| 50 years
Lindauer DORNIER GmbH Introduction |
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| 50 years
Lindauer DORNIER GmbH Introduction |
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Dear Readers, Our
company is 50 years old this year, our customer magazine “Insider” 10
issues old. Reason enough to depart from the usual style of actual
customer profiles and technical descriptions covering product development
and devote a few sentences to the birthday children. When
almost 50 years ago the first company cars for our service technicians
were purchased, to provide them with a quicker and better means of
transport to our at that time almost exclusively German customers, our
land was a picture of a country divided after the war and to a great
extent lying in ruins. In Germany at that time, in addition to the young
Lindauer DORNIER 15 other companies were trying to develop weaving
machines, or looms as they were then called. Forty
years later in the fall of 1990, as we drafted the first issue of our new
customer magazine, Germany had not only become the most important
exporting nation in the world, but was also once more a unified country.
The fax machine and PC had improved our communication with our customers
enormously. Our level of exports had reached 72% and in Germany at this
time there were still three independent weaving machine manufacturers. Today
– in the year 2000 – data communication via the Internet and the use
of miniaturized mobile phones and computers has made us accessible from
practically anywhere in the world and round the clock. Germany is one of
the richest countries in the world, Europe a reality, and we look back
over almost 50 years of peace in our region. In Germany only one
independent manufacturer of weaving machines is still in existence:
Lindauer DORNIER GmbH, 87% of our production being exported. In
addition to a strong feeling of gratitude and a certain degree of
astonishment one experiences when looking back over such a long, happy and
successful time, the question arises as to why particularly our company
came through these 50 years of rapid development better than others. Anyone
searching for an answer to this question should while taking a tour of our
works, in addition to our modern machine tools, machines and computers,
ask also to be shown a small inconspicuous building on our campus – our
training workshop or apprentices. Already
in the first year of our existence in 1951, 25 young people were trained
there in what for us were the most important professions. Since then almost
1000 young people have left this building as skilled workers and some of
them – today holding high positions have
made a significant ontribution to the success of our company. Not just the
application of the latest technologies, but their thoughtful nd considered
utilization by male and female employees with inventive spirit and a
strong feeling of personal responsibility have decisively contributed to
our progress over the last 50 years. Therefore
we dedicate this edition of our INSIDER not only to our loyal customers
and employees, but in particular to those 88 young people currently being
trained in our company. It is our sincere wish that some of them will go
on to give our company new impetus in order for us to surprise our
customers with intelligent and innovative solutions also in the coming
years. Peter Dornier, Chairman of the board Lindauer Dornier GmbH |
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