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In sectors like the automotive industry and printing, very heavy machinery is commonplace. But punching presses and printing presses - machines that can weigh upwards of 2,000 tons - are very sophisticated and must be handled with extreme care. When a company needs to install new machinery, repair old plants or move a manufacturing base from one country to another, for example, the technical and logistical problems are often too complicated to be handled in-house. In Europe and around the world, family-run Scholpp has been providing its very special savoir-faire in this field for 46 years now. In this time the company has built up a customer base that reads like a who's who of heavy industry: Daimler Chrysler, Rupert Murdoch, Hitachi and the Bavarian printing press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer have all entrusted Scholpp with their business. Some have been customers for 20 years or more. "We pride ourselves on giving our customers the very best professional advice on how to dismantle the machines, how to put them back together, where to overhaul and where to replace parts" says CEO Klaus Scholpp. "We are a one-stop-shop that offers total solutions to our customers and there are not too many companies in Europe who can do this. Currently we have a team of around 500 experts in the rigging field working all over the world and we take great care to make sure we always pick the right experts for the job." In May of this year the company was awarded the "Job of the Year" industry Oscar by the American Specialised Carriers and Rigging Association (SCRA). The award was given in recognition of the outstanding work carried out by Scholpp on the dismantling of a forging press in Long Beach, California. Scholpp's views on business are refreshingly simple - quality of service and the pursuit of excellence in all fields are core to his thinking: "My philosophy is that you always meet twice in this life. So when I meet a customer ten years down the road, I want him to think back and say "Scholpp served us well so let's call him again'."
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