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Every company and each employee are unique and have a distinct history. The following texts offer an impression of the motivation, perspective and convictions of the people behind the stories.

ATEK Drive Solutions

‘You rarely get the chance to do everything from scratch.’

Sebastian Sturm, Managing Director of ATEK Drive Solutions GmbH, on both the merger of Deutsche van Rietschoten & Houwens GmbH and ATEK Antriebstechnik Willi Glapiak GmbH and how to grow as a new system provider for drive solutions.

BID Group

The talent factory

The shortage of skilled workers hits the companies beyond the pull of the large urban centres especially hard. The BID Group in the Upper Franconian town of Coburg is also confronted with this challenge. Here, we simply develop the urgently needed specialist expertise in-house instead of investing huge amounts of time and effort searching for it.

ROPEX Industrie-Elektronik GmbH

Too small to grow?

International markets are a major challenge for small and medium-sized enterprises: on the one hand, they can often only increase their growth significantly through exports, but at the same time seldom have the necessary resources to compete in all markets. ROPEX has been asserting itself in this field of tension for many years.