As of September this year, SCHADE Lagertechnik GmbH has been part of the AUMUND Group for ten years. The high expectations which both sides set at the time for this partnership have been entirely fulfilled. Franz-Walter Aumund, head of the AUMUND Group headquartered in Rheinberg and Jo¨rg Hoffmann, who was until September managing director at SCHADE in Herne, completely agree on this point. “Without the global network and the economic potential of the group we would not have been able to grow so strongly over the past years,” Hoffmann looks back positively. Above all, good contacts in the cement industry had been an engine for growth. Franz-Walter Aumund sees it in the same light. “A good partnership is always a give and take. We smoothed the way here and there, but on the other hand we were able to offer products which our range had previously lacked. Thus this evolution also benefited AUMUND Fo¨rdertechnik.”
Important business segments which have been focused on over the last ten years, apart from the cement industry, were the core business in the power station sector as well as the — in part — rapidly growing fertilizer industry. “The last decade has been moulded not least by the continuous technological development in environmentally friendly circular storage as well as by the particularly high-performance stockyard and blending bed systems,” confirmed the technical managing director of SCHADE Lagertechnik, Dr.Wolfram Grafe. He is part of the new management team in Herne with Karl-Heinz Fiegenbaum who joined in July when Jo¨rg Hoffmann took over a new management role within the group. Grafe and Fiegenbaum are sure that the coming years will also be strongly defined by further company growth. Many areas in bulk handling are moving fast. In the future SCHADE wishes to meet this dynamism with both economically and ecologically optimum solutions and maximize opportunities to also gain a foothold in new industrial
sectors for the recognized, reliable products from Herne.This development is also viewed in a very positive light by the Group. According to Franz-Walter Aumund, “If SCHADE continues developing as has been the case over the last ten years, we can look forward to a good future. I am sure we have the right people in the right position to be able to continue growth dynamically.”
ABOUT SCHADE LAGERTECHNIKSCHADE Lagertechnik GmbH is among the foremost manufacturers worldwide of equipment for bulk material stockyards and blending beds for all major sectors. The company was founded in 1879 and is today headquartered in Herne. It has gained an outstanding reputation worldwide for its modern stockyard and homogenizing concepts. It has belonged to the AUMUND Group since 2001.
ABOUT THE AUMUND GROUPThe AUMUND Group is active worldwide.The conveying and storage specialist has special expertise at its disposal when dealing with bulk materials. With its high degree of individuality, both its technically sophisticated as well as innovative products have contributed to the AUMUND Group’s today being a major presence in many areas of conveying and storage technology. The manufacturing companies AUMUND Fo¨rdertechnik GmbH (Rheinberg, Germany), SCHADE Lagertechnik GmbH (Herne, Germany), B&W Mechanical Handling Ltd. (Ely, Great Britain) as well as AUMUND Logistik GmbH (Rheinberg, Germany) are consolidated under the umbrella of the AUMUND Group. In conjunction with the headquarters of the manufacturing companies, the global conveying and storage technology business is spearheaded by a total of eight locations in Asia, Europe, North and South America.