Every year, Slavdom employees undergo master classes and training from leading manufacturers of building materials, thereby improving their qualifications and increasing their knowledge base. One of the main points of the training is the exchange of experience and the strengthening of partnerships.
In 2016, the year began with training in Germany at the Roben clinker and floor tiles factories, which were personally attended by the company's top managers and Mr. Wilhelm Röben himself.
German partners conducted familiarization tours of the factories, where they showed the entire process of clinker production, from visiting a quarry where high-quality clay is extracted, to packaging of various types of products. All the capabilities of RÖBEN manufacturing plants were demonstrated:
- Bannberscheid - clinker brick, tile and clinker paving plant;
- Querenstede - brick factory and hand-molded tile factory;
- Schweinebrück is a factory for the production of floor ceramics and porcelain stoneware.
The highlight of the trip was a presentation at the Roben headquarters in Zetel (Zetel, Klein Schweinebrück), dedicated to the development of the company over several centuries, as well as the technologies that are used in factories. It should be noted that the entire production process is perfectly tuned due to the maximum automation of the entire production cycle. The factories employ a small number of people, mainly performing supervisory functions.
The first and oldest plant of the company, as well as the ancestral estate of the Roben family (headquarters of the company), is located in Zetel. It is here that the company has its origins since 1855. For a little over a century, the company has been producing only clinker bricks. But since 1958, the plant began to produce floor tiles. Today the production volume of the Schweinebrück plant is 850 thousand m2 of tiles per year.
The technologies implemented at the Schweinebrück and Querenstede factories can be called the most advanced, as the participants of the training were personally convinced of. As part of the excursion, the first trial batch of a new type of tile with a 3D pattern, imitating wood and stone, was demonstrated. But according to the manufacturer, even a photograph can be used for a 3D drawing.
And at the Querenstede plant, they showed secret technologies for automatic sorting of tiles by color and caliber without the participation of human resources.
At a personal meeting with the company's management and personally with Mr. Wilhelm-Renke Röben, important issues of developing partnerships in the context of economic instability in Russia were discussed. It is pleasant to note that the top managers of the company are following the development of the Russian economy with particular interest and are developing a number of anti-crisis proposals for the Russian market.
