Archive → September, 2009
“one-stop-shop” conveyor belt
Rema Tip Top South Africa, a leading conveyor belt maintenance provider, is linking up with Dunlop Belting, a manufacturer of heavy duty conveyor belts, to form a strategic alliance. This co-operation, according to Thorsten Wach, the company’s Managing Director, will “bring together two power houses within the rubber industry, where both partners are able to offer the best quality in service and technologies in the supply, installation, operation and maintenance of belting operations. Our customers have, in the past, expressed a need for a one-stop-shop system for the management of their requirements on site, essentially requesting one point of contact for an entire project.” The expertise and resources of both companies will, according to Rema, be used in order to implement new systems and best practices in the total cost of ownership (TCO) in South and Sub Saharan Africa.
China Conveyor belt sushi
China Conveyor belt sushi, also called sushi train (as the sushi goes around a track like a train) is a sushi restaurant where the plates with the sushi are placed on a rotating conveyor belt that winds through the restaurant and moves past every table or counter seat. Customers may make orders, but most simply pick their selections from a steady stream of fresh sushi moving along the conveyor belt.
Sushi is my children’s favorite food (sometimes I think probably that’s why they feel acceptable for migrating to Japan). This Saturday we went to the father of conveyor belt sushi restaurant – Genroku located in Osaka, Japan.
Conveyor belt sushi was invented by Yoshiaki Shiraishi (1914-2001), who had difficulties managing the restaurant by him. He got the idea after watching beer bottles on a conveyor belt in an Asahi brewery. After five years of development, China Wholesale opened the first conveyor belt sushi Mawaru Genroku Sushi in Osaka in 1958, quickly creating chain restaurants all over Japan.China Travel
The ContiTech Conveyor Belt Group steps up its stake in Eastern Europe
The ContiTech Conveyor Belt Group, Northeim, has purchased the Serbian conveyor belt company Univerzal Kolubara d.o.o. The acquisition was concluded on April 6, 2009. “This is an important building block in our strategy of establishing a firmer foothold on the Eastern European market. At the same time it guarantees us a stable base for expanding business outside the automotive industry,” noted Heinz-Gerhard Wente, member of the ContiTech AG Executive Board, after the agreement was signed. Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Veliki Crljeni, to the south of Belgrade, the company, which makes conveyor belts for the local market, currently employs 250. The purchase price was in the one-digit million euro range.
ContiTech intends to invest in production at the location to meet the demand for conveyor belts. “This plant gives us an excellent base in a region rich in lignite coal. Following the purchase of Matador in Slovakia, the merger with Kolubara provides us the wherewithal to be successful in Eastern Europe,” says Hans-Jürgen Duensing, head of the ContiTech Conveyor Belt Group business unit.
Serbia is renowned for its enormous lignite deposits, found in seams measuring up to 50 m. Much of the country’s power generation relies on plants fired by domestic coal. This explains why a large number of leading energy companies is interested in beefing up their involvement in the country.
The Conveyor Belt Group reported consolidated sales of €469 million in 2008. It currently has a workforce of around 3,000 worldwide.
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