On Saturday 18th March Inalfa will host “Kies Techniek” at its headquarters in Venray. During this day approximately 30 technical companies from the area will present their companies to children from primary schools that need to think about their future profession. Different kinds of companies – from construction to metal industry to ICT, automotive and others – show the children in a creative and educational way the interesting part of their line of industry.

The organization of “Kies Techniek” has been promoting the technical industry and education already for many years in the Netherlands. This event is organized throughout the country at different locations with the same purpose.

Inalfa is always looking for new talent and by promoting the business already at an early stage, children get motivated to choose a certain direction for their future education.

Not only children from primary schools are welcome this day; everybody who is interested to learn more about Inalfa is welcome to join. Our doors are open from 11.00 till 16.00 hrs.

 

The trainees recently completed our 3 month Academy training program in Venray and to date, they are the most international group, with trainees from China, Korea, Netherlands, Poland, Mexico and USA.

After 12 weeks of workshops, full of theory & practice (Learning by Doing), reflecting & networking, the trainees have gained significant knowledge, skills and behavioral understanding to bring back into the real world workplace.

The Academy staff would like to congratulate the trainees for their hard work / dedication to learning and would like to thank all the Inalfa Specialists who supported the design and delivery of the training program modules.

In 2017, the Academy direction is re-focused to deliver many workshops to our R&D and Operations teams around the world and also to develop several training programs for specific functional and leadership areas.

After 50 years of employment with Inalfa, Tini Nabuurs retired at the end of 2016.

Tini joined Inalfa in 1966 as Trainee Tool Producer, after which he quickly grew in various positions. Tini was one of the designers and developers of the first Inalfa sunroof in the early seventies, when Inalfa (as a metal forming company) had to look for new opportunities in the market. When Tini joined Inalfa, the company’s core business was aluminum fabricates and oil heaters. Through the years Inalfa changed its products more towards the copying and automotive industries.

Tini was very engaged in setting up the R&D organization with Inalfa that has grown to a worldwide team of more than 400 engineers in the meantime. In his final years with Inalfa, Tini was bringing all the knowledge of our roof systems to the next level generation by chairing the Inalfa Academy as member of the International Management Team.

 

 

 

On November 3rd Inalfa Roof Systems has signed the new collaboration agreement with ACE and confirmed her commitment for the next 3 years. Inalfa is one of the leading automotive companies who will be intensifying the cooperation with ACE and the automotive academies in the coming years. Because of the improving economy and the turbulent developments in the automotive sector, there is a continuous growing need for automotive engineers. Together with 3 automotive academies, companies are restarting the cooperation with the aim to educate more and better students, improve education and reinforce research.

Other leading companies already took this step:
Arval, Bosch Transmission Technology, DAF Trucks, Hyster-Yale, Mitsubishi Turbocharger and Engine Europe, Nooteboom Trailers, Pon, Sensata and the VDL groep have extended their partnership in 2016 as well. Also new partners such as Punch Powertrain, Valeo, VB-Airsuspension and B-style have a close collaboration via ACE in terms of the automotive education. The current number of ACE preferred partners is now 14.

Because of the improving economy and the turbulent developments in the automotive sector, there is a continuous growing need for automotive engineers. This does not only relate to the complexity of cars itself, but also the link between the cars, the connection between cars and their environment and finally because of the ongoing pressure to produce in a cost efficient manner. This all leads to the situation that the need for this type of engineers stays high. The industry needs more automotive engineers who are capable of understanding and interpreting the complex challenges in the area of concepts of transportation, sustainability and technology. As well as engineers who are capable of working in teams with other professionals to come to professional solutions.

ACE is a partnership of 3 Dutch automotive academies (Hogeschool Arnhem/Nijmegen, Fontys Hogescholen en Hogeschool Rotterdam) working together with the business. The mutual aim is the following: more and better students, better education and knowledge development by means of research. ACE has the goal to create synergy in the area of the quality of education, structural cooperation with the business, integration of business assignments within the institute of education, talent program, improvement of inflow, reduction of students ceasing their education and creating of new research activities.
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The National Career Fair is the biggest career event of the top companies in the Netherlands. Get acquainted with the best employers of the Netherlands and follow one of the many career and/ or professional workshops. Inalfa will be present with a stand in salon 2.