Lüdenscheid plastics institute
The Kunststoff-Institut Lüdenscheid , with its full name Kunststoff-Institut für die Mittelstandische Wirtschaft NRW GmbH (KIMW), is a private service company for the entire field of plastics technology . It was founded in 1988 by 30 companies from plastics-related industries in cooperation with the city of Lüdenscheid and the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences (then Iserlohn University of Applied Sciences). The institute is connected to the university of applied sciences as an affiliated institute. The institute itself is located in the Grünewald district and is directly adjacent to the city center and Knapp districts .
The shareholders of the GmbH are a sponsoring association with 76% and the city of Lüdenscheid with 24%. The sponsoring association has over "220 member companies from Germany, Europe and overseas" (according to the KIMW, as of 07/2014). Representatives of the sponsoring association and the city of Lüdenscheid are represented on the supervisory board of the GmbH, while only company representatives from the sponsoring association are represented on the technical advisory board.
The entire company is certified according to ISO 9001 and the laboratory is accredited according to DIN EN ISO / IEC 17025
tasks
The Kunststoff-Institut supports its clients in the selection, development, optimization and implementation of products, tools and processes in the entire field of plastics technology. In addition to joint and development projects, companies have a wide range of services available to solve company-specific tasks. In the business areas, the following fields of innovation are extensively worked on in service and research and development:
- Strategic market development
- Application technology / process integration
- Tool / coating technology
- Test / analysis technology
- Products / licenses
- Initial and continuing education
- Materials technology / new materials
- Surface technology molded parts
Planning
2013
On January 16, 2013, the Lüdenscheid Plastics Institute invited the US Consul General and the NRW State Secretary for a visit. During a tour and discussions, plans were presented that a new “Polymer Training Center” should be built. It should function like a boarding school and be able to offer regional and national training courses. The new “Polymer Training Center” will have around 100 to 150 places. The former Piepenstock area below the institute, which was bought years ago and is currently used as a parking lot, is available as a building site.
On April 12, 2013, another report appeared in the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten that the new “Polymer Training Center” should be built by 2015 at the latest. The still existing paint shop on Lutherstrasse is to be completely demolished for this purpose. The new "Polymer Training Center" is very much welcomed by the planning politicians, as it is also intended to be a new component of the think tank in Lüdenscheid. The new "Polymer Training Center" is supposed to become a boarding school-like training center for young technical talent. For the design of the area around the already existing Lüdenscheid Plastics Institute (KIMW), there will also be an ideas competition. It should give a lot of impulses for the appearance of the boarding school, but also for the whole area between Karolinenstrasse, Lutherstrasse and Bahnhofsstrasse. The participating offices should therefore be selected by mid-May 2013. It is also expected that the institute will be followed by other companies to the location, which is almost entirely planned - including the parking lot on Bahnhofstrasse and Karolinenstrasse, as well as many areas behind. With the boarding school, the KIMW wants to attract young talent for its member companies. Machine setters or designers, also from small and medium-sized companies, could complete longer courses here. Dropouts from vocational training or FH courses also received new opportunities through comparable qualifications. The branch is thus training young plastics technicians itself.
2015
In mid-January 2015, the Lüdenscheid plastics institute received a funding notification for 2.8 million euros from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The decision enables the “Polymer Training Center” (PTC) to be built next to the Lüdenscheid Plastics Institute. According to a newspaper article, the PTC should break new ground in imparting knowledge, providing initial training and further education. It is also aimed at dropouts and long-serving company employees who - without a degree - have to reorient themselves.
The new five-story building is expected to cost around 5.2 million euros and provide 1,857 square meters of usable space. 56 office workplaces, two machine training rooms, two training and four meeting rooms and a large conference room are to be created in the building. The concept should also include a boarding school for schoolchildren, students from Germany and abroad as well as skilled workers during their training. This concept aims to attract new skilled workers to the region and to counteract the shortage of skilled workers in the area.
See also
Institute for Forming Technology Lüdenscheid
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of January 17, 2013: "Plastics Institute establishes and expands US contacts"
- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of April 12, 2013: "Boarding school for young technicians"
- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of January 16, 2015: "Land invests in the future of plastics"
- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of January 16, 2015: "Land invests in the future of plastics"
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