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Arburg agrees further educational partnerships
· Contracts signed with two secondary schools in Freudenstadt, Germany
· Long-standing collaboration set to continue
· School students learn for life in numerous joint projects
Lossburg/Freudenstadt. On 16 July 2015, Arburg confirmed its long-standing educational partnership with two local secondary schools, Falkenrealschule and Heinrich-Schickhardt-Schule, agreeing a set of shared goals. Arburg Managing Partner Renate Keinath and the two school principals, Stefanie Maier, Falkenrealschule, and Peter Stumpp, Heinrich-Schickhardt-Schule, met at the Top Job training and education fair in Freudenstadt's Kurhaus to sign the cooperation agreements.
"This cooperative venture benefits both the schools and our company," said Managing Partner Renate Keinath, who is responsible for Human Resources Management at Arburg. "When they come to us, school-goers learn about what it is like to work in an innovative machine construction company and we also get to know potential trainees and future employees away from an interview setting." This is why it was important to continue the long-standing intensive cooperation with the schools and to place it on a firm footing by means of partnership agreements, she explained. In all, Arburg now has six education partnerships: these involve Falkenrealschule and Heinrich-Schickhardt-Schule in Freudenstadt, Werkrealschule Dornhan-Lossburg, the secondary schools in Dornhan and Lossburg, and the Teacher Training College in Freudenstadt.
Successful cooperation
Peter Stumpp, principal of Heinrich-Schickhardt-Schule, was delighted that the partnership agreement will define future activities as well as goals. He said that a few ideas had already been proposed. Stefanie Maier, principal of Falkenrealschule Freudenstadt, agreed and added: "Thanks to the cooperation with Arburg, our pupils not only gain vital insights into the world of work, but our teaching and administrative staff also gain from the intensive exchange and are able to gather valuable practical experience."
Numerous projects offer an insight into the world of work
Arburg offers students many opportunities to get to know the wide range of training options available at the machine construction company and to sample the working atmosphere. The programme includes the annual Arburg information event and the company's participation in internal information exchange events at schools, the provision of work experience placements in various departments either during term or during the holidays, presentation of the various traineeships in the classroom and numerous individual projects with the schools. For example, the "Music Box" project was run in cooperation with the Falkenrealschule and was presented at the Top Job 2015 training and education fair: For six months, 13 students spent one afternoon each week at Arburg after school, developing and building a loudspeaker with amplifier for smartphones. They were supervised by first year trainees from the Electrical and Metalworking Department.
Heinrich-Schickhardt-Schule and Arburg have been cooperating in the vocational training sector for several decades. Projects have also been implemented with the senior classes of the Technical College as part of the SIA Engineering Academy for Schools programme. A recent example of the work carried out here was the creation of the production documents, including working plans, parts lists and design drawings, for the building of a 1:32 scale model of a truck.
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Arburg Managing Partner Renate Keinath (third from left) signed an education partnership agreement with the principals of Falkenrealschule and Heinrich-Schickhardt-Schule, Stefanie Maier (second from right) and Peter Stumpp (left) This was also welcomed by Heike Baumeister, the liaison officer at Falkenrealschule, Dr. Klaus Michael Rückert, head of the Freudenstadt District Authority (third from right) and Julian Osswald, Mayor of Freudenstadt.
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About Arburg
German machine manufacturer Arburg is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of injection moulding machines with clamping forces between 125 and 5,000 kN. This is complemented by robotic systems, customer- and sector-specific turnkey solutions and further peripherals. An innovative additive manufacturing system was added to the plastic processing range in 2013.
The company places the topic of production efficiency at the centre of all its activities, taking into account the entire value-added chain. The objective is to enable Arburg's customers to manufacture their plastic products, whether one-off parts or high-volume production, in optimal quality and at minimum unit cost – e.g. for the automotive and packaging industries, communication and entertainment electronics, medical technology, or the white goods sector.
An international sales and service network guarantees first-class, local customer support. Arburg is represented by its own organisations at 32 locations in 24 countries and by trading partners in more than 50 countries. The machines are produced exclusively at the parent factory in Lossburg, Germany. From a total of around 2,400 employees, around 2,000 work in Germany. About 400 further employees work in Arburg’s organisations around the world. In 2012, Arburg became one of the first companies to gain triple certification to: ISO 9001 (Quality), ISO 14001 (Environment) and ISO 50001 (Energy).
Further information about Arburg can be found at www.arburg.com.
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