Save an bancrupt corporate? Jens te Kaat dares – taking a dangerous wager on an innovation that are supposed to even lend a hand the local weather. Now he wishes buyers to make it paintings.
Shut article from ZEIT for marketers Printed in ZEIT for marketers no. 4/2025 Shut article abstract
Jens te Kaat fights towards insolvency and for innovation with Kueppers Answers. In spite of the setbacks, he’s banking on 3-d printing to revolutionize business burners. His tale displays the demanding situations of medium-sized companies in instances of accelerating illiquidity. With a brand new form of burner and his personal printer, he fights for the way forward for his corporate. In spite of any other chapter, Te Kaat believes in advertising its energy-efficient burners across the world.
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Entrepreneur Jens te Kat and his cutting edge business burner © German Long term Prize
Each morning on his option to paintings, Jens te Kat passes Germany’s previous as a location: an deserted metal mill within the Dortmund Generation Park looms rust-brown in entrance of him. The previous manufacturing facility reminds the 59-year-old of his youth, when the Ruhr area was once nonetheless the guts of a booming coal and metal trade. Then he strikes on, in opposition to the longer term: Lower than 100 meters from the previous blast furnaces, in Te Kaat’s manufacturing corridor, there’s a field the scale of a transport container into which an business burner has been put in layer via layer with a low hum. The entrepreneur smiles and says, “We are the loopy ones with 3-d printing.
