As part of our company’s 60th anniversary, we are donating 2,000 euros this month to the support group to help purchase urgently needed new comforters and pillows.

Almost everyone who spent their childhood and youth in Altena has visited the City of Altena’s youth recreation center on the North Sea island of Juist at least once.

In times of tight municipal budgets, maintaining such a facility is no easy task. The city therefore relies on donations and the practical support of volunteers.

The camp itself is also celebrating a milestone this year. On July 1, it will have been 75 years since the facility was established. For generations of young people from Altena, the trip to Juist was and remains a defining childhood memory. And many who visited as children now return as counselors or parents.

Thomas Becker and Uwe Storm from the Friends of the Center are delighted with the symbolic check presented by Dominic Molitor and David Potrikus.

It has been two years since we at SIHK received the award for “Hidden Champion” and “Global Market Leader for Modular Forming Machine Concepts.” At the time, WDR television produced a wonderful report on the occasion. The video is still available in the media library, but it will be removed on June 20 after two years online.

So if you haven’t seen the film yet or would like to watch it again, now is your last chance. Here is the link to the WDR media library:

https://www1.wdr.de/lokalzeit/fernsehen/suedwestfalen/hidden-champion-schmale-in-altena-100.html

Three trade magazines have featured us in recent weeks.
An identical article about the largest forming system in our company’s history has appeared in the sister publications *blechnet* and *MM MaschinenMarkt*.
The trade journal *Der Schnitt- und Stanzwerkzeugbau* provided even more detailed coverage of this topic.
Many thanks to the editorial teams of these trade journals 🤗