When asked if they have any good anecdotes to share, they start laughing. \u201cOf course. You don\u2019t spend 20\u00a0years with a company and not have a few stories,\u201d says Heinrich Siedenburg. Valeska Busch confirms this with a grin. Now head of the Sewing department, she has been with ECOCOOL longer than almost anyone at the company.<\/p>\n
Economics graduate Heinrich Siedenburg and engineering graduate Ulf C. Abbes founded ECOCOOL in 1999 and, in that same year, were awarded the Bremerhavener Gr\u00fcnderpreis (Bremerhaven Founder Prize) for their innovative packaging and insulation concepts. Dr\u00a0Florian Siedenburg has managed the company since 2015,<\/p>\n
while Valeska Busch has been on board for almost 14\u00a0years. Born in Cuxhaven, Germany, Busch was brought into ECOCOOL by Siedenburg Senior. Over the last five years, she has experienced the business\u2019s enormous growth from a family-run crafts business to a mid-size industrial company. \u201cThere were three people at the beginning. Once we started growing, we didn\u2019t stop, and we won\u2019t any time soon,\u201d says the ECOCOOL employee. She has come a long way from sitting alone at the sewing machine and stitching thermal covers to managing about 30\u00a0Sewing employees who work in shifts. \u201cWe\u2019ve had some real adventures,\u201d she says. She then explains what the production processes were like back when manual labour was truly manual. She also talks about the filling machines that Heinrich Siedenburg developed and built himself. \u201cThat was a far cry from modern technology,\u201d she says, smiling. \u201cBut we all start small.\u201d<\/p>\n
And speaking of small \u2013 or rather, young \u2013 it was clear from early on that son Florian would one day take the company reins. \u201cFlorian wasn\u2019t that old when he started filling in while his dad was on holiday,\u201d says Busch, strolling down memory lane. Heinrich Siedenburg beams with pride. \u201cMy son\u2019s a businessman. It\u2019s in his genes.\u201d Those genes ultimately paid dividends for ECOCOOL and its employees. \u201cWe used to celebrate every time we sent off a complete pallet to a customer,\u201d says Busch. These days, lorry drivers queue up to haul goods for the company: no fewer than ten truckloads are carried off daily from the lot in southern Bremerhaven and make their way around the world.<\/p>\n
ECOCOOL now has 85\u00a0employees working across three locations in Bremerhaven, plus additional sales reps in Bad Kreuznach and Berlin. The company will continue its growth spurt by bringing another hall into operation, but Dr\u00a0Florian Siedenburg says only healthy growth is good growth. He stresses the point, but doesn\u2019t stress about it. \u201cOur customers mainly work in pharmaceuticals, foodstuffs, transport and logistics. That\u2019s where our products are used. The quality speaks for itself. If you charted the demand for our refrigerated packaging and our packaging products, you\u2019d see a steady line going up,\u201d the managing director explains. \u201cWe\u2019re always finding new solutions for transporting temperature-sensitive goods,\u201d adds his father, who now holds an advisory position at ECOCOOL, not without a hint of pride. Valeska Busch makes it clear just how important she and her colleagues find the company\u2019s principles: \u201cWe swear by our products\u2019 quality, reliability and affordability. We offer remarkably quick delivery times, and are always happy to meet any special requirements customers may have.\u201d The final point has long been a staple of ECOCOOL\u2019s service. It\u2019s even on the senior director\u2019s \u201chomemade\u201d filling machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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