Energy-efficient building Huf Haus

Bauce presents the revolutionary new machine for pressing the wet blue skins with 5 pressing cylinder model BLUESTAR VERSUS.

New pressing system of Wet Blue belly to belly, ideal for full thickness leathers and splitting in lime leathers. Designed and patented on the basis of careful research in particulars and on 45 years of experience in the tanning industry, this machine has been designed keeping in mind during the design phase of the following characteristics dictated by the most modern and advanced tanning industry: • Sturdiness and reliability • Drying power • Pressying system with double calender • Quick maintenance • Easy to use

New system with double blade cylinders to work the leathers in: • belly to belly mode, butt to neck mode and belly to belly mode for leathers with hump

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BAUCE TRI.MA s.r.l. Via del Lavoro, 27 - 36070 TRISSINO (VI) TEL. 0445-490740 - FAX 0445-490068 Codice Fiscale / Partita IVA 02171330240 Registro Imprese Vicenza n. 25649 R.E.A. VI n. 211871 - Mecc. n. VI 010962 http://www.bauce.com - e-mail: info-line@bauce.com Centralpelli S.r.l is an exporting company of raw hides and wet blue skins. The company is a family operated business dealing with hides from Northern industrialised meatworks. This trade has been carried through three generations of family, dealing with knowledge to its clients. There is no middle man, you deal directly with the company. Centralpelli S.r.l processes hides from various weight ranges on a monthly bases approximately 20.000/25.000 pieces categories.

The company processing plant is a large exporter to all areas of Europe and Asia. Part of the company’s production is converting raw salted hides into wet blue tanning, capable of supplying wet blue full stage hides on a continuous monthly basis. Our monitoring process incorporates hand salting, grading and packaging operations in the Tuscany region of Italy.

We deal with Northern-Italian hides as they have a high calibre in quality combined with excellent grain selection. We ensure customer satisfaction, placing Centralpelli S.r.l as one of the best in the industry to deal with. Our method of conservation is firstly by de-fleshing, trimming and then salting the hides. The hides are then categorised and sorted into weight and grade category.

Our hides are carefully and methodically selected and individually divided per piece. Centralpelli S.r.l is concerned with quality, security in dealings and customer satisfaction. That is why first rate product is guaranteed on time, every time.

Any further enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact Mr. Rosario Stellitano, Managing Director for Centralpelli S.r.l.

Tel: +39/0571/478279 Fax: +39/0571/470821/478280 Mobile: +39/335-5215384 E-mail: rosario.stellitano@gmail.com Skype: rosario7322

aircraft leather and is manufactured using an environmentally-friendly tanning process that does not require the use of chromium. Lufthansa is scheduled to receive more than 32,000 aircraft seats equipped with this new ‘Styrian’ leather and Austrian Airlines are taking 4,600 units. Compared to the seats currently in use, the conversion will reduce the total weight of all the aircraft in the programme – more than 200 – by some 60 tonnes.

“The airline industry is very enthusiastic about our new lightweight leather,”says Mr Kindermann, “which is not surprising since a weight saving of around 3 kg per seat means big fuel savings in a 200 seat plane. And, of course, if the engines use less fuel they also emit less CO2. A further gain is that the lightweight construction of the new seats increases the capacity per aircraft by, on average, one row of seats. That means that Lufthansa, for example, can offer 2000 additional seats. To do that with conventional seats they would have to buy 12 more Airbus A320 planes.”

Wollsdorf’s commitment to the highest quality secures its leading position in the market for premium leather for steering wheels but it also sees great opportunities for growth beyond the premium sector. “We supply standard leather for OEMs such as Ford and GM, particularly in North America, and although we have a smaller market share in this sector it is a very large market and we see plenty of opportunities for expansionthere,” says Andreas Kindermann. “We are also entering the market for split leather – leather that is made from the inner layers of the hide – which is often used for steering wheels on popular smaller cars from VW, Opel, Fiat, PSA etc. This is a fastgrowing market right across the world and, especially, of course, in China.

“In China and across Asia the airline industry is also growing at a remarkable rate, with record numbers of new aircraft being ordered every year. So we see excellent prospects for our aircraft seat leather business around the world and our plant in China is ready to serve both the automotive and the aviation industries there as they continue their spectacular expansion.” n

ENERGYEFFICIENT BUILDING

The German construction company Huf Haus builds luxurious prefabricated homes. It has become wellknown for its innovative architecture with a unique symbiosis of glass and wood. Marco Siebel spoke to the sales and marketing director, Michael Baumann, about the company’s environmentally sound building techniques and its expansion outside Europe.

IN 1912 the German carpenter Johann Huf opened his shop in Hartenfels between Cologne and Frankfurt am Main. His grandson Georg Huf today runs the company that builds the highly recognisable sustainable timber Huf Houses all over the world.

Huf Haus has 18 offices and one production site, from which some 470 employees have completed more than 10,000 building projects.

Huf Haus started out as a sawmill and became renowned for its quality throughout the region, following which it started developing pre-manufactured timber structures and turnkey buildings. In 1958, Huf Haus became internationally known for its assembly of the pavilions for Germany and Saudi Arabia at the Brussels World Exhibition.

Today, Huf houses can be found anywhere on the planet, from the UK to China, from Paris to St Petersburg. To better cater for customers’ needs, the company founded the auxiliary companies dealing with gardens and landscape architecture (GartenART), rendering and painting (MalerART), and the bespoke furniture company StilART.

A hidden champion

Huf Haus has been listed as a ‘hidden champion’ by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hermann Simon, a German author and businessman that leads a team of experts in strategy, marketing and pricing. The team has authored numerous books and articles on hidden champions – companies that are often family-owned, relatively small in size, highly successful on both national and international markets, yet unknown to the wider public.

Hidden champions are ranked top in the world and normally work in small niche markets. For these markets they design unique products, which are produced with a high real net output ratio. One result of working with unique products in small niche markets is quite often the need to deal on the global market.

Hidden champions also operate extremely close to their customers, and their customers’ needs are an important driver for their innovations. Their high real net output ratio is often achieved by working using proprietary processes which make it hard for competitors to imitate their products. It also seems to be evident that to maintain market leadership hidden champions do business on their own. Even sales in countries abroad are often organised from the parent company base.

The corporate culture of hidden champions is distinctive. Their values are conservative: hard work, strict selection, intolerance