Workshop meeting for locksmiths and welders from all judicial institutions in Bavaria
Category: Company | | Created by Lea PfingstenIn May, we were pleased to welcome a total of 25 correctional officers to the company premises of Loibl Förderanlagen GmbH. The participants from a total of 15 Bavarian correctional facilities were guests in Straubing for a work service conference, which included a visit to a regional company with its own manufacturing department. The event was organized by Frank Fraunholz, work service manager at Bayreuth's St. Georgen correctional facility, who supervised the skilled locksmiths and welders during the three-day meeting.
At the Straubing site, Loibl plans and manufactures individual transport solutions and state-of-the-art special machines for international energy producers and users from the bulk materials industry. "We have been a successful medium-sized company from the region for more than 60 years," reports Richard Stoiber, Managing Director.
In a short presentation, he and production manager Hermann Lehner introduce the traditional Loibl company. "At our production site in Straubing, we can not only blast and paint, we are also equipped with a pickling line and our own final assembly area," says Lehner. Crucial independence and quality factors that account for the company's success. "Our high level of vertical integration means we can always respond quickly, which makes planning easier for our international customers." The correctional officers are particularly impressed by the fact that Loibl does not engage in series production. Instead, heavy machinery, all custom-made, is moved through the production halls on a daily basis. "Our employees can easily manage up to 120 tons per month," Lehner confirms.
After the presentation, the participants are guided through the factory halls. Equipped with the necessary safety equipment, the skilled metalworkers and welders start off in the machine park. In view of the dimensions, the conference participants go into raptures. "It's great to see all this live," says Frank Fraunholz. During the tour, the participants experience the daily routine in the production facilities up close. It's noisy. Machines are turning, sparks are flying, accompanied by hammers and the hiss of welding equipment. "Here, of course, it's all a bit smaller in scale," Fraunholz laughs. He has been the works service manager at Bayreuth Prison for many years and organizes the works service conference of the locksmiths and welders of all correctional facilities in Bavaria on the side. A task he enjoys doing, as he admits. Straubing is a special location for the conference participants, as they completed their correctional officer training here at the Bavarian Prison Academy.
An additional training that every staff member who wants to work in a correctional facility must complete. "We are specially prepared and trained to deal with the inmates," says Fraunholz.
Which is not always easy, as some conference participants confirm. For example, they often have to deal with younger inmates who have gone off the rails due to difficult family relationships and drug abuse. Often, they still suffer from concentration problems and traumatic stress disorders even years after their withdrawal. Through various training programs, they are offered the chance of a new life after their prison sentence. The correctional officers support the inmates every day with their skills so that they can later start a regular working life and a normal everyday life. "We are trainers, pastors and counselors all at the same time," says Peter Held, master craftsman at Aichach Prison.
In the paint shop, the conference participants are allowed to stand in the shell of a wet paint stripper, the scale of which fascinates most of them. Until now, many of them had no idea where their waste ends up after disposal and how it has to be processed to recover valuable residual materials that can be used in other industries. Conveyor systems from Loibl are important components for the circular economy. "Our products mesh like gears," says Hermann Lehner. "Loibl's product diversity enables operators to efficiently cool down waste after incineration, sort it, convey it over long distances, and finally divide it in such a way that a sustainable closed-loop system is created."
But Loibl is not only active in the waste and slag processing industry. Conveying systems from Loibl are also used in biomass power plants or in industries such as the paper, food, and recycling industries.
The tour ends in the final assembly hall. There, quality controls and machine tests as well as test runs are carried out on the conveyors. "On behalf of all participants, I would like to thank you very much for this great tour and the valuable insights into the Loibl company," says Frank Fraunholz.
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