roTeg AG: Robot systems for Asia

Specialising on a concrete product is often the key to success for many German SMEs. The company roTeg AG in Dortmund is a good example of this. Founded in 1993, the business first existed primarily as a small engineering office that was still based in the technology centre of Dortmund in 2012. The company consistently improved upon its innovative expertise in the field of palletising and developed sophisticated robot systems for all industries. Continue reading

Good opportunities for TAKRAF in Russia

About 70 percent of the costs of extracting hard coal from the Russian Kuznetsk Basin are incurred from transporting the “black gold” and the overburden from the open-cast mine with enormous tipper trucks. Therefore, mining engineers and technologists are now looking for alternatives. Managers from mining companies and suppliers made up nearly half of the group from the Kemerovo region that spent four weeks training in autumn of 2017 at GICON®-InTraBiD GmbH in Dresden. Continue reading

Family Businesses Inspire

Dirk Gropp, head of the family-run Saxonian Bernhard Werner Nahrungsmittel Produktions- und Handels GmbH, is assessing the supplies in the company’s warehouse. He‘s sifting the potato flour through his fingers: the raw material for the company's products comes from carefully selected agricultural areas,which he regularly travels to perform personal inspections. That‘s the only way he can make sure there are no “surprises“ – just quality from cultivation to packaging. Continue reading

More light for our life


In autumn 2017, the MP participants from Egypt, India, Mexico, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine und Uzbekistan with a focus on Energy Efficiency in Industrial Enterprises visited the company Herbert Waldmann GmbH & Co. KG in Villingen-Schwenningen. Continue reading

Science fiction can be learned

On a frosty November day Sigurd Pfitzner, the Head of quality assurance at First Sensor Microelectronic Packaging GmbH in Dresden, shows his guests from Turkmenistan the production of highly sensitive electronic sensors. It’s all about ultra-pure processes, the tiniest semiconductor structures and adaptive multi-sensor systems. Continue reading

Sinalco: A German Cult Brand Refreshes the World

Sinalco, a brand like no other, stands for soft drinks “Made in Germany” and is the oldest soft drink brand on the European continent. In 2007, Sinalco was included in “Deutsche Standards – Marken des Jahrhunderts” for the first time, a book which presents the leading German brands of the century. Accompanied by trAIDe GmbH from Cologne, 20 Egyptian managers visited Sinalco’s international headquarters and production site in Duisburg in September 2017 within the framework of the MP. Continue reading