Stories

Bärbel (21) and Moritz (21) are both 5th semester students studying industrial engineering at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Karlsruhe, and work for RONAL GmbH in Forst. At the beginning of September, they both travelled to Härkingen for two days to get to know our headquarters in Switzerland.

In March we introduced our RONAL POLSKA Run Team, consisting of our colleagues from Poland. The team members have been very active and have been taking part in different races during the last few months. Here is a little update on their activities and the races they have completed recently.

As previously reported, our factory in Landau (Germany) is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary in 2018. To thank our staff, who play an important part in the success of our company, there was a big family day in June.

Our plant in Landau, which went into operation in 1988, is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this year. As in every company, the success of the RONAL GROUP depends on the commitment of its staff – and this is most appreciated!

On June 2 and 3, 2018, we were delighted to take part in the Aviation Fair in Pardubice. The fair, which attracted outstanding pilots and famous aircraft, also featured a firework display, military land vehicles and equipment, and historical re-enactments. In addition, visitors were treated to performances by world aerobatics champions.

From 1 to 3 June, our SPEEDLINE plant in northern Italy had the pleasure of playing host to 110 intrepid players from all RONAL plants for this year’s RONAL Soccer Cup 2018, which is a tradition within the RONAL GROUP.

As part of our PLANBLUE sustainability concept, we launched the Bike2RONAL campaign last April. Our mission: All employees are called upon to travel to and from work in a way that is as CO2-neutral as possible. This is where we present the results.

The RONAL GROUP lined up on the starting grid once again between May 10-13 with Team Schirmer and Pirelli for the ADAC 24-Hour Race on the world’s longest track at the Nürburgring. Alongside five racing cars equipped with our wheels were some of our colleagues from different locations.

At the end of February, former Formula One driver Alex Zanardi (51) visited our Italian forging company App-Tech. Following a severe accident, he began a successful career in hand cycling and founded his own association to support handicapped children. We talked to this incredible man.

Some of our colleagues are not only working together but have also formed an athletic team: At the beginning of 2017 a formal running group was created in one of our plants in Wałbrzych, Poland. It is called RONAL POLSKA RUN. Find out more about its formation process here.

We receive designs from our clients for the production of our OEM wheels. Yet who designs the aftermarket rims that we sell under the RONAL and SPEEDLINE CORSE brands? One of these people is Alessandro Ghedin, a wheel designer at our Italian subsidiary.

We operate cogeneration units at our factory in San Luis Potosí in Mexico. We also plan to use them at our factory in Italy in the foreseeable future. We would like to explain why we are doing so in this article.

With Bike2RONAL we have set up an environmentally friendly, in-house campaign to try and persuade all employees around the world to travel to and from work without making their carbon footprint any larger. Our colleague René has seized on this campaign to combine work and pleasure.

Alron Lda, our toolmaking site of the RONAL GROUP in Cantanhede (Portugal), came in for a special mention at the 17th award ceremony of the energy supplier EDP, recognition corresponding to third place.

In 2017 the RONAL GROUP was once again represented at the Essen Motor Show from December 1-10. We showcased our latest products and technologies at stand D119 in Hall 11, as well as our new Aftermarket presence.

There was a catastrophe in central Portugal in mid-October: the dry weather caused forest fires, and over 40 people lost their lives. Others survived, but lost everything they possessed.

The RONAL GROUP presented the non-profit association MainLichtblick with a set of R62 wheels for their new company car. This will make it even easier to visit sick and traumatized children and make their heart’s desires come true.

A good one and a half years after laying the foundation stone, the time had come: our new plant in Teruel (Spain) was officially opened in mid-October!

In collaboration with the staff, RONAL Querétaro carried out a fund-raising exercise to help the victims of the mid-September earthquake.

The RONAL GROUP’s commitment to a sustainable future starts with PLANBLUE. However, good words must be matched by actions. This is why we started the Bike2Ronal campaign in the 2017/2018 financial year.

For a few European countries, a dual apprenticeship is not unusual. However, in the majority of countries across the world this type of employee development and knowledge transfer is rather unknown.

At this year’s racing weekend in the “Green Hell”, 25 employees from the RONAL GROUP sites in Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Poland were present not “only” as spectators, but also as active helpers.