Lean Production at Capron for Belarusian Managers

Young entrepreneurs and executives from Belarus visited the state capital of Saxony to find business contacts here as part of their BMWi Manager Training Programme. Their prospects were good, because Belarus is especially interesting for export-oriented German businesses due to its role as a transit country and member state of the Eurasian Customs Union. Continue reading

From reed to raw material

In the sprawling Dnieper delta, where the mainland is replaced by ever smaller outcrops of land, thrives the fastest-growing renewable source of energy in huge quantities: reeds. It perhaps doesn’t come as a surprise that the locals have meanwhile developed ways to monetise this raw material that is available in such abundance. Continue reading

A Passion for a Green Future

Walid Elrawy worked in the textile industry for twenty years. He earned his living selling workwear for the medical, gastronomy and trade industries. However, for many years now, his real passion has actually been solar energy. In 2014, the engineer specialising in mechatronics, participated in the MP. The concept of “exploring new horizons” applies to him in many ways. Continue reading

EuroBLECH and the apple harvest

The sheet metal industry once again met up for its largest trade fair world wide – EuroBLECH – which was held from 25 to 29 October 2016 in Hanover. Among more than 60,000 visitors was a group of 19 young Russian and Belarusian executives who came to Celle for the MP training at DMAN. Continue reading

Then and now

When an alliance of Russian soldiers and Bashkir bowmen rode to Dresden to free the city from Napoleonic rule in autumn 1813, the mounted fighters already attracted the attention of the locals due to their traditional dress and seemingly archaic weapons. Continue reading