New assembly hall expands output capacity

Lebus International Engineers GmbH has opened a second production hall at its premises in Finning, near Munich, in Germany. The 900 square-metre assembly hall increases production capacity by more than 30%.
Fitted with a 10-tonne capacity overhead crane, the new hall is being used for assembling spooling devices and compensators, and for mounting and bolting flanges to drums. It is also used for stocking cast drums and halfproduced parts. It frees up the main hall to be dedicated to machining and for expansion of the paint shop.
The new building also houses additional office space, washroom and canteen facilities and a lecture room for customer training events.
Adjacent land has also been purchased for future expansion.
Further investment in the business has also been made in new CNC machines and in management systems.
Approximately €100,000 has been invested in sophisticated Incoplan software from Incotec that manages the planning of all resources, scheduling, production and delivery.
Lebus's German operations are bucking the trend in the worldwide economic downturn, and is experiencing no slow down in workload. While slowdown in the global market for construction cranes has resulted in some postponements of high-volume/low-margin orders from tower crane and mobile crane manufacturers, the offshore sector and other industries such as mining continue to drive growth at Lebus.
Consultancy work is also flourishing, as more and more winch, hoist and crane users turn to Lebus for independent advice to resolve their wire rope spooling problems.

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