BAD KREUZNACH. Family-owned business Allit AG Kunststofftechnik based in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, remains poised for growth. A new construction project is under way that is geared to further strengthen the company’s positive development. Spread across an area of 5,000 square metres, a two-storeyed hall will be built offering 4,800 square metres of useful floor space for production and warehousing. The Kallinowsky family, via their own photovoltaic company, have invested a total of around five million euros into the project, which is considered to be the largest building project in the company’s history. A major portion of the revenue generated by the photovoltaic company thus flows back for the benefit of the Group. The roof of the new facility will also be equipped with a photovoltaic system capable of supplying 2.2 percent of Allit’s overall power needs. In this way, Allit will be able to reduce its external power supply requirements by around 1 million kilowatt-hours over a period of three years although production has risen by approximately 18 percent.
In its 52th financial year ended 31 March 2012, the Allit group has achieved a consolidated revenue of 54 million euros, thus remaining slightly ahead of projections. The current financial year is expected to yield around 57 million euros. The balance sheet total amounts to 36 million euros; the equity ratio exceeds 55 percent.
Allit intends to further increase its capacities in Bad Kreuznach. The company’s participation in Pall Modultechnik GmbH is also proceeding on a positive course. The space offered by the new building is thus all the more urgently needed to augment production.
More than 70 injection moulding machines are currently working around the clock, except for five days a year. Since manufacturing processes as well as the operation and maintenance activities to be performed on injection moulding machines and mould-making machines are becoming ever more sophisticated, Allit attaches prime importance to the recruitment and long-term employment of qualified personnel.
Allit is currently also addressing other challenges:
In response to the triplication of labour costs incurred over the past four years by Allit’s subsidiary in Qingdao, a location counting among China’s ten most important cities, Allit’s Chinese site has been reorganised. Thanks to modern data transfer technologies, the facility’s manufacturing activities can be easily controlled from Bad Kreuznach. “Allit Qingdao” is increasingly positioning itself as an expert manufacturing company catering to the Chinese market. Due to dramatic fluctuations in the exchange rate, the price of purchases from China has risen by 25 percent. The country thus no longer presents itself as an inexpensive “extended workbench”, but instead subscribes to the goals laid out by its government, namely to manufacture higher-end products rather than focussing on the sale of low-priced goods, explains Allit’s CEO Hans Kallinowsky.
Allit has again participated as an exhibitor in important specialist trade fairs, such as the International Hardware Fair in Cologne and the LogiMAT trade fair in Stuttgart, showcasing the company’s range of new and innovative storage and logistics products with great success. These events have provided a valuable opportunity to gain new business contacts with prospective customers both at home and abroad. The turnover generated by Allit’s subsidiary Allit France, via whom Allit has been conquering the market since April 2009, has also shown a dynamic development already accounting for seven percent of the Group’s overall turnover.
Allit’s subsidiary Dr. Heinrich Messtechnik GmbH continues to concentrate on the European market. The company is currently honing its profile as a supplier of niche products in the field of measurement technology, with a special focus on the provision of engineering services. The company’s in-house software department develops software applications made to customers’ specifications. Germany is the most important sales market for Schneider Messtechnik, closely followed by Switzerland and the rapidly growing Russian market.
The current staff of the Allit group is comprised of 361 employees, 50 of whom are working at Schneider Messtechnik; 25 apprentices trained in six different professions will meet the company’s future need for qualified personnel.
Allit’s 50th anniversary celebrated in 2010 was perceived as a well-timed opportunity to commence writing an exceptional book and to present it now in German, English and Chinese. The book entitled “Allit 360o – a very special guided tour“ reflects the company’s vibrant character. It contains a collection of entertaining texts and high-quality photographs enabling the reader to take a trip through the past and the present of the Allit group, which was established in 1960 although its roots reach back as far as to the year 1840. In order to show at first glance that the company is specialised in the field of plastics processing, the book’s front and back cover consist of a solid plastic sheet designed in Allit’s yellow corporate colour and bearing a high-gloss lettering: “Allit”. In this sense, the book also serves as a reference testifying to the company’s expertise in high-quality injection moulding.
