Since more than 75 years, chainsaws were made at Dolmar in Hamburg. Now there was a round anniversary: Just before Christmas, the first million PS-33 hobby series saws were filled. A do-it-yourself team was there.
The Dolmar is in Thuringia and was at the last measurement 739,5 m high. The Dolmar comes from Hamburg and is almost half a meter long. But she has a million sisters. Laid one after the other, they result in a route like that from Hamburg to Frankfurt, Saw to saw. Since company founder Emil Lerp 1927 carried his first chainsaw up Mount Dolmar, the sawmill has written a unique success story. Today the company belongs to the renowned Japanese Makita Group. And with that, new production conditions have also found their way into Hamburg-Jenfeld.
Local semester. Who enters the Dolmar factory halls for the first time, instinctively misses something: the noise, the assembly lines, the dirt, the restlessness. Instead, there is almost something like cosiness in the bright halls: Sitting areas with blue carpeting, muffled noises, no trace of hectic. above the area, where the one millionth saw is assembled, hangs a sign "16/15" – This is the "Hobby Group" cost center: This is where the Dolmar hobby saws are made.
"Our working groups work completely independently and on their own responsibility," reports Meister („Team-Koordinator“) Michael Krecker. Everyone in the team builds their own saw, from the first to the last touch. Even functional testing and packaging take place in the group. Up to 27 A professional builds machines in one shift, concentrated, but without stress. Many work half their working life in one of the ten groups. "The mood and the salary are good", heard.
In the specifications of the plan, the Dolmar workers are free to organize their time. When they their 7,25 work hours a day, is up to them. By midday, the millionth has been built. A case for the museum? "Not at all!“ says Marketing Manager Jörg Niermann. "It goes on sale quite normally." At Dolmar, the superlative is also a normal case.