 Prime minister of the state of Thuringia Christine Lieberknecht and Frank Orschler, GM of Königsee Implantate GmbH, watch Max Wagner (trainee in his 2nd year) at his machine. |
"Königsee Implantate acts as a role model with its new
training facility for other companies in the region - and that
without any external financial support." Lieberknecht wished
us a lot of success in reaching the goals we set ourselves and left
after a thorough visit of the training center and the main production
building. Up to 10 trainees can be educated as chipping mechanics in the new training center. This possibility is also offered to trainees of other companies in the region. For that we provide an experienced instructor team as well as new machines and rooms. Our focus concerning the content of the traineeship is put on the basic skills, such as grinding, milling, drilling and sawing. These basic skills are often being neglected when looking at todays state of the art machine equipment in most |
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of the companies. But especially these basic skills are so important
in order to get an overall understanding of chipping. "With us,
the trainees do not have to spend their time with cleaning or coffee-cooking
- here they can concentrate on their education", said Frank Orschler
in his welcoming speech. Saying this, he is in line with our overall
goal: "In the future the best chipping mechanics should come
from the training center Königsee". Achieving this goal
is what we will be working on in the new rooms of the training center. One thing we already achieved: The training possibility in Königsee is now safe and the first trainees have finished their education with outstanding results (both 2nd place in the valuation of the international chamber of commerce). Now we hope that the new training center as well as the long lasting cooperation with a school in Königsee provide the ground to be to say one day: The best chipping mechanics come from the Königsee training center. |
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| The program contained a company visit in Aschau as well as practical and theoretical workshops in Jena. Such an event cannot be successful without a cultural program. Therefore sightseeing in Erfurt, dinner at the top of the Intershop-tower and a visit at the planetarium in Jena were a must. Frank Orschler, general manager, said that the workshop was a full success and announced that further workshops will take place. Events like this one are always a good opportunity to close the gap stretching over continents and oceans. | |
 Representing Königsee Implantate GmbH PR-Manager Antonia Kittelmann received the award from Lothar Späth. |
One reason is that we rely also on women. Every second workplace is
occupied by a woman. In our development department are currently even
more women than men. “To be innovative it always needs a new
point of thinking and perspective to find a solution for a problem.
Women are often in the situation to have to coordinate a carrier and
family, which makes them predestined to optimize processes and that
gives them a lot of organizational skills. This way, women often see
the practical way much quicker than men”, says general manager,
Frank Orschler. As an implant producer we do not only have to develop very fast, but also organize the distribution to approx. 1500 customers world wide. In front of this background the cooperation with AIESEC [Link] has proven to be very successful: “The contract with our Finnish distributer was basically negotiated with the help from our former intern from Finland. Now we sell our products |
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to Finland and this former intern is our contact person there because
he was offered a job by the same distributer”, Frank Orschler
explains further. Prof. Franke from the University of Vienna and member of the jury showed in his presentation, that almost half of the turnover is being obtained by small- and medium-sized companies. Half of them are among the TOP 100. – For us, a good feeling to belong to them. |
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30th of June the donation was handed over to the Hospice Bad Berka.
The total amount of 1.000,- € consists to 50% out of the 20,-€
per employee participating in the Thuringian Company run on 09th of
June in Erfurt and to 50% of an additional donation. The cheque was
presented by Frank Orschler and Antonia Kittelmann - representing
all runners - to the manager of the hospice, Mrs. Evelyn Pohl. The
hospice relies to 10% on donations and it plans to use the money for
a sitting area in the garden, where the nursing staff as well as the
residents are able to retreat. Evelyn Pohl, her staff and the residents
are very happy about this gesture and were very grateful for the dedication. We are happy that our efforts were successful. Now, we are already training again for next year. |
 Frank Orschler and Antonia Kittelmann present the cheque of 1.000,- € to Evelyn Pohl and nurse Nicole from the hospice Bad Berka |
 Michael Riese and Jens Abendroth can be proud. They were the first among the whole Königsee-team. |
Frank Orschler, CEO, motivated his employees with a donation of 20 € for every part-taking colleague and announced to donate the total amount to the hospice in Bad Berka (rounded up to 500 €). “Our health is the basis for us to shape our lives according to our wishes. All of us are very lucky that we can move, work and care about our families. Unfortunately this is not always self-evident. In this awareness I am more than happy to see such a big group starting in Erfurt. For once this is good to support the hospice Bad Berka but also for the health and fitness of our employees.” The donation will take place in a few days to the hospice Bad Berka. |
 Also our current intern from Serbia was eager to participate and seemed to have real fun. |
 Anja Huther on her last meters to the goal-line after 5 tiring kilometres with 30°. |
 Silvia Hoffmann and Sabine Bergner shortly in front of the finsh… tired, but happy. |
Almost the whole team in victory pose after the 5-km-run. Each and every one has won.
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Since
2004 every year Königsee Implantate invites girls from the close
school in Königsee to the Girls’ Day. There is a cooperation
between the company and the Regelschule Königsee which includes
the financial and personnel support of working group called “AG
Metall” under the supervision of Matthias Bock who is head in
the sample unit at the company as well as the organisation of the
Girls’ Day at Köngisee Implantate. This year 4 girls from class 7 of the school in Königsee visited us and Matthias Bock explained and showed the girls the production process. They could see also the recently finished training facility and were able to colour titanium plates in the surface treatment unit and could laser their names on this plate. All 4 girls enjoyed this half day with the implants and thanked all employees who spend some time with them in a very nice letter. |
Roland Bradatsch, training instructor of our company, presented the training and learning strategy to Mr. Staschewski in a meeting and oganized a visit to one of the newest and most modern training facilities here in Thuringia. He was interested in the tasks of our trainees and how they were going to realize their projects.
Königsee Implantate currently gives nine young men and women the possibility to train as chipping mechanics or industrial manager.
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Thus the surgeon is more flexible depending on the purpose of use: Some implants should be prevented from concretion because it is to be removed after some time [TiOB-bioinert].
In other cases - such as spine osteosynthesis - the implant has to remain in the body and the rougher surface stimulates the tissue to enclose the implant
[TiOB-bioactive].
Titanium surface TiOB-bioinert
Titanium surface TiOB-bioactiv