Bürkle inaugurates its Innovation Center

Thermoform presses, digital printing machines and a pilot line for the photovoltaic industry – more than 130 guests gazed at the Bürkle technology in the new innovation center and could see how moulded wooden fronts, imprinted parquet floorboards and precisely structured solar modules are manufactured.
2,5 million Euros were invested at the headquarters in Freudenstadt by the specialists for presses and lamination for erecting a hall of 1000 m². There customers from the USA, Asia and the rest of the world should carry out tests for the manufacture of modern wood-based panels and solar modules. The company manager Hans-Joachim Bender emphasised during the inauguration ceremony that they have invested at the right location and in due course. ’The building symbolises our wish to think forward and to maintain ourselves on the world market” underlines the managing director.
The new innovation center in which Bürkle combines research and development is directly located next to the office wing that was erected on the factory premises in Stuttgarter Straße in 2007. The wide glass pane front of the new building intentionally removes the distance between blue collars and white collars – between technicians and developers. ’Research in the photovoltaic industry has cost us several million Euros in the meantime in order to remain the world market leader in this sector” says Bender. The company head is sure that this notion is communicated by the company and the managing partners through the innovation center.
Besides the investment in buildings and machines, Bürkle especially patronizes young talents: The training ratio of the machine constructor is currently with 13 per cent and exceeds the average of the metal and electronic industry (which was with 5,2 per cent in 2007) a lot.
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