Over the weekend of 12-13th September 2014, Aluminiumwerk Unna AG celebrated its 100th anniversary together with around 1,500 guests. The celebrations took place in the newly refurbished inspection and packing halls (H1.1 and H1.2) at the company. On Friday, 250 guests including customers, suppliers and other stakeholders in the company were invited to attend. A table used to display the many wonderful and creative gifts brought by the guests was overloaded and visibly strained under the weight.

Welcome speeches were made by the mayor of Unna, Werner Kolter, the CEO of the German Aluminium Association Christian Wellner, Wolfgang Milcke, who today is CEO of Unnapur, a neighbouring business of AWU. Speeches were also made by delegates from both of the major shareholders of the company, Michael Lux, representative of the Aluminiumwerk Unna e.V. and Thomas Wiese CEO of the Aluminiumwerk Unna Beteiligungs GmbH.

The days many highlights included detailed plant tours and the premiere of the movie "100 years of Aluwerk - A company with soul" in which the employees of our company described from their point of view, what makes it so special to work for Aluminiumwerk. A number of sapling trees were presented by guests for planting in our small green zone and fundraising contributions from the board were made.

The events of Friday were a prelude to Saturday's events, considered to be the most important day of the celebrations.  1150 guests principally made up of employee's families and friends were invited to the company. For the children, a number of activities were offered such as creating Pizza, eating Ice-cream and many games and of course, the plant tour to the working places of the parents. For the adults and children, a huge buffet had been prepared and for the thirsty ones, beverages for the adults and soft drinks for the children were available. The weather conditions were excellent and the superbly organized party was enjoyed by all.

Following the customary welcome speeches made by Michael Lux and Thomas Wiese, which were well received, a special showing of the movie "100 years of Aluwerk - A company with soul" was made to the guests.

Aluminiumwerk Unna AG would like to thank all guests for attending and for making these two extraordinary days of celebration something very special and memorable.

Volker Findeisen

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