SLM Solutions officially opens new headquarters in Lübeck

Chairman of the Supervisory Board Hans-Joachim Ihde cut the ribbon for the future-oriented location in Schleswig-Holstein together with the Executive Board and Lübeck's Mayor Jan Lindenau at the festive opening ceremony to open the site officially for further development of metal-based additive manufacturing.

The new headquarters of SLM Solutions Group is a modern competence centre, which provides optimal general conditions for future innovations, higher production capacities and further growth.

The Minister of Economic Affairs of Schleswig-Holstein, Dr Bernd Buchholz, opened the ceremony with his speech: "SLM Solutions is a flagship company in Schleswig-Holstein. A rapidly growing company supported by technology promotion has been created, which still feels at home in Lübeck and consciously selected this location."

Jan Lindenau, Mayor of Lübeck, added: "As mayor of the city of Lübeck, I am very pleased to have a company such as SLM Solutions at the site of Genin, which is producing the future with high-tech machines as well as with honest manual labour."

Two and a half years ago, SLM Solutions Group AG made the decision to build the new headquarters at a different location in Lübeck. In record time, a modern competence centre was constructed on an area 70,000m² with 10,000m² of office space, a hall area of 15,000m² and plenty of space for the currently more than 360 employees.

The Chairman of the Supervisory Board and founder of the company Hans-Joachim Ihde is very pleased with the success of his company: "We have achieved something very remarkable in a short time, and are shaping our future today with our employees from more than 40 countries."

The optimal infrastructure, a direct connection to the highway and, ultimately also enough space for further expansion of the fast-growing company tipped the scales in favour of the site.

With its headquarters in Lübeck-Genin, SLM Solutions is going to push ahead with the development of state-of-the art additive manufacturing machines at full speed. This is creating numerous new jobs in the process. The company has hired more than 200 new employees in recent years. IT specialists and software developers as well as mechanical engineers are particularly sought.

"In times of change in manufacturing technology, in which the competitive environment with new technologies is becoming more and more complex and the rate of innovations is increasing tremendously, offering young skilled workers an attractive employer with future viability and a modern competence centre, such as our new company headquarters is crucial for the future and innovation ability of our company," stated Uwe Bögershausen, CFO of the SLM Solutions Group.

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