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Buchen Group opens training centre in Schwedt, Brandenburg (26.09.2008)

  

In the competition for competent skilled workers and clever minds, the Buchen Group is bundling its existing training competencies together at a central location. In Schwedt, Brandenburg, Franz-Josef Englisch, Managing Director of Buchen UmweltService GmbH, has now opened a new training centre. At the location of Buchen Raffinerie Service GmbH, the market leader in the area of industrial services from Cologne, in future will train skilled workers for pipeline, drain and industrial services on the premises of PCK Rafinnerie. With the new training centre, the Buchen Group will secure its growing requirements of competent, qualified, well-trained employees, who are increasingly becoming the decisive competition factor.

“The Buchen Group is expanding and will continue to expand”, says Englisch, emphasizing the background to the investment of around 100,000 Euro in Schwedt. “Precondition for us being able to provide our services are highly-specialized employees”. In the modern training centre currently 17 young men, twelve from Schwedt and the surrounding region, three from the
  Merseburg and two from the Cologne area, will receive their basic theoretical and practical training in the next 15 months. The apprentices, aged between 17 and 22, will spend the practical, vocationally-orientated part of their training at various locations of the Buchen Group in Germany. In future, 20 trainees per year will be trained as skilled workers for pipeline, drain and
Managing Director of Buchen UmweltService GmbH
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industrial services.

Buchen Group supports structurally-weak region
Take-over promise to apprentices

“After I had received the firm promise of vocational training in Schwedt, I was lost for words – with joy”, reports Alexander Zieroth. The 18-year-old from Berkholz is delighted about the possibility of being able to complete a high-quality vocational training near to his home. After all, it is not easy to get a place as an apprentice in the Uckermark region. In addition, Zieroth can be sure, according to Franz-Josef Englisch, that the Buchen Group will also provide jobs for all its apprentices following their successful training. Zieroth’s delight was also shared by Schwedt’s Mayor, Jürgen Polzehl, on the occasion of the official opening of the training centre. “With this centre, the Buchen Group is investing in people and in the future of this region”, said Polzehl.
  The IHK East Brandenburg (Chamber of Industry and Commerce) also wel-comed the engagement of the Buchen Group in Schwedt. Dr. Klaus Niemann, Managing Director of PCK Raffinerie and Vice-president of the IHK East Brandenburg, approved the training project from the start: “Companies must increasingly take care of skilled workers and invest in training”, emphasized Niemann, “Because then people will also stay in the region”. PCK Raffinerie, on whose premises the new centre has been established, actively supports the Buchen Group’s training centre. For exam-ple, the company offers the apprentices access to the works canteen, participation in courses of
 

the works fire service as well as many op-portunities to gain practical experience.

State Ministry of Education and the town of Schwedt make investment in the future possible

The start of central training was actually only for planned in 2009. Thanks to the good cooperation and the support of the town of Schwedt, PCK Rafinnerie as well as the State Ministry of Education in Potsdam, the new training centre was able to already open its doors one year earlier than planned. “With the training centre, Buchen Group is not least countering the process of demographic change and the declining numbers of pupils associated with it”, emphasizes Managing Director Englisch. The interna-tionally-operating service company decided on the location of Schwedt on the basis of the outstanding cooperation with PCK Raffinerie GmbH and the very good vocational school in the region. Following approval by the State Ministry, a separate class at a vocational school was formed specifically for this branch of vocational training.

 

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