A-TEC INDUSTRIES AG

Human Resources: Minerals & Metals Division

Montanwerke Brixlegg — an Austrian company with long traditions — operates one of Europe’s largest secondary copper smelters. A-TEC’s Minerals & Metals Division also includes Gindre Duchavany, a French manufacturer of semi-finished copper products, and a copper recycling works in Krompachy, Slovakia.

Montanwerke Brixlegg trains its Austrian employees for careers as clerical workers, laboratory technicians, electricians, fitters and plumbers.

Accolades won in apprentices’ competitions — the company boasted the winner of the clerical category of the provincial awards — reflect the high training standards in the division. Flexible use of human resources at all the division’s companies through staff deployment across departmental boundaries and national borders is a high priority.

As all other divisions, the Minerals & Metals Division attaches great importance to employee health and safety, and this is reflected in a total of only 80 reportable workplace accidents (2007: 87). Employee health and safety officers have been appointed at all the companies in the division. Intra-divisional employee exchanges are an ideal way of promoting more flexible internal cooperation, and thus also positively impact divisional performance. The outstanding results of the division’s apprentices in their final examinations is testimony to the high quality of their training.

For further details visit www.montanwerke-brixlegg.com.