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SMS Opens Another Workshop in China
06/01/2012 - SMS Siemag AG has opened a 20 million Euro workshop near Shanghai, China, at which 350 employees will work in assembly, service, repairs and functional testing.
Welcoming more than 300 guests, Burkhard Dahmen, president and CEO of SMS Siemag AG, inaugurated the new 20 million Euro SMS Siemag workshop in Zhangjiagang near Shanghai, China, on 31 May 2012. Some 350 employees will work in assembly, service, repairs, and functional testing at the workshop. The facility, together with the SMS Meer workshop opened two years ago, plus other engineering and service branches in China, means that almost 1,000 of the SMS group's 11,000 employees worldwide are now located in China. Together they generate total sales of over EUR 3 billion, of which more than some EUR 600 million come from business with Chinese customers.
The SMS group pursues a twin strategy. First, it is investing massively in expanding and modernizing the German production locations in Hilchenbach and Mönchengladbach. This is where the group develops and manufactures the core components of its plants and machinery.
Second, SMS is systematically expanding its presence on major markets such as China by hiring qualified personnel and building manufacturing and service workshops. In this way, the company will guarantee local supply and service shares demanded by customers in these markets.
The SMS group is, under the roof of SMS Holding GmbH, a group of companies internationally active in plant construction and mechanical engineering for the steel and nonferrous metals industry. Its 11,000 employees generate sales of over EUR 3 bn.
