Globe: Newspaper for Georg Fischer Employees, No. 1, March 2008

Contents:

• Change in top echelon: Yves Serra to take over as new CEO. Pietro Lori to head GF Piping Systems. (p. 1)
• New colleagues in the USA: GF Piping Systems acquires an established fittings specialist in the United States. (p. 1)
• Market strategies: Share hit by uncertainty (p. 1)
• Market strategies: GF best supplier for ZF (p. 1)
• Market strategies: Listen in (p. 1)
• GF Piping Systems bundles its research (p. 1)

Market strategies

• "Freed from the daily routine": GF Piping Systems is pooling its global research operations into a single technology center in Schaffhausen. (p. 2)
• Model for the future: ConceptCell –a globally unique concept from GF AgieCharmilles – is making automation tangible. (p. 2)
• Financial calendar 1st half of 2008 (p. 2)
• Solid numbers, explained in style: Hundreds of photographs and texts, dozens of opinions, sleepless nights, endless checking [...] (p. 3)
• Success with the "little tigers": GF Piping Systems is increasingly active in the booming economies of Southeast Asia, the so-called little tigers. [...] (p. 3)
• Fighting corruption: Corporate Compliance Officer Barbara Senn's job at GF is to watch over laws and internal guidelines. (p. 4)
• Interview: "We want to do business fairly and legally" (p. 4)

Customer projects

• Treasures buried under red sand: An ore mine in Australia relies on automatic cooling systems from GF. (p. 5)
• London's residential stadium: Many wives complain that their husbands live in the football stadium. [...] (p. 5)
• Outlook: sunny – For GF Piping Systems, the solar industry is an important growth market. [...] (p. 6)
• Interview: Everything revolves around the sun (p. 6)

Technology products

• Loyalty pays off: GF AgieCharmilles plans to roll out its Privilege Club [...] in three further countries this year. (p. 7)
• (Hi)stories: Fittings from malleable cast iron to plastic – two hundred years of Georg Fischer leading-edge developments (p. 7)
• Technology products (p. 8)
• Competent consulting made visible: With a virtual automobile, GF Automotive demonstrates its know-how as a solution provider. (p. 8)
• The intelligent machine: New software makes the machining centers of GF AgieCharmilles even better. [...] (p. 8)
• Visual inspections: Cast to fit (p. 8)
• Design research: Nature as a model (p. 8)
• Environmental protection: Fewer heavy metals in use (p. 8)
• OHSAS for everyone: Your health! (p. 8)
• Revolution in the kitchen: As Black Friday brought the world economy to its knees and business at Schaffhausen's foundries began to flag, GF stated doing the dishes [...] (p. 9)

People experience

• The agile Wushu fighter: Guo Guangxin learned to fight in school. [...] (p. 10)
• Darling colleague: Love at the workplace – it happens all the time. But how do the people concerned deal with it? [...] (p. 11)
• Interview: Discretion! (p. 11)
• Appointments (p. 11)
• Managerial reshuffle: Who are the men who have shaped GF in recent years and will lead the company in future? [...] (p. 12)
• Top marks for GF: Pipefitters are taught on GF Piping Systems equipment. (p. 12)
• So what does …: … Peter Woods do? (p. 12)
• Achievement pays off: Thomas Bachmann completed his training as a foundry mechanic at GF Automotive with distinction. [...] (p. 13)
• Academy in China (p. 13)
• Interview: The employer as a branded item (p. 13)

Site portrait

• Wide- open spaces: The USA is a huge market for GF AgieCharmilles, but competitive pressure is also immense. (p. 14)
• Interview: "Customers want hard facts, now" – Glynn Fletcher explains what the ICE managements system is all about. (p. 14)
• Service tips (p. 15)
• Though men at hot furnaces: Prevention is better than treatment [...] (p. 15)
• Healthy service: Works doctors like Bernhard Kaerkes focus on employees' health. (p. 15)
• Masthead (p. 15)

Living culture

• Here comes the sun: In beautiful Ticino, GF staff can enjoy a particularly good value holiday [...] (p. 16)
• New bloom for medieval flowers: The murals of the Iron Library, which date to the late Middle Ages have been restored [...] (p. 16)
• My city: Paris – Chic and culture, city-wide (p. 16)