History

19.-21 March 2006, Montanwerke Brixlegg, Brixlegg/Austria
On-Site training course
(optional module Junior Support program)

Guided tour and series of lectures on copper on site at the Montanwerke Brixlegg AG in Austria.

Events in 2005:

In 2005, the Kaps-Foundation and the youth of the Association of German Metal Merchants (VDM) again organised an interesting programme of events around the topic of metal trading. Numerous pupils, juniors from the programs and interested new students participated in the meetings.

  • 11.-14. November 2005 / 1.-4 December 2005
    Next Generation seminars in Hoehr Grenzhausen

    We were pleased to have gained Ms. Gabriele A. Hofstaetter (Linz/Austria) as Speaker. She taught strategies on conversation training, public speaking, presentation and visualization techniques as well as negotiation methods. Ms. Hofstaetter gave the new generation many useful tips for their vocational life
  • 26.-28. October 2005, VDM Central Office, Berlin
    General conditions of the metal trade as obligatory module of the Junior Support program

    The focus of the seminar was on the newest legal borders in the metal trade. Refuse law, Federal pollution protection law, water and environmental law, foreign trade rights and the fundamentals of the commercial law were studied in detail.
  • 9.-11. October 2005
    Product seminar Aluminium at ALCAN Neuf Brisach/France
    as an optional module of the Junior Support program / in co-operation with the WGM, trade association wholesale semi-finished metals e.V.

    The seminar offered lectures and presentations on the production and uses of aluminium as well as a guided tour of the ALCAN plant at Neuf Brisach and the neighbouring Peugeot body press plant.
  • 3. June 2005 / 7. November 2005 / 18. November 2005
    Information meeting for pupils at TRIMET ALUMINIUM AG, Essen

    Final year students from the area were invited to the TRIMET ALUMINIUM AG in Essen. Apart from lectures on the metal trade and the occupation of the metal trader, the pupils also visited the TRIMET Electrolysis and Casthouse.

Events in 2004:

  • October 2004: On-Site training course "copper" at Norddeutsche Affinerie AG and Airbus Germany GmbH in Hamburg
  • April 2004: Juniors Meeting-Day "aluminium" at Hüttenwerke Bruch in Dortmund
  • March 2004: On-Site training course "high-grade steel, copper, aluminium" at the metal works Siegfrid Jacob in Ennepetal, and Grohe Armaturen in Hemer