Masterflex AG, Gelsenkirchen - April 14, 2011
On April 5 and 6, 2011, the meeting of the E/D/E competence group Hose & Fittings of the Fachkreis Technischer Handel took place. The members of the highly specialized dealers for the product area hose & fittings are engaged in an intensive know-how transfer among each other as well as to the industry. They met at the beginning of the two-day event at Masterflex AG in Gelsenkirchen, which hosted this year's meeting.
During a detailed tour of the company, Ole Stein, business unit manager for high-tech hose systems at Masterflex AG, presented the high-tech company's high level of material and processing expertise. The innovative, electrically heated templine hoses represented a focal point of the event at Masterflex.
The first part of the conference ended with a guided tour of the Schalker Arena and a "press conference" of the competence group after a joint dinner and a matching Champions League victory of 1. FC Schalke 04 against Inter Milan.
On the second day of the event, the group met for the official internal conference part of the specialist group meeting.
The Fachkreis Technischer Handel is the association of independent specialist dealers throughout Germany. With close ties to the E/D/E system headquarters, the specialist group was founded in 1995 with 19 members. Today, more than 30 technical dealers with a total of over 60 locations are members of the specialist group.