HDD Technologies

„HDD Technologies GmbH“ produces Racks and Modules for Electronic Systems

BREMEN · Premium electronic devices, for example on a train or an airplane, have to be installed in a practicable way. „HDD“ designs and produces cases for such systems, which are often built of diverse circuit boards and cables. Surface treated frontpanels with printed logos and labelling assure a precious appearance.

The „HDD“-heads of business Hüseyin Erdinç (c.) and Dietmar Borschewski (r.) and their production supervisor Volker Scholz

Frontpanels, control panels, technical cases, 19-Inch-racks and mounting brackets fo elektronic systems are designed, produced and packaged in house. The customers want to mount their electronic components securely and safe behind aluminium or steel: network- or switching systems from the telecommunications-, the medical engineering- or the aviation industry. Small batch- and midsize batch series form the largest part of the production at „HDD“, but individual or custom products are also being realized. „We have a large in-house production depth, from design over mechanical processing to assembly and packaging“, says executive director Dietmar Borschewski, who is also proprietor together with Hüseyin Erdinç.

Borschewski and Erdinç took over the company with another colleague by a Management-Buy-Out in 2002 and formed the „HDD Technologies GmbH“ . „For some of the colleagues it wasn't easy to accept us as their new heads of business“, illustrates Erdinç. „At the same time we had to think entrepeneurial and had to make no differences between our colleagues.“ But this phase of learning is completed after eight years of leadership. The number of employees has risen by two thirds sinc the Buy-Out.

The roots of the company go back to the year 1961 when the former „Vero“ was found. Borschewski und Erdinç want to follow up this company. In 1979 "Vero" was taken over by british „BICC.plc“ group. Ten years later the group was sold in a Management-Buy-Out by employees and grew into an international operating business based in Great Britain. In 1994 „BICC Vero“ went to be „Vero Electronics GmbH“. In 1998 the U.S.-based APW-Group „Vero Electronics“ took lead of the business. From the partial Buy-Out of „Vero“ in 2002 arose the company „HDD Technologies“. In 2005 products and rights owned by APW were handed to „HDD Technologies“.

Today „HDD“ employs 65 employees in Bremen-Arsten. The economic crisis has been endured with short-time work, so no employee lost his job. With new employees having been appointed this year in combination with the investment in machinery in 2009 for 600 000 Euros the busininess is now able to „give full throttle“. Orders from german customers make 70% of the business, the rest from European countries, the USA and Canada.

In November this year „HDD“ was visited by Bremen's mayor Jens Böhrnsen (SPD) . He honoured „HDD Technologies“ as example for the good integration of workers from many different countries. Not only having an owner and Head-of-Business with roots in Turkey, there are also a large number of employees from diverse cultures. Erdinç is used to being pronounced wrong by his customers from Germany (the"ç" in his name is not pronounced like a "k" but a typical german "dsch"). But this is not a problem for him as he points out.

Article from: Ilka Langkowski
Ref.: www.kreiszeitung.de