TPT September 2024

DIARY OF EVENTS

Otto Junker celebrates its 100 th anniversary in business

2024

SINCE its foundation in 1924, Otto Junker has made a name for itself as a pioneer in building equipment for foundries as well as for rolling mills and pressworks. It plays a leading role as an international furnace manufacturer and system supplier for metallurgical processes and the refining of metals. This year, the company celebrates its 100-year anniversary and looks back at a time of technological and entrepreneurial milestones, including major contributions to a sustainable industry. Several thousand industrial furnaces made by Otto Junker are in operation all over the world. These are required wherever there is a demand for high quality castings and forgings as well as semi-finished products such as slabs, plates, sheets, strips, foils, billets, rods, profiles, wires and tubes of all kinds of metal. Otto Junker plants are used for melting, pouring and heat treatment of metallic materials. Over the years, the company has not only maintained its position as technological market leader but even expanded it. 100 years ago, Otto Junker founded his company in Lammersdorf in the Eifel region of Germany and specialised in metal processing. His aim was the marketing of the water-cooled mould for the production of brass rolling plates, an invention by his father, Andreas Junker. The committed company founder worked hard for the expansion of the company and the development of new machines and equipment. In doing so, he built up a close relationship with the Technical University of Aachen, which was and still is founded upon the principle that a continuous technical development is indispensable for the success of a company. Since 1982, after the death of Otto Junker, Otto Junker has been owned by the Otto Junker foundation, which supports the education of young engineers and promotes research projects at the Technical University of Aachen. The cooperation has led to numerous technological breakthroughs and has helped to maintain the technological leadership of the company. The challenges to industrial furnace building have evolved. Apart from meeting exactly specified process

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parameters and the ongoing increase in capacity and reliability, today’s main focus is on questions of energy efficiency. This has become an integral part of everyday work and continuously pushes on the innovative spirit of the entire Otto Junker group of companies. “The capability to adapt to market requirements continuously and quickly – both from a technical and organisational point of view – remains an important success factor for us. This is guaranteed by the technical competence and flexibility of our employees, which is what characterises our company,” said Erik Míček, CEO of Otto Junker. “Our focus is not only on dealing with the challenges faced by customers, but also on contributing to an environmentally friendly industry in a pro-active manner. The next 100 years will be characterised by our pursuit to continuously redefine the boundaries of what is technically possible,” Mr Míček added. The pronounced innovative strength of Otto Junker has led to it also offering competent solutions with regard to sustainability outside of the metal industry. In cooperation with the Technical University of Aachen, industrial partners and with support from the German government, innovative energy storage and recovery technologies have been developed. These plants make a significant contribution to increasing the share of cost-effective, regenerative energy for providing industrial process heat and decoupling the processes from the volatility of regenerative power generation by wind and solar energy. “We are proud of this milestone. For 100 years we have been spurred on by the passion for equipment building and by the commitment to provide machinery for foundries, rolling mills and pressworks,” said Sabine Höfer, Otto Junker CFO.

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