A hybrid coating process involving two suppliers often results in a lead time of several weeks for two processes that, taken together, take just a few hours. The rest of the time is spent on queuing, packing, transport and incoming inspection, and most of this is duplicated because the work is split between two companies....
A crate of parts is returned by the customer’s client. The coating is flaking off along the edges of a handful of parts. Not on all of them, just on some. This triggers a job that no purchaser has factored into the budget. The supplier of the galvanic undercoat sends their...
From Uldum’s perspective, Sweden is not a distant export market. It’s right on our doorstep. Several of our biggest customers are on the other side of the Øresund, and many of them have been working with us for years. This collaboration has taught us what Swedish buyers expect from a subcontractor....
On 4 October 1986, Chem-Tec in Uldum fulfilled its first order. Edge connectors on printed circuit boards were to be gold-plated, and the work took place in a 166-square-metre hall with two production lines. Today, 40 years later, Chem-Tec Plating A/S has 35 employees, 12...
The distance from Uldum to Hamburg is around 300 kilometres. From Munich to Hamburg, it is almost 800. This distance comes as a surprise to most people. It also says something about how a German buyer might view Denmark. For a company in northern Germany, a Danish supplier is closer...