DE HEGER GROUP PRODUCTS INNOVATION COMPLIANCE PEOPLE & WORK CONTACT Heger group with significant growth 23rd November 2015 This wind power rotor hub weighs 30 tons, in the foreground HegerFerrit managing director Uwe Bergheimer Enkenbach-Alsenborn. The Heger Group achieved 9 percent more sales in the first half of 2014 compared to the same period in the previous year and expects sales for the year as a whole to exceed the 50 million euro mark for the first time. The group’s operating profit (EBIT) in the first half of the year was 10.5 percent above the EBIT for the first six months of the previous year, said the group’s managing partner, Johannes Heger. Both foundries in the group expect further growth for the second half of the year and for the 2015 financial year. Even if the German mechanical engineering industry stagnates, the Heger Group expects further growth through the strong competitive position, said Heger. In the past 2013 financial year, the Heger group achieved a turnover of 47 million euros, about as much as in the previous year. Heger Guss GmbH in Enkenbach in the Kaiserslautern district, which belongs to the Heger Group, is repositioning itself through top performance, says Johannes Heger. At Heger Guss, with a length of four meters and a weight of 13 tons, the largest and heaviest engine block in the company's 112-year history was cast. The V-16 engine built from it is a prototype with a great future. The diesel engine, which Heger Guss will now manufacture in series, will be used for stationary power generation, announced Johannes Heger. The special foundry Heger Ferrit, founded four years ago in neighboring Sembach (also in the Kaiserslautern district), cast a wind power rotor hub with a unit weight of 30 tons. So far, the maximum unit weight in the special foundry has been 15 tons, says Heger. A cast of 30 tons has not yet taken place in the Palatinate. Since the opening of Heger Ferrite, a total of 54,000 tons of cast has been sold with total proceeds of 103 million euros. Heger Ferrite now supplies the three largest wind turbine manufacturers in Europe and also delivers engine blocks for diesel locomotives directly to the USA. "We can only be successful through specialization and simultaneous globalization," says Johannes Heger. The Heger Group currently has 270 employees - including 30 women in management positions, administration, logistics and production, according to Johannes Heger. The company has thus created 90 jobs in the past five years. Source edition: No. 195 Die Rheinpfalz - Palatinate People's Newspaper - HEGER GROUP Locations Milestones social commitment Press PRODUCTS Products Product quality INNOVATION COMPLIANCE Our values Corporate policy Standards & certificates PEOPLE & WORK Career education CONTACT Address & directions contact form IMPRINT DATA PROTECTION GENERAL CONDITIONS OF PURCHASE TERMS OF DELIVERY AND PAYMENT Donnersbergstrasse 48 • 67677 Enkenbach-Alsenborn Fon +49 6303 803-0 • Fax +49 6303 803-211 • info@heger-gruppe.de