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03/10/2016

Best employers in 2015: FOCUS magazine special counts KHS among top five German machine and system manufacturers

According to a best employers special in FOCUS the KHS Group is one of the top five machine and system manufacturers in Germany.

• High level of employee satisfaction confirmed throughout the entire group
• Best employer nationwide for filling and packaging systems
• Independent magazine survey places KHS in first place among the machine and system manufacturers of North Rhine-Westphalia

Dortmund, March 10, 2016 – According to a best employers special in FOCUS the KHS Group is one of the top five machine and system manufacturers in Germany. The survey sought out the most attractive employers among medium-sized and large companies in 22 branches of industry. The report reveals that KHS is the best company in its sector based in North Rhine-Westphalia and is also one of the top 100 concerns in the overall ranking. Each year BurdaNews GmbH elects Germany's best employers in a special edition of FOCUS magazine. According to the publisher the rating is based on objective, journalistic criteria and assessment by personnel within and outside the company. The KHS Group is thus in the best company; well-known system manufacturers such as Trumpf and Bosch are also among the top five. Rolf Staab, head of the Central Human Resources Division at KHS, considers the accolade to be proof of a high degree of employee satisfaction. "We work for a good corporate culture every single day and give our employees many ways of making their contribution to KHS, helping them to feel at ease here." The systems provider manufactures filling and packaging systems for the beverage, food and non-food industries. No other company was given a better FOCUS ranking in this field. The award goes to the entire KHS Group with its German production sites in Dortmund, Bad Kreuznach, Worms, Kleve and Hamburg. The company already won the Top 100 seal for innovation management in the middle of 2015, presented at the German SME Summit [Deutscher Mittelstands-Summit]. This makes KHS one of the top 100 innovators among SMEs in Germany. KHS believes it is very important to create a climate within the company which encourages innovation. Certain groups of employees, for instance, are able to use 10% of their work time to develop their own ideas. Inventor compensation and premiums act as additional incentives and encourage personnel to make diverse suggestions for improvements and innovations. New methods, such as an internal crowdsourcing system, promote the joy of invention. The many topics covered by KHS campus, the further training platform for KHS employees, include personnel development courses on various innovation skills, such as seminars on creativity techniques and methodological skills. About the KHS Group The KHS Group is one of the leading manufacturers of filling and packaging systems for the beverage, food and non-food industries. The KHS Group includes the following companies, among others: KHS GmbH, KHS Corpoplast GmbH, KHS Plasmax GmbH and NMP Systems GmbH. KHS GmbH manufactures modern filling and packaging systems at its headquarters in Dortmund, Germany, and in Kleve, Bad Kreuznach and Worms. The KHS Group's PET expertise is pooled at KHS Corpoplast and KHS Plasmax in Hamburg, Germany, where light PET packaging and innovative coating systems are developed and produced. NMP Systems GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of KHS GmbH based in Düsseldorf in Germany, designs and markets new, resource-saving packaging systems for PET bottles. The group has an international production and service network with over 4,600 employees. In 2015 KHS was awarded the Top 100 seal of approval for exceptional innovative power and outstanding innovative success among German SMEs. In 2014 the group achieved a turnover of €1.08 billion, The companies in the KHS Group are 100% subsidiaries of the MDAX-listed Salzgitter AG corporation.