Gerresheimer Bünde: our apprentices are our next generation of top employees

Düsseldorf/Bünde, July 10, 2012 – What will the first day of the apprenticeship be like? Who are the people I’ll be working with? What will be expected of me? Gerresheimer Bünde organized an Induction Event on the afternoon of July 4 so that the new apprentices could find the answer to these questions and look forward to their first day at work before they embark on their careers. It gave them all the opportunity to take a “close up“ look at their company before they start their apprenticeship and to get to know their future colleagues and managers. 

Olaf Grädler, HR Manager in Bünde, believes that apprenticeships are vital: “Our apprentices are our next generation of top employees and we want them to feel at home from the very first day onwards.“ 

Gerresheimer Bünde is currently providing training to 16 apprentices in four occupations. This year it has taken on its very first warehouse logistics management assistant apprentice. The company has also extended its apprenticeship and degree course program. Henrik Lampe is the first person to enroll on the BEng Industrial Engineering sandwich degree course.

The new apprentices will be involved in the production of glass syringes from tubular glass at their new workplaces in the Gerresheimer Bünde plant. All stages of the production process are precisely coordinated and certified.

After a guided tour and all the impressions it provided, the new apprentices all agreed: “We’re looking forward to August 1 so we can show Gerresheimer what we’ve got in us.“ 

Further information

  • <link http: www.gerresheimer.com en company locations gerresheimer-buende-gmbh.html _blank external-link-new-window>Gerresheimer Bünde
  • <link http: www.gerresheimer.com en products-services pharma-healthcare tubular-glass product-segments glass-syringes.html _blank external-link-new-window>Gerresheimer Syringe Systems
  • <link http: www.gerresheimer.com _blank external-link-new-window>Video about the productions of syringes (PharmaPlus)

Gerresheimer Bünde GmbH

Gerresheimer Bünde GmbH is part of the Tubular Glass Division. Gerresheimer Bünde is located in Bünde-Südlengern. It has the most modern production facility for pre-fillable syringe systems in the world. The company was founded in 1947 by the Hennings and Zimmermann families as Bünder Glas GmbH. Today, Gerresheimer Bünde GmbH is able to look back on 65 years of experience. Our Bünde production facility has around 700 employees and is the Gerresheimer Group’s competence center for syringes that are used for the long-term storage of pharmaceutical products such as vaccines.

About Gerresheimer

Gerresheimer is an internationally leading manufacturer of high-quality specialty products made of glass and plastic for the global pharma and healthcare industry. Our comprehensive portfolio of products extends from pharmaceutical vials to complex drug delivery systems such as syringe systems, insulin pens and inhalers for safe medication dosage and application. Together with our partners, we develop solutions which set standards and have role model status in their respective market sectors. 

Our Group realizes revenues of around one billion euros and has over 10,000 employees at 47 locations in Europe, North and South America and Asia.  We use first-rate technologies, convincing innovations and targeted investments to systematically consolidate our strong market position. 

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