Bühler opens Energy Center

The Bühler Technology Group has made caring for its employees a top priority. The Energy Center continues this tradition. After all, in recent years, the demands placed on companies and their employees have increased significantly in many respects. There is general agreement on this, and probably also on the fact that positive energy and knowledge are crucial resources and form the basis for well-being, performance and resilience. These factors have a significant impact on creativity and innovation, and are also important for maintaining business continuity, especially under difficult or changing conditions. Bühler's intention is therefore to invest in a "healthy cycle", because if the employees are doing well, the company will also do well, he is convinced. Coping with the Corona pandemic was just the tip of the iceberg in an increasingly volatile environment. Issues such as personal responsibility, training and development, health management and innovation have taken on even greater significance.

Three supporting pillars

With the Energy Center and its three areas Health & Lifestyle (health management), Lifelong Learning (vocational and adult education), and Prototyping & Production, Bühler is making targeted investments in important future fields. Long-standing traditions of the company would be reinterpreted to create positive perspectives - both for the employees and for the company.

The Health Port offers employees various options for taking care of their health and well-being in addition to primary care and medical care for travel. In addition to lifestyle check-ups or nutritional counseling, there are also offerings that cover the areas of health literacy, fitness, physiotherapy, mental health and relaxation.

Vocational training and adult education reflect other important components of Bühler's corporate culture. In the new premises and through state-of-the-art methods, they are raised to a new level. Apprentices are prepared for the professional world of tomorrow and beyond. Furthermore, all employees have access to customized modules for lifelong learning in order to specifically develop their skills in their active professional lives.

The Prototyping & Production area ensures professional collaboration between the development departments and builds bridges to the Application & Training Centers and Production. As a result, learners from production and product-oriented professions benefit significantly more from a high level of practical relevance and the enormous knowledge of several generations of experts who work together directly here and learn from each other.

Shaping the future 

"The demands on employees in an increasingly complex and dynamic world are very high, and we are well aware of this," says Stefan Scheiber, CEO of Bühler Group. "This makes it all the more important for us to promote the competencies as well as the personal responsibility of our employees. People are at the center here. The Energy Center is made for our employees - young and old - as well as for the employees of our partners as well as our customers." "With the Energy Center, we support our employees to better master their professional as well as private challenges along their life phases currently and in the future - therefore we encourage them: Make di fit!" adds Christof Oswald, Project Manager Bühler Energy Center and Head of Human Resources Switzerland.

The building, whose construction started in November 2021, is located at the interface of Bühler's Application & Training Center, CUBIC, and Production and is thus part of the Bühler Innovation Campus. It exudes openness and combines sustainability, modernity, and vision in equal measure; interior spaces can be flexibly designed to meet both current and future needs. "The most resource-conserving and sustainable implementation possible included, for example, the reuse of concrete from the previous building and the use of low-CO2 cement, and the support structure of the office section was realized entirely in wood," explains Elvis Pidic, architect and Head of Corporate Real Estate Management at Bühler.

Source and further information: Buhler AG