
Friday, April 13, was a lucky date for SaMASZ. On that day, the company celebrated opening of a new factory in Zabłudów. It is the premium class facility, which will allow the company to double or even treble the production in time. Over 400 visitors participated in the celebrations, including representatives of the Ministry, government agencies, voivodship, town, self-government, and church governments, university and school authorities, banking sector, business support organizations, entrepreneurs from that region and media representatives.
For its refugee work with Schwandorf’s cross cultural training programme HORSCH was awarded the most important HR award in Germany – the HR Excellence Award. On December 2nd 2016, Cornelia Horsch, head of training Anton Grauvogl and head of HR Gerhard Springs received the prize in the Berliner Tipi of the chancellery. HORSCH ranked first in the category “Innovation” and was honoured for the nationwide exemplary character of the project and the courage, the perseverance and the passion that was involved.
The works on the construction of a new SaMASZ plant in the Commune of Zabłudów are on. It is planned to move in already in the fourth quarter of 2017. The construction started in June 2016 and the work is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2017.
The Case IH brand is a world leader in agricultural equipment. Soon, the company will start a unique year, celebrating its 175th anniversary in its main headquarters in the locality of Racine, Wisconsin.
Amazone, based in Hasbergen-Gaste, invested € 2 million into buildings and equipment of the new test centre. On 9th December 2016, at the official opening of the new investment, Dr. Rainer Resch, in charge of the research and development at Amazone, stressed that the test centre was the decisive factor for Amazone’s further technological progress in the field of research and development. Spending on research and development amounts to about 5% of the Amazone group’s turnover.