“It is fun to visit a
hidden champion
like Schuler,” says
BDI President Prof.
Dieter Kempf.
It’s a building that provides plenty of space to work
and plenty of freedom to think. And these two
aspects are what make Schuler a prime example of a
hidden champion from Baden-Württemberg.”
CEO Klebert: driving future topics
Schuler’s CEO Stefan Klebert explained: “As the
market leader in metal forming, we need excellent
employees. And with our new S. I. T., we can offer
outstanding working conditions for such good people.
The fact that our innovation center was built here
in Göppingen is also further proof of the company’s
clear commitment to its roots and to Germany as
a location for premium technology. From our base
in the Schuler Innovation Tower, we will continue
to drive the future topics of plant and machine
engineering, the digitization of products and
company processes, and the field of electromobility.”
BDI President Kempf: mid-size companies must
remain backbone
At the ceremony in Göppingen, the President of
the Federation of German Industries (BDI), Dieter
Kempf, demanded more political backing for small
and mid-sized companies: “The fact that Germany is
one of the few industrialized nations not to give tax
breaks for research and not to provide its companies
with a competitive infrastructure is illustrated by
numerous international comparisons. Although
Germany is ranked the fourth most innovative
industrialized nation, it still lags a long way behind
the leader Switzerland. And when it comes to
digitization, we only just manage 17th place. In other
words, politicians need to do their homework so that
our small and mid-sized industrial companies
can remain the backbone of a strong German
economy.”
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