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08.05.2019

STILL strengthens core competences through further investments in training

The new training centre of STILL, the intralogistics specialist, was inaugurated in Fürth on 7th May 2019.

Fürth and Hamburg, 8th May 2019 – The new training centre of STILL, the intralogistics specialist, was inaugurated in Fürth on 7th May 2019. On a total usable floor area of 475 m2, STILL trainers offer future talented staff the optimum framework conditions for soundly-based training. As an employer with future promise, the company sets another milestone by converting the building of the STILL branch in Fürth into a training centre. From now on – in addition to the training centre at the parent company’s headquarters in Hamburg – there is now a second central place of learning here where trainee mechatronics engineers from the whole of Germany in their advanced years of training congregate to jointly complete modular practical seminars specific to intralogistics. Several months of rebuilding time have created modern teaching rooms with an attached mechatronics workshop. This building, whose façade design reflects the STILL Corporate Design, allows a perfect combination of theoretical contents and practical work.

The Fürth Training Centre’s modern, light-flooded rooms offer perfect framework conditions for product-specific training modules for trainee mechatronic engineers aiming at a career as a service technician. Until now, trainees completed these training units decentrally in STILL subsidiaries throughout the whole of the Federal Republic of Germany. The centralisation that has now been accomplished at the Fürth training site releases synergies and strengthens both cohesion and the high quality of training for all locations. In this way, STILL once again satisfies an important criterion to which the new generation of employees pays attention when choosing their preferred employer.

STILL has always given high priority to soundly-based training fit for the future. For example, the intralogistics specialist doubled training capacities in its subsidiaries throughout the Federal Republic in the past two years. 100 new trainees are currently passing through the training phase of their profession as mechatronics engineers. Those responsible are confident that training is not only a social responsibility but also the most efficient strategy against a scarcity of skilled labour. The company will continue to expand its training capacities in the mechatronics area throughout the Federal Republic in the next few years. This will not only compensate for natural workforce turnover but will also take into account the rising demand for skilled staff, especially mechatronics engineers. Against this background, the new training centre is an integral part of the long-term training strategy of STILL.

Axel Fiene, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, STILL Group, stresses that "The purpose of our new training centre is to enlarge our worldwide leading position in our core competences. This building is an investment in the future for us, and an affirmation of the Fürth location." Marc Lehnstaedt, Senior Vice President, DACH Region, adds: "By expanding our training capacities, we actively counteract both the lack of skilled staff and demographic change. Ultimately, it’s mainly talented young recruits who will shape our competence to provide technological solutions for our future customers. That’s why investments in our vocational training have topmost priority for STILL." The required contents of training courses have developed considerably in the past few years. Technical professions such as mechatronic engineer are demanding, and need extensive technical resources to provide training. The teaching and learning concept also faces trainers with quite new, all-embracing training contents and innovations. That’s why there will be a full-time trainer and a dedicated training area in every STILL principal branch in the future.

STILL is currently qualifying more than 200 trainees in various trained technical and commercial professions and in dual system study courses throughout the Federal Republic. Dr. Henry Puhl, Chairman of the Executive Board of STILL, stresses that "Professional job training is a decisive factor for the competitiveness of our company and of the intralogistics sector of industry. With the new training centre, STILL is investing in an innovative professional training and in the future of young persons," and adds: "We are aware that challenges in the labour market are intensifying. The subjects of digitalisation and Industry 4.0 are not the only factors that will change the labour market and have a long-term effect on it. The importance of human value-oriented competences such as customer orientation and willingness to perform is also growing. Our new training centre offers our trainees optimum framework conditions to enable them to master both the current and future challenges in the modern world of work."