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Premium Stephan
invests €10m in
Hameln
Hamelin. Now that's some good news from the
Hamelin Economy: The gear manufacturer
Premium Stephan has spent three million Euros in
the development and production of a new
precision gear - and will invest a further seven
million Euro to develop the site.
The Indian parent company Premium Transmission
Ltd. wants to sell via Hamelin a year 40,000 quantity
of the new gear worldwide in the future. Number of
current employees is 150 - Eckhard Siekmann
on the photo is one of them - will thus tend to
continue to rise. TT
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Back to the Future
Premium Stephan invested three million Euros in Hameln - and announces even more
VON THOMAS THIMM
Hamelin.
With
the
introduction
of
a
new
precision gear the Hamelin
gear manufacturer Premium
Stephan does not want
anything less than the future
to begin. The company itself
even speaks of "a historic
moment". In fact Premium
Stephan today consecrates a
new production hall for mass
production of the "Melior
Motion"
transmission.
Associated with this are
investments of three million
Euros and planned new hires.
Almost exactly a year ago dark
clouds were gathering on
Hamelin daughter of the
Indian Premium Transmission
Ltd. But then the Indian
parent
company,
the
workforce and the unions
formed an alliance: The gear
manufacturer announced an
employment guarantee for
the operation of Hamelin until
March 2017. The company
wanted to invest millions including 1.5 Million Euros, to
which
the
employees previously in salary
payments had waived. There
are high hopes attached to the
development of a new
transmission, being developed
in Hamelin, jointly with the
Fraunhofer Institute tested and which will be presented
today.
Premium Stephan Business
Development
Manager
Matthias Nentwig highlights
the peculiarities of the new
transmission: "It is particularly
precise, durable and energy
efficient." Such precision,
associated to this gearbox,
cannot be found “anywhere
else in the world”. And yet
that
list
of benefits is not even fully
explained: "The precision
remains over the lifetime”.
The "Melior motion” gearbox
is suitable for all industrial
productions, in which robots
produce something. Nentwig:
"Our transmission can be used
by all industries, for example
automobile
manufacturers,
the electronics industry or the
mobile phone producer."
Proud of the
new gearbox,
with which Premium Stephan
wants to design
its future (from L-R):
Matthias Nentwig with the
engineers
Peter Hartung
and Frank
Klünder. Dana
Nobody doubts that a new era
at Premium Stephan has
begun. Also the Marketing
Manager David Kopka: "We
passed all tests at leading
robot
manufacturers
immediately”.
The
transmission was designed by
three designers, who have
been working with the
company for a longer time.
Nentwig: "Their know-how
made
this
development
possible.
We
are proud that we have such a
great staff."
And so everyone at Premium
Stephan is sure that the new
product strikes a success with
customers in the industry,
which is also needed, if
Premium Stephan wants to
achieve not only the technical,
but
also
the
economic turnaround. In the
last fiscal year 2013/14 (March
31st) there was a turnover of
22.6 million Euros, Below the
line not more outcome than a
‘black zero'. In previous
years Premium Stephan was in
deficit.
According to Nentwig there
will be realistically a turnover
of 24 million Euro for the
ongoing
financial
year
2014/15.
The
new
transmission is supposed
make a change for the better.
Nentwig: "We want to double
the annual quantity up to
40,000 transmissions within
the next five years - and thus
also in sales."
The same five-year plan also
contains additional capital
expenditure
of seven million Euros in
machinery and equipment, in
order to fulfil the planned
capacity expansion. Since the
production of this gear is to be
done in Hamelin, hence "we
will need new employees",
announces Nentwig. And
pushes afterwards: "We want
to position us again as an
attractive
employer."
80
persons of the currently 150
employees are employed in
production. They will soon
supply the new transmission
all over the world. Since
Premium Stephan has an
export share of 80 percent.
Asia and especially China are
the major markets of the
Hamelin
transmission
specialist.
INFO
From Stephan-Works to Premium Stephan
- 1908: Alfred Stephan founded the StephanWorks in Thurm at Zwickau as a company for
drive technology.
- 1947: Under the threat of expropriation,
Stephan draws of Saxony via Helmstedt to
Hamelin.
- 1951: The Stephan-Works are inaugurated
at today’s Stephansplatz.
- 1953: The Stephan-Works form a subsidiary:
Stephan Machinery GmbH, building machines
for the food industry and is nowadays an
independent company.
- 1955: The one millionth Stephan motor
running off the production line in Hamelin.
- 1993: Stephan-Works are sold to the British
Brook-Hansen Group.
- 2000: As a result of merger Stephan lands at
the US industrial group Rexnord seven years
later.
- 2002: Rexnord together with Stephan will be
passed on to the Carlyle-Group in Washington,
D. C. - one of the largest private equity firms in
the world.
- 2011: The Indian transmission specialist
PremiumTransmission Ltd. acquires the
Stephan-Works in Hamelin, operates under
the name Premium Stephan - and tries to start.
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