A veteran of our network work is entering its 15th year: participants of the Working Group Shipping, Foreign Trade and Logistics (VAL for short) met on March 5, 2025 in our port room to review the past years and discuss current topics.

The “Made in Westphalia” series, which has been taking us to interesting production companies in our region in cooperation with the SIHK since 2024, continued. The first visit in 2025 was to our member company SCHMITZ medical GmbH in Bönen.

So, are you in yet? This is one of the important questions we are currently asking our members. Because we have been working and communicating with the new NIRO app for a month now.

NIRO has been joined by a neighbor in Dortmund’s port: Chemikalien-Gesellschaft Hans Lungmuß mbH & Co. KG from Dortmund, a specialist in innovative refractory products, is a new member of our network.

Since our move, we are still far from knowing all the companies in our new environment.

To kick off our AI journey, around 30 managers from member companies came together at Albrecht JUNG GmbH & Co. KG in Schalksmühle on February 4, 2025.
Making AI tangible and seeing and discussing current AI applications live in action in member companies – this is the thematic goal of the AI journey, which will take us to various member companies.

At the workshop on February 6, 2025, managers from various functional areas came together in our port area to deal with current issues relating to sustainability. Three interesting inputs provided the basis for the discussion.