local residents watch as fire destroys the Ober Ramstadt synagogue The local fire department prevented the fire from spreading to a nearby home but did not try to limit the damage to the synagogue the Nazis orchestrated a wave of nationwide violence targeting Jewish communities Around 30,000 men were arrested and sent to concentration camps merely for being Jewish desperate to escape Nazi Germany by any means possible.  world attention faded and the Nazis carried out even greater horrors Join us on the 85th anniversary of the “Night of Broken Glass” to understand this pivotal moment on the path to mass murder Historian and curator of Americans and the Holocaust exhibition WATCH ON FACEBOOK Nazi leaders unleashed a series of pogroms against the Jewish population in Germany and recently incorporated territories the life of nine-year-old Susan Warsinger changed forever the Nazi regime orchestrated a wave of violence against Jews a deadly turning point in Holocaust history American newspapers covered the Nazi terror attack against Jews in banner headlines on their front pages and articles about the events continued to appear for several weeks Jews have long been associated with finance and banking people in areas of Germany that historically experienced the highest levels of anti-Semitism are economically worse off This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License The Journalist's Resource September 22 Videos of white nationalists chanting “Jews will not replace us” surely startled anyone who thought anti-Semitism long dead in the America of 2017 But for others it simply confirmed that old prejudices die hard Today Jews still remain associated with financial services. Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman wrote in September 2017 that philanthropist George Soros is “easily cast in the role of the shadowy and manipulative international financier.” A new paper looks at lingering resentments in Germany and finds that families living in counties with a history of anti-Semitism today are less likely to invest in the stock market. That is costly because, as other research has shown holding stocks is associated with growing wealth in the long run “Hatred against Jews in the past reduces not only the long-term wealth of the persecuted but of the persecutors as well,” the authors write An academic study worth reading: “Historical Antisemitism, Ethnic Specialization, and Financial Development,” a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research Drawing on a diverse assortment of data measured across hundreds of years in Germany such as access to banking services and local anti-Semitism a team led by Francesco D’Acunto of the University of Maryland measures “present day regional differences in financial development.” the authors establish a number of proxies: They look for the presence of a Jewish community before the year 1300 (92 percent of counties) and for confirmed pogroms associated with the Black Death (54 percent of counties) a plague that spread across Europe around 1349 and for which Jews were widely blamed During the years leading up to the Holocaust of World War II votes for anti-Semitic parties and anti-Jewish pogroms They also use surveys from 1996 and 2006 that assessed German attitudes toward statements like: “Jewish people living in Germany should have the same rights as Germans in every respect.” The authors test several potentially confounding factors This 2017 paper in The Economic Journal finds an association between cooler growing seasons and persecution of Jews in Europe between 1100 and 1800 A 2017 ProPublica investigation found Facebook’s algorithms had learned to target advertisements at people self-identifying as “Jew haters.” The algorithms learn based on what they see online Factoid: By the 1880s, according to a contemporary account cited by D’Acunto and his colleagues in the paper profiled above yet Jews accounted for 23 percent of the finance sector and 85 percent of the traders on the Berlin stock exchange Harvard Kennedy School is committed to protecting your personal information you agree to receive communications from The Journalist's Resource and to allow HKS to store your data HKS will never sell your email address or other information to a third party All communications will include the opportunity to unsubscribe This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Application Areas Coatings Technologies Legislation Markets & Companies People & Careers Production & Lab Raw materials Sponsored Content Home » News » Markets & Companies » German paint factory Alfred Clouth is closing a company steeped in tradition based in Offenbach am Main/Germany will cease operations after more than 100 years The creditors’ committee has approved the closure after the search for an investor for the insolvent company failed Insolvency was already filed in 2023 after the company experienced significant declines in sales and rising raw material prices as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine ‘I am very sorry that we were unable to find a rescue solution despite intensive efforts,’ explains insolvency administrator Petra Heidenfelder from the law firm SGP Schneider Geiwitz & Partner known for high-quality paints and wood protection products DAW from Ober-Ramstadt has acquired