Employee Magazine of the KAMAX Group
2022 | 01
Since the end of February, a war has been raging in Europe again, that many people could not and do not want to have imagined.
Vladimír Košíček has been Turnov’s plant manager for more than a quarter of a century and has built up the site into the economically strongest of the entire KAMAX Group.
Our plant in Alsfeld (Germany) is closing its doors for good at the end of June. Around 40 employees will be transferred to other plants and a fair transitional solution has been created for the other employees.
Even though the year 2021 lies a bit behind us, we still want to draw attention to the winners of the KAMAX Awards once again.
After a partnership that has already lasted for decades, KAMAX has now acquired a majority stake in the Spanish coating company GALOL in the Valencia region.
In cooperation with our partner nexineer, we have found a new way to simplify cross-plant exchange and optimize production planning using the HoloLens technology.
A new basis for our business processes
The newest addition to the Global Management Team and Lapeer Leadership is Mike Zimmerman. He joined KAMAX in November of 2021 as the Vice President of Americas Operations and Managing Director of Lapeer.
Chrisoula Angelidou, VP Global Human Resources
While many employees from other KAMAX sites were able to help out when the first Chinese plant was established in Wujin, the set-up of production in Jintan is only possible without on-site support due to the pandemic.
Although the pandemic and the war in neighboring Ukraine have demanded a great deal from the employees in Bardejov, the new plant is now running serial part production.
Ready to go out at any time and possibly even risking their own lives for their colleagues: This is what currently 34 employees at our Osterode plant stand for.
We have all known it for a long time: electric mobility will become increasingly important in the future! We are successively producing more fasteners for electric-powered cars.
Andre Schmidt is firmly attached to KAMAX since his apprenticeship. Even in his spare time, vehicles are a part of him. As a motorcycle fan and real tinkerer, he brought an almost forgotten barn find back to life …
