Regional commissioner takes a look at silent champions

21.04.2017

Sebastian Constien visited the FMG roller factory in Körchow yesterday and called for apprenticeship training.

Koechow.This Thursday morning, the district administrator of the Rostock district, Sebastian Constien (SPD), came to visit Förderelemente Mecklenburg GmbH (FMG) in Körchow - a company that was admittedly unknown to the commissioner before his visit. The main administrative officer of the district apparently came up with this in a round with the local business association - under the motto “We visit the silent champions”. This is what Sebastian Constien reports. It is about companies that have been around for a long time, are an important local employer, but are relatively unknown. In terms of brand awareness, FMG managing director Uwe Eilers can contribute a current example from the region with a wink. Because even the Krempin farmer Manfred Meyer, who is first deputy mayor of the neighboring municipality of Carinerland, only found out from Eilers on Easter Friday that the Körchower company was producing conveyor elements, of which Meyer could soon need a few: “Oh, next time, if I need a role, I'll come to you, ” he said.

In front of the district administrator, FMG managing director Anja Wendt throws some spotlights on the history of the company, which was founded on November 29, 1991 by her father, the Kröpeliner Thomas Schuster, together with his former engineering colleague from the Rostock Neptune shipyard, Bernd Lehmann, and five men from the LPG "German-Soviet Friendship" was founded on Waldweg in Körchow.

The company manufactures and sells transport rollers for piece goods and bulk goods as well as carrier rollers, mainly made of steel and plastic.

“We don't have such spectacular products with our numerous roller types, but they are in demand - we have grown continuously over the years,” says Anja Wendt proudly. FMG supplies 80 percent to companies nationwide and 20 percent across Europe (Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belgium and one customer each in Poland and Scandinavia). A “major investment project” was implemented between 2011 and 2014: “We expanded and redesigned the social rooms for our employees, added a new production hall and renewed the office wing. Eleven jobs were added, so that today we have a total of 42 employees in the company. ”Cutting machine operators (lathe operators) are currently being sought. So far they have been working successfully with the job center in Bad Doberan.

"Very nice. I like to hear that. A close connection to the job center is very important, ”says the guest from Güstrow and also emphasizes the importance of training young people in business. “Anyone who does not deal intensively with this topic now will run into difficulties because the job market will become even thinner,” the district administrator says, because they are not yet training. Then they explained the company's succession: “Both of our founders are still here as directors. But if things continue as they are, Uwe Eilers and I will take over the company's succession", Anja Wendt explains.

“An important topic”, Sebastian Constien reacts and adds: “We have a lot of companies in the district where this is not yet regulated.” Then the district administrator would like to know a little more precisely and asks, for example, how the contacts to new customers are made and how this contacts would arise. "You can find us on the Internet", Anja Wendt answers succinctly, highlights the homepage of her company (www.fmg-rollen.com) and praises the new FMG image film by Kröpeliner Sebastian Krauleidis. “The Internet is a sales channel that is becoming more and more important. You shouldn't neglect that, ”she emphasizes and then leads the district administrator through the entire operation together with Uwe Eilers.

Sebastian Constien finally thanks for the "very pleasant appointment", praises the good Körchower connection to the job center and is pleased that the first quarter of 1 at FMG has gone very well, as it has already belonged to other companies in the district. On the other hand, the district administrator regrets that the company and its community (Biendorf) do not seem to have good contact (beyond a single formal letter) to one another, as became clear in the conversation. He believes: "We can work at that, if there is the will to do so."

By Thomas Hoppe | Newspaper: Ostseezeitung