the trademark rights and will continue to sell the products through DIY stores During the phase-out period leading up to the closure customers showed great interest in the remaining Clou products A buyer for the company premises is currently being sought so that no high sales proceeds are expected It remains uncertain whether creditors can expect a dividend Demand for sustainable products continues to grow — but decorative coatings must also be durable Striking the right balance is one of the greatest challenges facing the.. has introduced three regional entities in Germany The aim is to decentralise the company’s structure have inaugurated a new laboratory in Shanghai The centre aims to strengthen innovation capabilities in the region US chemicals group Dow is considering the shutdown of two energy-intensive plants in Schkopau and Böhlen The decision follows market overcapacities rising costs and increasing regulatory pressures... 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Marcus Jordan has assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of IMCD N.V Find the answers to the most frequently asked questions in our FAQ collection Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Economically viable operations in injection molding and die casting require high quantities and process reliability with short cycle times The correct temperature of the molds and systems play a crucial role here A new solution significantly reduces not only the risk of leaks in bores and flow channels but also the processes related to assembly and disassembly that previously were time-consuming and expensive and produced a lot of waste What is a closing and sealing system that was originally developed for vehicle components doing in molds and systems for the die casting and injection molding industry It is establishing itself as the intelligent alternative to conventional solutions – with a reliable sealing function up to 30 bar operating pressure simple installation without generating waste and a non-destructive disassembly process The history of the b&m-KL Plug began in the late 2010s at the application laboratory of baier & michels in Ober-Ramstadt the developers were working on a sealing element that had to be capable of significantly improving the balance between quality in particular in cooling and lubrication circuits “Our aim was to create a completely new system that could hold its own in direct comparison with elements such as expander plugs screw plugs or press-fit balls,” reports Constantin Egold This objective had to be achieved with different materials – primarily steel A radical idea eventually paved the way: The design engineers integrated the principle of a blind rivet into that of a closed blind rivet nut weight-optimized closing and sealing element that is suitable for hole diameters from 8 to 24 mm and can accommodate temperature fluctuations between -40 °C and +200 °C The right material pairing is a crucial aspect here: The component and the b&m-KL Plug have to have the same linear expansion coefficients During the setting process with a standard installation device the b&m-KL Plug has two parts – a conical inner part with thread and sleeve A 2-mm residual wall thickness in the component is enough for the plug to fully expand “The market launch was preceded by a comprehensive validation phase,” says Product Manager Constantin Egold This included leak tests at the TÜV Süd facility in Garching and vibration testing with temperature and pressure superposition at IMA Materialforschung und Anwendungstechnik GmbH in Dresden the b&m-KL Plug was cleared for use at the OEMs and suppliers in the automotive industry Its areas of application are wherever a flow has to be managed and controlled The element prevents oil leaking from compressor housings or seals chaplets in cast bearing housings for turbochargers “The exciting aspect of the b&m-KL Plug is its versatility,” says Constantin Egold Its special properties also make the system suitable as a flow regulator in channels filled with media such as water-glycol mixtures or oil Equipped with a temperature sensor and a thermowell this new type of plug can also be used as a monitoring unit for example to optimize the temperature control processes – whether in the power electronics of battery electric cars or in injection molding and die casting molds One of the companies who use the b&m-KL Plug is Haller Kunststofftechnik GmbH in Rodgau The company uses injection molding to manufacture technical components from thermoplastics These components are primarily used in the automotive cable mounts for electric cables and parts for refrigeration units “In the temperature control channels of the molds which we also manufacture for our customers,” explains Mark Joos “the b&m-KL Plug not only increases the quality of the seal it also considerably reduces the time and costs that were required for installing the previous closing elements.” A look at the production of a cable mount ordered by a car manufacturer illustrates what this means in practical application The focus is on the mold consisting of two halves – a cube weighing 900 kg in total with a length of 1000 mm and a width and depth of each 500 mm “It is made primarily of tool steel,” explains Mark Joos “whereby the areas that produce the actual