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An eye for detail and the big picture
Conrad Huhn has been at SWISS KRONO TEX for 26 years and as Flooring Production Manager, he and
his team ensure that production runs smoothly in the manufacture of MY FLOOR floors. He gave us
a brief glimpse of his average day:
As Production Manager, you must have a lot to There’s a fairly broad range of different laminate
coordinate and so much to keep an eye on. flooring – MY FLOOR alone has 5 different
What does this all consist of for you? collections of varying lengths, thicknesses and
widths. How do you manage the many different
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We produce between 170,000 m and orders from all round the world?
215,000 m of floors every day; that’s an im-
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pressive quantity of ecologically sustainable The available capacity required to supply our
floors for healthy living. 7 floor production customers has to be continuously coordinated
systems alone have to be coordinated for the with Sales. The major task is to find a cost-effective
various products. Added to this, there is tool balance between the needs of customers and
management and tool technology. In addition, the optimisation of processes. It’s a constant
goods inwards and inventory management challenge not to lose the necessary flexibility,
for semi-finished and finished goods must of and this keeps us on our toes. By optimising
course be monitored. Our team consists of processes, we were able in the last few years
130 employees. As a result, everything is to steadily boost the efficiency of the 7 floor
very well coordinated. production systems.
Every one of our 7 floor production systems
has its specific technical characteristics – e.g.
specialising in entry level products up to 8 mm
or suitable for additional product finishing with
footfall sound insulation film, products with and
