With effect from 1st January, DIM Industrieservice Süd GmbH & Co KG has merged with SGS Industrial Services GmbH in Germany. This agreement has been reached between the SGS Management and Hydraulik Nord GmbH, the present company of DIM Industrieservice Süd.

Hans-Peter Lauble, Managing Director of SGS Industrial Services GmbH Germany, emphasises that there will be in the first instance only very few changes initially for the DIM employees: „We would like to take over all 220 DIM employees. Finally to the network of sites and subsidiaries, it was DIM’s qualified personal which provided an important basis for this decision on the part of SGS Industrial Services. We are happy to have the DIM personal on board of the SGS Group now and welcome them to their new company. Of course their contracts and all other agreements made with DIM will remain valid in their entirety.

Lauble knows the majority of the DIM staff members personally. A few months ago he was managing director at the head of DIM Industrietechnik Süd.

The merger of DIM Industrieservice Süd and SGS Industrial Services has produced an industrial service specialist with almost 850 employees and excellent opportunities in this growing market. “We want to utilize these opportunities together with our previous and our new employees”, explains SGS Managing Director Dr. Michael Schindl. “In contrast to DIM Industrieservice Süd’s previous parent company, HNP, which was a conglomerate, SGS Industrial Services is a full-blooded industrial service provider. The DIM employees are thus able to benefit from SGS Industrial Services’ accumulated expertise – and vice versa. That is also why SGS and DIM fit together so extraordinarily well”, emphasises Dr. Schindl. “SGS has a great deal of experience and a wealth of exciting international project contracts within the wood, steel and construction, stone, cement and earth industries. While SGS has maintained a more reticent position on the German market up to now, DIM has been serving this market with growing success for a number of years. It is a classic win-win situation”, Hans- Peter Lauble is pleased.

Task sharing forms the basis of the management concept envisaged for the eight DIM locations. Taufkirchen and Weimar are to provide support primarily for the project business such as new plant installation, disassembly and reassembly or plant modernisation, while Eisenhüttenstadt, Freital, Salzgitter, Zeitz, Baruth and Ulm are to provide mainly service and maintenance, as well long term applied service concepts.

“We have turbulent and stressful times behind us. Mainly because in preparing everything for the integration of DIM into SGS, we have made every effort to ensure that all of us will be able to work together positively and confidently as quickly as possible”, says Hans-Peter Lauble: “We are asking that everyone – both our previous and also our new employees –contribute their experience, their specialist skills and their commitment to ensure our joint market success. There are very good opportunities out there – so let’s get on with it.”