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TELEGRAM NEWS-TICKER DEATH OF WALTER KRONE Walter Krone died at the beginning of 2021 following a long illness. He was 79 years old. As managing director of Krone-Großhandel from 1977 to 2001 he contributed greatly to this organisation’s outstanding development by concentrating on the exclusive sale of some premium machinery makes. CORONA COSTS … … of 3 m € appear in the Krone Group accounts after a year of pandemic. Material expenses for masks, disinfectants, etc. up to the end of March ran to approx. 1 m €. To this came personnel costs for items such as organisation and prevention measures that added a further 2 m €. PRIZE-WINNING NET CHUTE A special SIMA award in 2021 for Krone: the net chute offered by Krone for its Vari- Pack and VariPack Plus models received a prize in the category “health and safety in the workplace”. The chute permits the net to be easily and rapidly put in place without any heavy lifting. KRONECTED LIVE Krone presents interesting forage harvesting themes with the new video format Kronected Live, broadcast 13 times on Tuesday evenings over the Krone YouTube channel. All episodes in the series are also available under www.krone.de/live FREE TESTING Detailed analyses of machinery data as well as data sharing between different makes – the functions are now enabled by Krone Smart Telematics and the universal agrirouter data hub. These tools come from Krone currently as cost-free data management package for the Krone SmartConnect telemetric unit. TENANT CHANGE After 30 years in charge at restaurant “Haus Krone”, tenants Dieter and Carmen Brodatzki left as planned at the end of June for their well-deserved retiral. A new tenant is already preparing to take over; more information follows in your next XtraBlatt. 36
NEW MARKETING MANAGER At the beginning of March, Markus Steinwendner took over as manager of the Maschinenfabrik Krone marketing department. The 37-year-old from an agricultural contractor family was member of the Krone marketing department in Austria since 2011. ONLINE MACHINERY TRAINING Because the corona pandemic led to the cancellation of numerous obligatory face-toface training sessions in Spelle, Krone built a film studio in its Training Center from where continuous schooling is now conducted via streaming. The participant record so far: more than 100 trainees from 16 nations instructed simultaneously! SUCCESSFUL TRAINEES In the first half of 2021, a total 38 trainees and dual students in the Krone Maschinenfabrik successfully completed their training. Those interested in undergoing training with Krone can find useful information under: https://gruppe.krone.de/karriere SEEKING SUBJECTS The search is on for dramatic pictures of Krone machinery at work. The company wants them for 2022 Krone calendar motives. Want to know more? Access: www. landmaschinen.krone.de/kalender2022 YEAR-ROUND OPERATION Right on time for the main maize harvest, numerous BiG X harvesters arrived in Brazil as seen below on the quayside of Paranaguá. The BiG X models will mainly be put to work in maize, but also in crops of tropical grasses and in sugar cane. This multi-crop flexibility allows the BiG machines to chop around the clock throughout the year. 40 CCI MEMBERS The number of members in the Competence Center ISOBUS e. V. (CCI) continues to increase. With SIP Strojna Industrija D.D. and Streumaster Maschinenbau GmbH joining, there are now 40 firms active under the CCI roof. Grounded in 2009, the CCI includes Krone amongst its founding members. 37
