Worms (Germany), June 26, 2006 – Röchling Automotive Worms KG has commenced construction work on a new welfare building at its Flosshafenstrasse factory premises. The first floor will include 250 square meters of showers and changing room facilities for employees. Access to the building and the factory will be via a manned gatehouse.
The company is investing more than EUR 1 million in the new three-story building designed by Worms architects Uderstadt & Partner. Osthofen construction company Wilhelm & Karl-Walter Berkes are building it.
“We have long planned the new welfare building, and after repeated postponements we are now delighted that we will be able to take the new facility into service at the year’s end,” said Röchling Automotive general manager Ulrich Mauß. Planning and equipment of the new building were geared mainly to employees’ needs, he said, but the welfare building, which is scheduled for completion in November 2006, is architecturally attractive too.
The Röchling Group’s data processing department will use the second floor, while the third floor will house offices and conference rooms.
The Röchling Group operates worldwide, with around 6,000 employees at 51 locations in 16 countries, and stands for proficiency in plastics. In 2005, Group sales revenues totaled EUR 1.15 billion. The Automotive Plastics division comprises Röchling Group companies that are automotive suppliers. Röchling Automotive manufactures superior products made of polymer materials and natural fiber plastic composites for under the hood, the underbody and the car interior. In 2005, Röchling Automotive sales amounted to EUR 536 Million.
