There are complaints everywhere in the industry about the lack of skilled workers. Not so at the Peters Group, based in Kempen (Lower Rhine): For years, the family-run company has relied on its own young talent and trains young people as industrial clerks and chemical production specialists.
The supplier of coatings for the production of printed circuit boards, the protection of assemblies and electronic components as well as integrated solutions for coating technology is once again introducing trainees to the profession. In addition to 18-year-old Adelisa Sabovic, who has started a three-year apprenticeship as an industrial clerk at Peters, 31-year-old Philippe Heghmanns is being trained as an industrial clerk and 25-year-old Malik Kurz as a chemical production specialist.
Together with almost 50 other trainees from small and medium-sized companies, the Peters trio took part in a three-day introductory training course organized by Unternehmerschaft Niederrhein. The trainees reported afterwards that the teamwork had been very instructive.
"The aim of the training is to give the three of them an insight into all areas of our company," explains training officer Birgit Schuffelen. In the case of industrial clerk-to-be Sabovic, this included purchasing and sales, dispatch, laboratory, international customer service, financial accounting and head office. For Kurz and Heghmanns, the stations filling, dispatch, laboratory and warehouse are planned. All three are impressed by the training conditions and the opportunities offered to them at Peters. Philippe Heghmanns can well imagine "adding a technician's certificate after the two-year apprenticeship."
