbare Eisenhämmer in der Region keinen Weg in das 21. Jahrhundert fanden, gelang Back then, hardly anyone would have as a corporatedem cultural Familienunternehmen durchproject: mutiges unternehmerisches “Together Handeln und Innovationen with stetig mit neuen Pro- History from the Spessart region”. With numerous interesting and informative articles, the dukten, in neue Geschäftsfelder und neue Märkte zu wachsen. Das Buch zeigt die Besonderheiten des Fami- lienunternehmens und der Unternehmerfamilie und stellt die Betriebsfamilie vor. Der Kurtz Ersa-Konzern wird dreamt it – what began as a simple forge our museum, inthe diesem Buch forge als ein für den global is agierenden now deutschen a Mittelstandcomponent typischer Hidden Champion sichtbar. chronicle spans the company’s history, in words and pictures, from the first steps to today. The Der Autor Robert Meier ist Historiker, Archivar und Dozent an der Universität Würzburg und publizierte bereits mehrfach zur Geschichte der Region. on 24 March, 1779 has developed over part of the KurtzThe iron hammer Ersa nearby Hasloch historic in the Spessart region iscenter’, forming glowing metal forwith 235 years now. From a 264-page work was compiled by the historian Dr. Robert Meier; editorial responsibility was born former smithy that had used the water-power of the Haselbach stream a globally acting company has evolved. Vom Haslocher Eisenhammer zu Kurtz Ersa Kurtz zu Eisenhammer Haslocher Vom The Kurtz family is managing the business in the sixth generation. Whereas a number of similar ironworks of the region did not make their way into the 21st century, the family- the course of 235 years to a highly- the manor houseowned enterprise as was the successfully central growing into new business element, areas and markets, with thein help of brave by Dr. Andrea H. Schneider, Managing Director of the business history institute, Gesellschaft entrepreneurial action, innovation and new products. This study shows the distinctive features of a family business and a business family at the same time and it also presents the company family. In this book, Kurtz Ersa Kurtz to Hasloch in Works Hammer Iron the From Ersa Corporation is becoming a visible hidden champion that is typical for the German Mittelstand acting specialised global player. Owner- which meetingson the andglobal market. cultural events will take für Unternehmensgeschichte. “The iron hammer works in Hasloch is unique in its own way, just The author, Robert Meier, is a historian