Business model
Preamble
With their establishment at the location Duisburg Huckingen, Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann developed a model, which considerably promoted the successful development of the enterprise. The messages of the model offered both orientation and challenges at the same time for management, employees, customers, suppliers and other partners. HKM further developed this demanding model. It should set yardsticks for goals and co-operation, which makes further successes in the future possible and which strengthens the feeling of "us". We all are equally requested as management and employees to live the values of the HKM model.
The Management
Company targets
Only the best are successful
The basic strategy of HKM is: In competition we want to be leaders in quality and that means
high quality of our products and services,
constantly on schedule and
low costs.
In this way we will contribute directly to increasing the benefit for our customers. At the same time we will achieve a lasting and durable stabilization of our own competitive ability.
During the conversion of the basic strategy the consistent realization of innovations and the continuous improvement of our processes are substantial conditions. Our goal is to be better than our competitors.
The daily employment for our company targets helps to secure our attractive jobs. Success in reaching agreed upon goals creates business opportunities for the organization of HKM.
Competence
Every task is a challenge
HKM is a competent producer of input materials for pipes and flat steel products. With a fastidious and innovative product range of made to requirements steel grades our enterprise is a recognized and sort-after problem solver for its customers. By concentrating on the production stages from coke production to continuous casting, special efficiency is made possible for HKM. Plants with high productivity, the constant optimisation of the processes, as well as the rationalisation of logistic operational sequences permits us fast and flexible action as well as great economy.
Herein we see an important contribution to durably securing our lead in relation to our competition. Our success on the basis of competence ensures customer confidence and freedom of action for investment in employees, plant and quality. This secures freedom for HKM for economic and technological change. In our competence we compare with the best in the world.
Customers and partners
Create the future together
We want our customers to be permanently satisfied. We co-operate with them in partnerships in order to be able to enable achievements corresponding to real market conditions in the long term. We place our customers in the centre of our actions and work.
We supply our customer’s requirements on time as well as economically with input materials thereby considerably strengthening their competitive ability. We want to recognize the market requirements of our products promptly in order to be able to adjust ourselves in the context of our objectives.
Partnership charactorises the relationships in our environment. With our competent suppliers we aim for long-term business relations, which bring advantages to both partners. Just as we ourselves must be ready to constantly improve the quality of our own achievements, so must our suppliers. We expect fairness, openness, reliability and ethical responsibility in handling as well as economically favourable conditions with one another.
In the regional environment we place importance in a partnership relationship to our community. We follow our responsibilities as entrepreneurs and trainers.
Environment
Conscious of our responsibility
The protection of the environment and retaining the natural basis of life are substantial components of our managerial policy at HKM.
By taking good care of resources, decreasing emissions and the application of meaningful recycling procedures we ensure that productivity and economy are in agreement with active environmental protection.
By the adherence to regulations HKM is continuously improving its operational environmental protection and reducing its environmental impact by the employment of best and economically justifiable technologies for the well-being of people.
We see environmental protection as an holistic task of the enterprise and within the responsibility of each employee on the job. Therefore HKM promotes the competence and the environmental awareness of its employees by constant further training.
Beyond that we look for an open dialogue with customers, partner enterprises, authorities and the public in order to promote a mutual understanding and to deepen confidence in our actions.
Employees
Together we are good
Our enterprise lives from the readiness to perform and efficiency of its employees. This presupposes high competence and work satisfaction. Our employees identify themselves with the enterprise and their tasks. This is team-oriented and fulfilled with the readiness for the adoption of responsibility.
Our employees enjoy demanding jobs with free room for the development of their abilities and for personal advancement. Both secure to a considerable degree the success of the enterprise. The support and promotion of the qualifications of our employees are a substantial basis.
Our high-level management offer a model for their staff and lead by clear and co-ordinated goals.
They practice a cooperative style of leadership as well as the delegation of competence and responsibility. Communication with reciprocally open information is important to us. Our handling is based on honesty and reliability with each other as well as confidence of the integrity of the other.
Health protection and safety on the job are especially important to us. By close co-operation with management and staff we develop measures for the avoidance of accidents and health dangers.
A constructional co-operation with the representatives of the employees is natural for us.
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