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REPORTS ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, MANUFACTURING, MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRACTICAL APPLICA-
TIONS OF ENGINEERING SPRINGS AND ON THE SYSTEMS, MACHINERY AND TOOLING DIVISIONS OF THE SCHERDELGROUP

Innovative ideas

'Challenge 2020', the meeting point for
Dear Reader,
New products and manufacturing SCHERDEL employees from 22 countries

processes continue to develop
around the world at varying
speeds: While roughly 250,000
fully electric cars were sold in ew market developments and the fully electric vehicles, innovative devel-
China during the first eight months Nchallenges of the future were the opments in other industries, for exam-
of 2016, end consumers in Europe
are more reluctant to be active in main topics of a recent three-day ple medical engineering, were also dis-
this sector. SCHERDEL as a symposium for employees of the cussed. Further discussions looked at
global player intensively monitors SCHERDELGroup from 22 countries. the economic state of markets relevant
activities in specific markets world- The event was held in the Walter Bach to SCHERDEL and the ever changing
wide and through the 'Challenge
2020' event encourages an ex- Research and Development Centre at customer expectations and demands.
change of experiences to prepare
its international sales specialists MECHANICAL ENGINEERING – LOCATIONS – TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT – NEWS AND INFORMATION
for the challenges ahead. The
principal aim of our Group has and
always will be to provide the great-
est benefit to our customers.
Further development of our
'SpringDesigner' software with en-
hanced interface connection is an
excellent example of this. Further-
more, we continue to expand our
product portfolio. New techniques
for manufacturing media conduc-
tive pipes have seen us signifi-
cantly bolster our skills in the area
of tube forming and processing
and created business synergies
for our clients. The same applies
to component flocking to reduce
noise. Progress must bring bene-
fits to people without damaging the
environment. As such, we are
dedicated in our commitment to the company's headquarters in Ger- The participants were given an insight
sustainability and the optimum use
of energy and resources. many and in the guest house of Wald- into production processes during guid-
sassen Abbey. The three-day sympo- ed plant tours in the local area. Both
sium entitled 'Challenge 2020' clearly employees and managers are of the
demonstrated that product innovations strong belief that SCHERDEL will capi-
in increasingly competitive and chang- talise on the opportunities which arise
ing markets will continue to be a signifi- due to changing market conditions,
cant factor in the success of the com- thus generating excellent ideas to drive
Marcus Bach pany. Besides the latest trends in the 'growth through innovation'. (dk)
Executive Shareholder of the automotive sector, such as auto-
SCHERDELGroup
nomous driving, innovations for hybrid
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drives or progress in the introduction of