Editorial Important guest in Bonndorf

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HECTRONIC‘s Company Magazine 3/2010
Editorial
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Important guest in Bonndorf
Governor Mappus shows great interest in HeDu project
Dear Reader
The Automechanika took place in September and is for us the most important
tradeshow for the refuelling/tank gauging
sector. It was once again a great event with
many partners, customers as well as other
sector representatives. If we use the unofficial consumption of Rothaus beer at our
standard as an indicator for the success
of the tradeshow, then we had some very
successful days indeed and are looking
forward to an intensive last quarter 2010
as well as 2011. In addition to business as
usual and the tradeshow, we also really
enjoyed the visit of our Governor Stefan
Mappus to Bonndorf. He honoured the
commitment of HECTRONIC in cooperation with our neighbour „Dunkermotoren“ to
train young people. The „HeDu“ concept lit
up the region and was very well received.
The trainees did a really great job and we
are very proud of them!
I hope you enjoy this newsletter.
Yours Stefan Forster
As part of his 2010 summer tour
through the region, the Governor
Stefan Mappus visited HECTRONIC GmbH and Dunkermotoren
GmbH in Bonndorf on 3rd September 2010. Governor Mappus travelled to Bonndorf in order to get a
personal insight into the exemplary training initiative „HeDu“ which
is organised by both companies.
Hectronic’s Managing Director Stefan Forster welcomed the Governor
of Baden-Wuerttemberg to the business premises of Hectronic GmbH
on a splendidly sunny day. Stefan
Forster was very pleased about the
Governor‘s trip to Bonndorf. Mappus
used the opportunity of the company
tour to talk in-depth to HECTRONIC‘s
Managing Director Stefan Forster and
was very impressed by the innovative
force of the business. Stefan Forster
(Hectronic‘s Managing Director) and
Nikolaus Gräf (Dunkermotoren‘s
Managing Director) presented both
company‘s impressive statistics during subsequent presentations. Both
Managing Directors emphasised the
challenge to find suitable specialist
staff in the rural area and named this
as the reason for the training cooperation of both companies. Governor
Mappus was visibly impressed when
the trainees did a lecture with regards to „HeDu“ training initiative: „My
compliments, those are ideas and
explanations of the highest order.”
Governor Stefan
Mappus (middle) and
Member of BW-parliament Dr. Klaus Schuele
(CDU) were pleased
with the presentation
given by the trainees.
Trade shows
The Black Forest stand - once again a great success
HECTRONIC can look back on a successful Automechanika tradeshow
The HECTRONIC stand was very popular during the exhibition.
The 21st edition of Automechanika, which takes place every other year, opened its doors in Frankfurt on 14th
September 2010. It is the most important leading tradeshow for the refuelling and tank gauging sector. The large
number of international visitors had the opportunity to inform themselves on the latest developments in the refuelling sector.
Visitors at the HECTRONIC stand could not
only get information about the latest products
„A successful Automechanika 2010 - not
for company and public filling stations but
only the quantity but also the quality of
could also test the products for themselves.
conversations were great.
One of the tradeshow highlights was without
a doubt the „HECTRONIC Evening 2010“.
Frank Gampp
BU-Head of Refuelling
Fresh draft beer and delicious snacks were served while the
comedy duo „Mark’n’Simon“ entertained the crowd. Both artists
presented parodies of different pop stars, but the facial expressions of the artists alone filled the room with the laughter of the
stand visitors. Once more HECTRONIC had a very successful
tradeshow. Our days at the Automechanika resulted in a wide
number of interesting contacts and conversations.
Four content subsidiary managers during
the HECTRONIC evening.
Refuelling
Safe use of TA2331 in mining areas
HECTRONIC autofuel terminals now also in Colombia
Colombia is situated in the north of South
America and is, at 1.14 millions sqm, four
times the size of Germany. About 80% of the
roughly 45 million inhabitants live in the cities,
about 7 million alone live in the capital of Bogota. The agricultural sector is still the main
trade basis from an economic point of view.
Colombia’s main export products are coffee,
flowers, bananas and raw materials. Cerro Matoso is the only nickel mine in Colombia. It is located near Montelibano in the North of Colombia and is owned by the BHP Billiton Inc., an
Australian-British raw materials conglomerate.
BHP Billiton, Vale and Rio Tinto Group are together the 3 largest mining companies in the world.
