Globe, Newspaper for Georg Fischer Employees, No. 1, Mars 2007
Contents:
- GF goes in at the deep end: Engineers from GF Piping Systems are making sure that the water flows on Dubai's luxurious Palm Islands. (p. 1)
- A highly sought-after employer: Successful recruitment of graduates from China's universities. (p. 1)
- Market strategies: Share price at record high (p. 1)
- Market strategies: GF better known (p. 1)
- Annual report: GF still on growth course (p. 1)
- Gigantic construction project (p. 1)
Market strategies
- We make good money: GF had a really prosperous 2006. [Interview with Roland Abt, Head of Finance and Controlling (CFO) and a member of the Executive Committee] (p. 2)
- Glossary (p. 2)
- Precious energy: Georg Fischer is a responsible company – when it comes to the environment too. [...] (p. 3)
- Top-class savers: Georg Fischer is awarded the GreenLight plaque by the European Commission. (p. 3)
- Heat recovery pays off: Foundries need lots of energy for production. Heat recovery saves energy – and therefore costs. (p. 3)
- Saving energy made easy (p. 3)
Customer projects
- Chips need purest water: Since building its first semiconductor factory in Dresden, AMD has relied on water treatment plants from GF Piping Systems. (p. 4)
- Interview: Partners for a decade (p. 4)
- In a single cast, in eight seconds: Georg Fischer Automotive produces around 550000 transmission cross-members a year for Audi [...] (p. 5)
Technology products
- Material changes the world: Georg Fischer had already started producing plastic fittings back in 1957. (p. 6)
- Technology products (p. 7)
- Pooled know-how: The partnership between GF, FAG and Knorr-Bremse is creating knowledge networks, boosting innovative capacity and speeding up development. (p. 7)
- Approval for pipes (p. 7)
- Ultra-high precision hits 100 mark (p. 7)
- Interview: Strategic expansion in North America (p. 7)
- Learning the skills: GF AgieCharmilles trains customers all around the world. (p. 7)
- Looking beyond one's nose: Improved processes, new products and additional market segments are the key to success for Georg Fischer [...] (p. 8)
- Slimfast technology: New generator enables production of cost-saving thin-walled moulds. (p. 9)
- Turbulence-free casting: The car of the future will have to weigh less, GF's foundry in Garching is now testing a process that is lighter on material. (p. 9)
- So what does… …Christian Reymond do? (p. 9)
People experience
- Welcome to GF! (p. 10)
- Thinking out of the box: GF Piping Systems trains staff in team building in order to be able to meet the market's challenges. (p. 10)
- Interview: Intensive training (p. 10)
- Appointments (p. 10)
- True dedication: [Interview with Oscar Palmquist, Head of Latin America for GF in the USA] (p. 11)
- At the interface: Corporation-wide, more than 220 Georg Fischer employee representatives are working to promote staff interests. (p. 12)
- Experience (p. 12)
- On a permanent posting: Michael Allmang is the Georg Fischer Key Account Manager for Volkswagen [...] (p. 13)
- We are GLOBE: Professionals work on the employee newspaper all over the … GLOBE. [...] (p. 13)
Site portrait
- To move and to preserve: The Iron Library at Klostergut Paradies is a magnet for academics from all over the world. (p. 14)
Service tips
- Those who work hard need to eat well: Healthy eating is not a question of time, and it can be done at work as well as at home. [...] (p. 15)
- Advertising history: Over the course of time, the face of GF's promotional efforts has changed considerably [...] (p. 15)
- Insider tips: Don’t miss (p. 15)
- Insider tips: A joy to the ears (p. 15)
- Masthead (p. 15)
Living culture
- A cupful of dark secrets: It wakes the body and beguiles the mind – coffee is enjoyed all over the world. (p. 16)
- So what is this Web 2.0 exactly? : The World Wide Web is undergoing radical change as more users create content (p. 16)
- My city: São Paulo – "A city with something for everyone" (p. 16)
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