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    Ceremonial opening of the new production facility in Mallersdorf

    It is a small town in Bavaria: Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg is located between Regensburg and Landshut and has around 6,500 inhabitants. But for two days in July, the picturesquely located town was the central attraction for numerous top-class business partners from the energy supply industry, nuclear facilities, leading planning offices and other guests of Krantz.

    On 13 July 2022, the new production facility was officially inaugurated under the motto "connected to tradition, committed to the future". The following day, a competence seminar was held with international and national expert presentations.

     "In order to face the challenges of the future, the increased number of employees here at the Mallersdorf site and the demands of ever larger components, it is now time for us to move into a new modern production facility." Norbert Schröder, Managing Director of Krantz, was pleased to be able to present "this important investment in our future" to his approximately 150 guests.

    The new production facility primarily manufactures filter and shut-off systems that are used wherever there are the highest requirements for filtering and safely shutting off air and gases, for example, in the dismantling of nuclear facilities, in high safety laboratories of protection levels 3 and 4, but also for the destruction of war gases and preventively to prevent the uncontrolled spread of contamination, as happened in Chernobyl and Fukushima - whenever it is important that no dangerous particles or gases are allowed to escape. Here we invite you to a 360° panorama tour.

    "We have moved into a modern and larger production facility that meets our future needs," he said in his inauguration speech. "We have thus created a contemporary, modern working environment for the employees. And even though a lot has been demanded of our workforce by the move and the parallel maintenance of operations in production, the nicer environment and the more efficient processes in production certainly compensate."

    The new production site is around 5,000 square metres in size, one and a half times larger than before. It is equipped with an expanded machine park, several powerful crane systems, a sufficient number of welding workstations, both manual, semi-automatic and fully automated welding cells, as well as an enlarged blasting facility.

    The new production facility also makes it possible to manufacture assemblies and systems for Krantz's growth area Air Technologies in-house. "The new location thus creates ideal conditions for optimally mastering our future challenges and projects," says Norbert Schröder. It allows for 100 percent vertical integration - Made in Germany. 

    Great interest in state-of-the-art technology "Made in Germany  

    The Krantz team was pleased with the great interest that the inauguration brought. The District Administrator of the Straubing Bogen district, Josef Laumer, the first Mayor of the market town of Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg, Christian Dobmeier, the builder and lessor of the new production halls, Robert Fahrner, and the Managing Director of STEAG Energy Services and Deputy Shareholder STEAG, Ulrich Sigel, were among those who warmly congratulated the new production facility.

    The invitation to the inauguration was also accepted by around 100 business partners of the Krantz who, on the day following the official invitation, took part with interest in the competence seminar "Nuclear ventilation and filter technology and special solutions for dismantling". They are all experts in deconstruction and ventilation and looked at, among other things, what Krantz has achieved together with its customers. In addition to international presentations on specialist topics, the staff gave an impressive demonstration of what is already possible today with state-of-the-art technology and what modern manufacturing can achieve. "We are showing the business of the future here," explains Norbert Schröder. As a specialist for safety filters, Krantz is an important partner not only for energy supply companies, for example in the dismantling of nuclear facilities of any kind. In the field of high-security technology for laboratories, the company works together with the leading national and international human and animal laboratories, for example the Robert Koch Institute, the Friedrich Löffler Institute and the Bernhard Nocht Institute, the former Institute for Tropical Medicine.

    "We are proud that highly qualified safety systems for nuclear technology and safety laboratories have been manufactured at the Mallersdorf site for more than 45 years and that, despite various company changes, the employees and thus the know-how have remained with Krantz," emphasises Norbert Schröder.