TPT January 2024

INDUSTRY

Sikora named one of the top medium-sized businesses to work for in 2024

importance to working together in an appreciative manner and to making the working conditions at Sikora as attractive as possible.” Sikora AG employs around 400 people in Bremen, Germany and at its 13 international subsidiaries. In addition to its own company restaurant and company health management with massages and yoga classes, the company offers many benefits such as flexible working hours, capital forming benefits, individual training opportunities and regular employee events to promote exchanging and getting to know each other.

SIKORA has been named as one of the top employers in the medium-sized business sector 2024. It ranked seventh in the area of electronics, according to Focus-Business and its research partner, FactField GmbH. The view of 650,000 employee were evaluated from the results of an online survey and existing online evaluations of employers were analysed from 36,000 companies. Companies with at least one location in Germany sized between 11 and 500 employees and with an average rating of at least 3.5 out of 5 were taken into account. The final ranking of the companies resulted from the rating average and the number of ratings depending on the number of employees. Around 4,000 employers with the best scores across all groups were included in the final ranking. “The numerous positive evaluations of our company fill us with pride,” said Holger Lieder, executive board at Sikora. “Only with highly motivated employees, who feel comfortable in their working environment, we can distinguish ourselves from other companies and be successful on the market in the long run. Therefore, we also attach great

Holger Lieder, executive board at Sikora AG, with the award certificate

At the ‘creative deck’ on the top floor of the production building, employees find new working environments with numerous creative areas, quiet workplaces and extended meeting rooms.

Sikora AG www.sikora.net

New work environments in the ‘creative deck ’

Metal trade fairs celebrate second successful tube and wire event in Thailand

came to Bangkok to find out about industry trends at all four trade fairs and to expand their business relationships. The visitors were manufacturers, buyers and suppliers from the wire, cable, tube, foundry and metallurgy industries, as well as from the automotive, oil & gas, construction, energy, building and electrical industries. Wire and Tube Southeast Asia will once again be held in Bangkok, Thailand from 17-19 September 2025.

industries. Over 80 per cent of the 245 exhibiting companies were international. Wire Southeast Asia showcased machinery and equipment for wire production, wire processing and wire finishing, accessories, measuring, control and testing technology as well as new and further developed special wires and cables. Machines and technologies from the fields of tube manufacturing, tube processing and tube finishing complete the range of products at Tube Southeast Asia. Around 7,400 trade fair visitors, around 30 per cent of them international,

MORE than 400 exhibitors from 30 countries presented their technological highlights at the leading regional trade fairs for the tube, wire and cable industries – wire and Tube Southeast Asia. The event took place for the second time together with GIFA Southeast Asia and METEC Southeast Asia at BITEC in Bangkok from 20-22 September 2023. Joint participations from six countries complemented the line-up with their national pavilions. Wire and tube Southeast Asia are regarded in Thailand as leading regional information and trade platforms for their

Tube Southeast Asia www.tube-southeastasia.com

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