KSB is an international corporation with over 141 years of experience. Today KSB is one of the world leaders in the production of pumps, valves, and control technology. The company is present in Poland as KSB Pompy i Armatura Sp. z o.o. and this year they are celebrating their 20^th anniversary.

Normally, if you think of foil you think of a very thin sheet of metal or a thin layer of plastic material. Foil was first known to be made from gold leaf laboriously hammered by hand and was used to hold gemstones. Over time foil became synonymous with very thin material with a large surface that is almost tear-proof.

In recent years Turkey has become an emerging trading and industrial nation, a hub between east and west, between north and south. Turkey’s territory sits on two continents and can boast a coast of 7,200 kilometres. Important waterways such as the Bosporus, the Dardanelles, the Suez canal, and Gibraltar at the other end of the Mediterranean make the country an integral part of global business.

The company Bruning Tecnometal (www.bruning.com.br) was founded at Panambi, a small town in the south of Brazil, in 1947 to service imported agricultural machinery. After some years Bruning started to construct smaller agricultural machines themselves.

STAJA is a Dutch steel construction company specialising in construction works and mass welding for the international sales markets. Staja is not only supplying customers in Western European countries but also has customers in Canada and Japan.

On the west coast of Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia, you will find an area of towns and municipalities where both Swedish and Finnish are spoken. One of these municipalities is Jakobstad, or Pietarsaari in Finnish. The town was founded in 1652.

Plymouth in South West England has long been associated with the sea. In 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers left Plymouth for the New World, establishing a colony of the same name in what is now the USA. Plymouth now has ferry links to France and Spain and is home to the largest operational naval base in Western Europe.

In the far northwest of Spain you will find Cape Finisterre, so called after the Latin Finis terrae which means “the End of the World”. A long time ago one used to think that here on the shores of the rough Atlantic ocean the world had come to an end.

The pioneers of the German automobile industry such as Gottfried Daimler and Carl Friedrich Benz developed, constructed, and built the first cars almost single-handedly. Only very few components were supplied. 

What do an electronic component, a sun protection system, and a sports car have in common? All three contain one or more components made of aluminium or, as is the case of the sun protection system, are made of this material in their entirety.