Staffing Boosted at Kurtz Eisenguss

With the implementation of the SMART FOUNDRY last year, Kurtz Ersa made the biggest investment in the history of the company and at the same time created the conditions for the successful reorientation of the foundry which has been in operation since 1852. The aim now is the fastest possible ramp-up of production – observing the quality and grade requirements of the customer.

In order to meet these challenges, numerous positions in middle management at Kurtz Eisenguss GmbH & Co. KG have been either newly-filled or boosted. Matthias Hofmann – up to then head of the process department in Kurtz GmbH – has assumed the plant management and the management of administration in the SMART FOUNDRY as of 1 August, 2015. The Bachelor of Engineering thus bears overall responsibility for the areas of production, process engineering, maintenance, process control and logistics. Since 1 October, 2015, Sebastian Martensen has been responsible for production in the foundry. His outstanding knowledge of the production sequence processes and his many years of experience in the automotive industry ensure improved procedures and process reliability in implementing customer orders. Another position with was newly-filled at the same time was the management of the company´s own logistic department: Logistics expert Hans-Jürgen Ehehalt has taken on the responsibilities and looks after the projects in the area of material flow and optimisation – a restructured department supply logistics concept is already in the works.

Since the beginning of September, two further personalities are strengthening the SMART FOUNDRY Team: Florian Thome plans and coordinates the production processes in his position as head of production management and control – following the redesign of the overall process in the course of the reconstruction project, all the strands merge here. Thomas Zeibig, graduate foundry engineer, is responsible for the process engineering and thus for the technological implementation of the orders. With an extraordinarily wealth of know-how, he supports the SMART FOUNDRY team, assisting them in meeting taxing customer requirements to their utmost satisfaction.