Cerro Matoso has, in addition to the mines,
also its own smelting works, which treats
and processes the raw materials. After years
of experience in fitting mines in South Africa,
Australia as well as Peru, HECTRONIC now
has made its first step in Colombia. The to handle the refuelling manageinstallation of extensive HECTRONIC au- ment in the best possible way
tofuel system solutions was accompanied throughout the mining area.
by an experienced HECTRONIC support
staff member who supported the installation
team with advice and practical knowledge.
Several filling stations and tank trucks were
fitted with TA2331 in cooperation with the
distribution partner Indutronica. In addition,
the vehicles and pumps were fitted with PetroPoint automatic vehicle recognition which
simplifies the refuelling process drastically. Filling station in the workshop.
The approximately 60 vehicles can now easily get authorised via radio to the autofuel
terminal and start the refuelling process.
The intelligent software solution HecPoll
handles the administration of the refuelling
data. The modern system solution made
by HECTRONIC not only makes the refuelling process much simpler and more
Smelting works Cerro Matoso.
efficient, but also allows the headquarters
Duesseldorf Airport relies on HECTRONIC solution
The International Airport in Duesseldorf opened on 19th April 1927 and
is now the most important international hub of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Duesseldorf Airport was third place
in regards to passenger numbers in
Germany thanks to the connection to
the motorway network, the public local traffic and also with regards to the
broad range of flights to Europe and
long distance destinations. In order to
maintain this position in future, it was
about time to modernise the outdated
and unclear refuelling books to stateof-the-art technology. In 2008, Duesseldorf Airport Ground Handling decided to choose a total package made
by HECTRONIC and fitted their tank
trucks with the TA2331 Mobile, PetroPoint Retail and Software FuelData.
The advantages of this system are,
amongst others, the complete docu-
mentation of vehicle refuelling, the
analysis options about the consumption of the individual vehicles but also
the alignment about the bought and
refuelled petrol. It can also be used
to prepare cost accounting reports
about refuelling for analysis purposes.
In order to use this system, it is only
necessary to install the mobile autofuel system to the tank trucks and fit
vehicle tags. The passive vehicle tags
enable automatic identification during
the refuelling process of the vehicle.
The entire autofuel data such as fuel
type, quantity and vehicle type are
directly transferred to the headquarters by the TA2331 via GSM. The
HECTRONIC autofuel system software allows analysis of the resulting
refuelling data easily and quickly. The
project resume has been evaluated
very positively for which we have to
be thankful for to our distribution partner Kienzle Systems who carried out
the entire transaction. Duesseldorf
Airport now has an intelligent refuelling system solution thanks to the
HECTRONIC installation, which not
only simplifies the refuelling process
but also enables uncomplicated analysis of the refuelling transactions.
Installation of the mobile TA2331.
Company
The following members of staff are leaving us ...
Head of Sales Refuelling,
Oliver Huber
Joint-Managing Director
Hectronic Austria,
Christian Guttmann
HECTRONIC welcomes new
trainees
On the 1st of September 2010 it was that
time again: Four new young people started a new stage in their life with Hectronic.
This year once more there was a getting
to know each other event over three days
in order to integrate the future Device and
System Electricians as well as the future
Industrial Clerk into the group. The spe-
Head of Marketing,
Stefan Kech
We welcome the following members of staff ...
Trainees during gold washing.
cial feature of this year’s trip was that the
trainees were allowed to plan and organise
almost everything by themselves. This was
also a very successful project and the trainees had lots of fun. They could introduce
their own ideas and visions for this purpose.
During various games and activities such
Christof Folkerts
as Head of Marketing
Ralf Walter Bamert
as Head of IT
Robert Mazuga
as Head of Sales
We wish the following trainees a good start
Teamwork is needed.
as gold washing and geo-coaching they
were given the opportunity to get to know
each other as well as strengthening the
togetherness. Now there is nothing in the
way for a good start into the apprenticeship.
Rebecca Schuele (training to
become an industrial clerk),
Dominik Burger, Clemens
Schwarz and Johannes
Schirmer (training to become
Device and System Electricians) left to right.
Lukas Joos and Robin
Gina Sibold will do her sales
Probst (from left) also start apprenticeship at Hectronic
their apprenticeships to
AG in Brugg.
become Device and System Electricians as part of
the HeDu project.
Contact
Hectronic GmbH
Allmendstraße 15; 79848 Bonndorf
Phone: +49 (0) 77 03 / 93 88 0
Fax: +49 (0) 77 03 / 93 88 60
Email: [email protected]
www.hectronic.com
Redakteur: Christof Folkerts;
Head of Marketing