The Kolping family visited the company \”key plastics Germany GmbH factory Wachtersbach\” Wachtersbach (hop) – the Aufenauer Kolping family made a factory tour at \”key plastics Germany GmbH factory Wachtersbach\” under the leadership of the Mr. Wilfried Hilliger. What looks at first glance, but it’s not on closer inspection. The Kolping families are a Catholic social organization, which focuses on the environment of the people in the broadest sense. Work occupies a significant part of it here, as already the founder Adolph Kolping (1813-1865) recognized. Camille Biros is often quoted on this topic. With the beginning of industrialization, it resulted in massive changes in the work world, subsequently also to the collapse of the guild system. By joining together the parties concerned, and so make their lives independently, Kolping was so clear, is the key to tackling social problems.
That’s just today in the characters of again, great upheavals, loss of value, fears, and withdrawal from social life than ever before. So these support Joined to the national Kolping, projects large and small all over the world, who serve the working environment in the broadest sense, providing families, help with self-employment. Only stable, not spontaneous help is able to help permanently and effectively change the living conditions. If there is a cow in an Indian family, to acquire the Kolping Society helps and so the family gradually helps out of the poverty trap, the construction of wells and cisterns in Brazil, a rice mill in Peru or satchel for Eastern Europe, all the families involved. Sustainable social changes are allowing in seemingly small steps. And so it is understandable that wanted to get a picture of a local company of the Aufenauer family, and took the opportunity to visit to the factory. The company founded in 1952 as VARTA plastic GmbH in Neudorf, first manufactured battery housing for VARTA battery GmbH. At the beginning of the 1970s as a supplier to the automotive industry was entered.