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Dear Customers, Dear Partners,

We hope that this issue of our YEARBOOK finds you healthy with hope in your hearts! We know that the past year, once again, has been challenging for all of us. So, first of all, we’d like to give a shout-out to all of you who worked alongside us as reliable customers and partners, successfully overcoming the obstacles of working from home and juggling unforeseen events that occur during a pandemic. Shortly before the editorial deadline for this issue, we were emotionally struck by the sudden events in Ukraine. We are sure they have affected you as well. We wish with all our heart that peace and stability will soon return to Europe.

Until then, we at KLINGER will ensure stable supply chains as we have always done for over 130 years. Because the greater the challenge, the more you can rely on us to be there for you. Why is that so, you ask? Well, as the management of the KLINGER Group, we recognize the importance of strong partnerships and working together to find solutions. For only together can we make the world a better place. It is precisely this positive spirit that we would like to share with all of you in this YEARBOOK.

We are proud to report that we have reinvented ourselves in several areas. These changes have benefited our team as well as our customers and partners. To give you a few examples: We have further automated and digitized our manufacturing processes (see pages 14 to 16 for the digitization of our sheet production and read more on page 26 about how we implemented an extremely effective PLM system at our Norwegian location KLINGER Westad). We were able to launch new, innovative products (check pages 18 to 21) and improve our services (more details on page 35). Lastly, and maybe most importantly, we have succeeded in improving our ecobalance.

In fact, we’re dedicating an entire section of this YEARBOOK to our green agenda starting on page 29. That’s only a fair share, since we firmly believe that new environmentally friendly technologies like district heating (page 42) and geothermal energy (page 32) are just around the corner, waiting to take over on a large scale. This is what we stand for at every single location of our global network. Let us hold on to our courage and work together to find solutions to make this world a better place.