Competitiveness, jobs, and the future — in Wiehl.
With investments in a Customer Experience Center and a state-of-the-art Logistics Center, Kampf GmbH is laying a solid base for the future.
We are a leading partner for slitting and winding technology, with a history dating back more than 100 years. Opening up new future prospects is thus a recurring theme with a long tradition at our site in Wiehl, Germany. The construction of the new Customer Experience Center “THE LINQ—Home of Slitting and Winding”—including a technology center and a dialogue center—in conjunction with the new state-of-the-art Logistics Center marks a major expansion of our future-relevant functions at the Wiehl location. With this project, we are actively driving progress—for our customers and partners worldwide and our employees here on-site.
The construction of these new facilities represents not only an investment in the location, but also a strengthening of the cornerstone of our strategy: our total customer orientation.
Press release
Kampf GmbH, a leading partner for slitting and winding technology, is building a Customer Experience Center and a Logistics Center in Wiehl, North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany. The foundation stone for the new facilities was laid in October 2024.
Our construction project—overview
| Customer Experience Center | The new Customer Experience Center “THE LINQ—Home of Slitting and Winding,” is a modern demonstration facility in which customers will experience emerging technologies in a practice-relevant setting. It is also conceived as a dialogue center offering customers, partners, and employees space for training, events, and exchange. |
| Logistics Center | The heart of the new Logistics Center is a digitally integrated high-bay warehouse. It will help us respond to internal orders as well as those of our customers even more immediately and with greater flexibility. |
From left to right: Burhan Kayiran, Head of Logistics and Project Manager for the Logistics Center; Dr. Benedikt Sitte, COO of Kampf; Markus Vollmer, CEO of Kampf; Rike Johnsen, CFO of Kampf; Andre Lang, architectural firm Lang & Stranzenbach; Malte Eckert, Director Supply Chain and Project Manager for THE LINQ.
Why is Kampf building?
The expansion of our site is a decisive step towards positioning ourselves for the future as a leading partner for slitting and winding technology.
Modern technologies
We are investing in state-of-the-art technologies and infrastructure to be able to respond to the requirements of the market and the needs of our customers even better than before.
With digital technology and optimized processes, we are increasing the quality and efficiency of our products. This will also enable us to offer services and tailor-made solutions over the long term that meet our customers’ expectations.
Space for collaboration
We are creating an environment that promotes collaboration between our teams and fosters mutual learning and ongoing skills development. And our team thinking extends beyond our own employees, to our partners and customers—because in our joint pursuit of solutions to our customers’ challenges, we are all members of a whole.
Efficient logistics
As part of our strategy to continuously improve and optimize production processes, we are also working to increase the efficiency of our logistics processes. The Logistics Center will give rise to innovative solutions that optimize processes and heighten productivity.
A technology center that sets global standards
With THE LINQ—Home of Slitting and Winding, Kampf is investing in what has always made us strong: leading technologies and close relationships with our customers. THE LINQ will act as a bridge connecting information, technologies, and people in the digital world.
Its technology and dialogue centers will bring together research and development, continuing training, and community exchange in around 3,000 m² of floor space.
The origins of our success lie in Wiehl. Our headquarters is the location where our leading slitting and winding technology began—a technology found today in areas such as packaging, battery cells, monitors, and many more. THE LINQ will be a place that further develops this tradition and leads it into the future.
Research and development
The machinery in our technical facilities will enable us and our partners to develop and test new technologies. In the facility of 1,500 m², we will be able to observe special applications in practice-like conditions, develop custom solutions, and optimize them to precisely meet our customers’ requirements.
Dialogue center
THE LINQ will additionally house a dialogue center to which we will invite our partners, customers, and employees so that they can exchange knowledge, acquire new competencies, and build networks. As a leading partner for slitting and winding technology, proximity to people is an essential part of our success—and we are providing space for it here!
Technology, digitalization, service
THE LINQ will play an integral role in our active orientation to the future. It will serve as a basis for the ongoing expansion of our technical and digital expertise. It will additionally place the focus on our customers and strengthen our range of services over the long term.
Logistics for the world of tomorrow
Kampf operates worldwide and is globally networked. Wiehl is our central location and the cradle of our success—and we want to keep it that way.
Thanks to good transport connections, the plant is a foundation of our success in terms of logistics as well. To ensure that we can maintain and expand this position in the coming decades, we are building a new, state-of-the-art high-bay warehouse. Here, in an area of over 2,500 m², we will store spare parts and components required both by our customers and in our own on-site production of market-leading slitting and winding machines.
The Logistics Center is thus a response to the needs of our customers. Digital technology and a high degree of automation will allow us to respond to inquiries considerably faster and more flexibly in the future. In this way, we are creating the logistics of the future and laying the groundwork for unprecedented productivity.
Information for area residents
At Kampf GmbH, we see ourselves as part of the Wiehl community—and not just because of our long shared history. Good neighborly relations are a matter of course for us. We are conscious of the potential impacts of our construction activities and will be happy to answer any questions and receive any suggestions from area residents.
Simply contact our construction team.
E-Mail: baudialog@kampf.de
Contact
Do you have any questions or comments about THE LINQ - Home of Slitting and Winding and our new Logistics Center? Our contact form is a quick and easy way to get in touch with our construction team.
