For ILFA, 9 November is an occasion to once again focus on our open and tolerant corporate culture. With around 200 employees from more than 20 nations, we are also a multicultural pool of individuals who get on well and work well together.
The integrated comprehensive school (IGS) Bothfeld organised an internal training fair for the second time on 12.10.2023, which was aimed at grades 9 to 13. In addition to ILFA, around 40 regional companies presented themselves, offering a wide range of opportunities for training or studying after leaving school. With our training officers Peter Schittek and Ismail Uckun, we also showed the range of our entry opportunities at ILFA and presented, among other things, the professions of machine and plant operator, industrial clerk or electronics technician for industrial engineering.
Training to become an electrotechnical assistant is a two-year, initial vocational training programme that is conducted at a vocational school and includes a four-week internship. Our two trainees Johanna and Nikola attend the Berufsbildende Schule Metalltechnik – Elektrotechnik (bbs-me) of the Hanover region for the training and have each secured a traineeship at ILFA. There they learn everything about the production of the printed circuit board and design their own printed circuit board layout for their project work.
Structures on modern printed circuit boards are becoming smaller and smaller, materials are becoming thinner and thinner, and the number of pressings is constantly increasing. This requires certain technologies and processes to be able to meet the requirements of complex PCBs. This time in the spotlight: embedded resistors with OhmegaPly®.
Since its introduction in May 2023, ILFA has also been offering its employees the D-Ticket Hannover Job, which can be used in combination for the daily commute but also for journeys throughout Germany. The special feature here: ILFA pays an employer subsidy of €12.25 and thus bears around 25% of the costs per ticket. A further subsidy from the GVH and the Hannover Region means that the employee only has to pay €30.40 per month – making the D-Ticket Hannover Job significantly cheaper than the previous regular job ticket.
The 71st Residenzfest took place in Kirchheimbolanden in mid-August. The wine festival, in the ambience of the historic towers and city walls, was awarded the title of the most beautiful wine festival in the Palatinate in 2017. The employees of ILFA’s Kirchheimbolanden branch did not want to miss out on this festivity and celebrated there with colleagues from TCLAD Europe and Brain4PCB.
In July, we celebrated the anniversary of our two colleagues Andrea Wolf and Gundula Terelak. They have been in sales at ILFA for 20 years now, looking after existing customers and acquiring new customers for our PCB solutions. Of course, we celebrated this in a fitting manner. Together with colleagues from the team, there were many kind words, flowers and a joint snack.
They have been with us for about two weeks now and are slowly settling in: Three young men have started their training with us and are learning everything about the production of complex printed circuit boards.
5 days, 5 professions, 5 companies – this is the motto of the “Internship Week”, which is offered at the beginning of the summer holidays in about 100 regions in Germany. Pupils can register free of charge, select their desired occupational fields and are then suggested companies from their region that offer corresponding internships. We also took part as the organising company and were able to offer 3 young people an insight into the typical fields of activity at ILFA.
In June we were able to celebrate two anniversaries in one day: Maria Herdt and Olga Kaplun have been with us for 10 and 20 years respectively. This was reason enough for us to exchange some old anecdotes, have a small snack with the respective departments and look back on the past years.