Category: ENG – Jászfényszaru

  • Grand Prize for thyssenkrupp at Jász Expo

    Grand Prize for thyssenkrupp at Jász Expo

    We participated in Jász Expo, the biggest economic exhibition of the Jászság this year, as well. At the opening ceremony of the event held in Jászberény, thyssenkrupp, the largest employer of the region received the Grand Prize of the Expo in recognition of its economic role, innovation and its corporate social responsibility activities. The award was handed over to Marc De Bastos Eckstein, Executive Director of thyssenkrupp by Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

    The award is also the recognition of the work of our colleagues in Jászfényszaru!

  • Family day with great interest

    Family day with great interest

    We organized a joint family day for our colleagues of Camshafts and Steering plants in the Jászfényszaru site.

    More than 600 of our colleagues’ family members were invited to the event, where they could participate in various outdoor and health care programs together with their children.

    The family day started at 4 pm and guests of all ages could choose from a wide variety of activities to have fun and relax. The grandiose family day was accompanied by a live radio broadcast and the day ended with concerts.

  • Further growth for thyssenkrupp in Eastern Europe

    Further growth for thyssenkrupp in Eastern Europe

    thyssenkrupp opened a further automotive components plant in Hungary. A new production site for chassis and powertrain components has been built in Jászfényszaru, 70 kilometers east of Budapest, over the past months. It will produce electric power steering systems and valve train systems for German and international OEMs. thyssenkrupp invested around 100 million euros in the construction of the new plant complex. As production is ramped up, up to 500 new jobs will be created at the site in the coming months.

    “In recent years Hungary has developed into an important player for the European auto industry. Last year alone some 480,000 cars rolled off the country’s production lines. Our customers are investing in new plants, and we are also looking to continue our profitable growth in Hungary. Our focus is on high-tech products such as electric steering systems and components for highly efficient internal combustion engines and electric motors,” says Karsten Kroos, CEO of thyssenkrupp’s Components Technology business area. A further plant for springs and stabilizers is currently being built in Hungary and is scheduled to start production later this year. New customer orders make the expansion of production capacities in Hungary necessary. Thus thyssenkrupp continues its profitable growth strategy in the components business. The division increased its order intake by 14 percent last fiscal year.

    thyssenkrupp’s new plant in Jászfényszaru is the company’s first in Europe to locate two different product technologies at the same site. Combining the activities will allow efficiency and cost advantages to be utilized. thyssenkrupp has already launched such combined sites successfully in China and North America in recent years.

    thyssenkrupp currently operates an axle assembly plant and a steel service center in Győr for automotive customers in Hungary. The company also has a software development center in Budapest creating software products for electric power steering systems and new applications for steer-by-wire and autonomous driving solutions. Overall thyssenkrupp currently employs around 1,100 people in the automotive industry in Hungary.

  • Jászság “Roadshow”

    In April of this year, we organised industry presentations at two Jászság vocational secondary schools, in Jászberény on 19 April and Szolnok on 20 April where, amongst other things, we promoted our vocational training course (to be launched on September 2017) to graduating students. Our colleagues gave the students interactive presentations on our developments, as well as on the products that the company will be manufacturing at the Jászfényszaru plant. Following the presentation, our local HR administrator communicated the details of the training that is to begin in September.

    The educational workshop awaits the automation technicians of the future at the Entrepreneurial House of the Jászfényszaru Industrial Park, where two groups of 12 students each will be given the opportunity to acquire practical skills from a mentor. Students who adequately master the course material will be offered jobs at our plant, while the most successful students will get to go on an incentive trip to our company’s German or Lichtenstein site, where they will visit the local plant and get to know the students of the local training workshop. In addition, all students will have the opportunity to visit our Budapest competence centre, where they will have the chance to familiarise themselves with development processes.