shape and come into contact with the plastic are made of hardened tool steel As we also process glass-fiber reinforced plastics the mold contours have to be hardened and in some cases even coated – soft steel would wear too quickly.” To close off and seal the cooling circuits in the mold the Haller team had previously used expander solutions to improve the sealing effect but also plugs or threaded fittings made of brass but they require relatively complex preparation of the holes,” says Mark Joos such as changing the drill and countersinking while for sealing screws the milling of the head contact surface plays a crucial role as well.” It also has to be considered that many closing and sealing elements such as expanders generate a waste product (the mandrel) that has to be removed from the assembly system in a separate step which saves us around 5 minutes per hole,” says Mark Joos “We usually work with diameters ranging from 10 to 14 mm.” According to Joos the channels in the two molds for the cable bracket contain around 80 b&m-KL Plugs – “which makes us significantly more efficient overall” Efficiency is also key when designing temperature control circuits Depending on whether the medium is a water-glycol mixture or oil years of use of the mold with sometimes extended storage times can cause a gradual build-up of corrosion or dirt baier & michels Product Manager Constantin Egold therefore recommends keeping the medium volume in the channels as low as possible The b&m-KL Plug could help to reduce the so-called dead space: “With a longer mouthpiece it can be quickly positioned in the hole at the desired depth And in contrast to other closing and sealing solutions the hole can be reused if necessary without any repeat preparation.” The issue of non-destructive disassembly is particularly important for die casting The required volume of molten metal is filled into a receiving chamber – the shot chamber – for each new casting cycle and forced into the mold cavity at high speed by a moving plunger “To ensure that the liquid metal with a temperature of around 700 °C does not change its physical state in the shot chamber the usually oil-filled temperature control circuits heat up the chamber walls from the outside,” explains Constantin Egold generally involves removing screw plugs or – for other solutions – swarf in a complex process The holes then have to be drilled to the next larger diameter for the new elements which often presents a challenge or limitations with respect to the available space “The b&m-KL Plug can be removed without any destruction and therefore helps to save time,“ says Constantin Egold and adds: “By making complex things look easy this unique sealing plug supports our customers in their striving for stable processes and a high level of automation.” baier & michels Founded in 1932 as a local screw dealer the company is now established as a member of the Würth Group with 500 employees and global operations: baier & michels (b&m) with headquarters in Ober-Ramstadt (Germany) support the manufacturing industry in the field of cold forming The basis for this is provided by fasteners as well as closing and sealing systems from in-house development and production Customers include OEMs and suppliers from the automotive electrical and medical technology sectors as well as from toolmaking and plant engineering baier & michels offer application consulting training courses and the b&m-PORT – an online portal that supports industrial companies with standardizing their C parts I would like to receive the bi-weekly Foundry-Planet newsletter with all latest news Plus the special newsletters – all can be cancelled anytime and at no cost Business Administration & Organization headquartered in Ober-Ramstadt in southern Hesse producing and distributing premium products for buildings and building protection for more than 125 years Founded in 1895 and family-run for five generations the DAW group of companies is the umbrella for numerous strong brands Ober-Ramstadt is also DAW's largest location where the core brands Alpina and Caparol are produced and where the research and development and innovation departments are based the building paints manufacturer opened a new distribution center with a high degree of automation and digitalization LogiPlus Consulting from Ludwigshafen supported DAW with the conversion of the existing warehouse management solution SAP Warehouse Management (WM) to SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) and with the integration of the technical systems into the SAP landscape during the entire multi-stage project planning This resulted in the end-to-end automation of intralogistics at the Ober-Ramstadt site DAW faced a number of complex challenges in 2018 A continuous increase in the variety of articles over the last 15 years and changing market requirements led to an increased need for storage capacity which could no longer be covered by the existing structures on the factory premises DAW had to store goods in various external warehouses and also pick partial product ranges there This situation led to an enormous amount of work in inventory management and requirements planning Picking required a high level of article expertise from employees as mobile dialogs and forklift control in a proprietary Due to the discontinuation of SAP WM and the planned parallel introduction of S/4 Hana DAW decided to replace the existing IT infrastructure and put it on a completely new footing With the aim of optimizing the entire supply chain processes and reducing transport routes the warehouse locations that were previously spread across the factory premises and external warehouse locations in the region were to be brought together under one roof In order to create the necessary storage capacity and simultaneously optimize the processes in the warehouse the concept included the construction of an automated high-bay warehouse (HBW) including the conveyor connection of the various storage areas The automation of processes was to be accompanied by a considerable reduction in the workload for logistics employees including the integration of manual areas and existing systems such as conveyor technology Another key objective was to optimize the workplace design for warehouse employees based on ergonomic criteria The project included the software integration of all systems in order to efficiently control all logistics processes and ensure ongoing operations compatibility and central control of the warehouse in a dominant system DAW decided to migrate the existing SAP WM system to SAP EWM As S/4 had not yet been introduced as an ERP system "The project consisted of medium and long-term goals the existing SAP WM and the existing systems had to be replaced by SAP EWM and SAP EWM MFS the SAP EWM processes had to grow in line with the construction progress and the associated commissioning," explains Jörg Martin extensive construction work began on the state-of-the-art logistics center at the Ober-Ramstadt site which was officially opened in September 2022 comprises an automated high-bay warehouse (HBW) with around 30,000 pallet spaces an AutoStore system for small containers with three picking stations and 12,000 containers in which around 3,500 items are stored dynamic picking buffer with around 1,500 pallet spaces and six picking workstations The automated Auto-Store container warehouse operates with seven robots in three-shift operation which move the required containers to one of a total of four workstations The stock overview is managed centrally in SAP EWM AutoStore and picking stations are supplied by an electric overhead conveyor (EHB) The pallets for the HBW are automatically transported to one of the eight aisles in the HBW via a conveyor loop and automatically stored and retrieved from here using storage and retrieval machines Manual picking comprises 1200 picking stations.  An important goal in the design was to switch from the "person-to-goods" strategy to the "goods-to-person" principle By implementing the "goods-to-person" principle the distances for employees were reduced and work in the new DAW finished goods warehouse the experts from LogiPlus worked with DAW to replace the existing SAP WM warehouse management system with a decentralized SAP EWM in order to expand the inventory warehouse By optimizing the material flow with EWM-MFS (Material Flow System) automation solutions such as AutoStore and a forklift control system could then be introduced and integrated into the project S/4 Hana was implemented downstream as an ERP system and now complements the automated intralogistics landscape at DAW's main site.  the biggest advantage was that everything could be connected via EWM-MFS SAP EWM is therefore the central control unit for all process sequences The implementation took place during ongoing operations and the delivery service to the customer was ensured in every phase of the project The overall project enabled external warehouse activities to be fully integrated back into the Ober-Ramstadt site," says Jörg Martin summarizing the implementation project process.  finished goods and packaging under one roof This has improved the availability of items and the stability of processes and DAW can offer its customers a better delivery service The material flow was improved by running in one direction from the central goods receiving area on the third floor of the logistics building to loading at the ramp on the first floor output was increased by 57 percent to around three million delivery note items per year There are various options for connecting AutoStore to SAP EWM DAW decided not to connect via external middleware but instead opted for a direct connection via a task interface This means that stocks and storage locations are managed directly in EWM making EWM the dominant central control system Communication between SAP EWM and AutoStore is handled on the basis of TCP/IP in XML format via http This allows SAP EWM to transmit all storage and retrieval orders directly to the AutoStore Controller This central control unit of the AutoStore takes over the route control of the robots and decides which robot can access the required container most efficiently The operator at the port is guided through the process optimally and intuitively via the user interfaces and dialogs individually developed by LogiPlus This means that even new employees are quickly up and running the topic of automation and therefore the integration of various systems in SAP EWM is at the top of the agenda for many companies companies can create 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