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PÔLE MOTEURS INDUSTRIELS promotes employee loyalty and raises customer awareness on savings

1. Organizational Governance

Strategy and organization

Context

Located in Calais (62 - France), Pôle Moteurs Industriels (PMI) repairs and rewinds electrical motors. For about a decade, this sector has been hit by stiff competition. It is a labor-intensive industry that requires real expertise acquired through long years of experience in the field. To ensure its viability, PMI launched a Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility initiative.

Objectives

  • Ensure the long-term viability of the activity of the enterprise
  • Give impetus to social policy
  • Innovate to remain competitive
  • Limit the environmental impact of its activity

APPROACH

Observations:
-    The repair of electric motors is subject to the general decline in industrial activity and competition from the emerging countries
-    The increase in energy costs at customers
-    PMI expertise and experience in rotational machines

To ensure the loyalty of its 12 employees, PMI developed an attractive social policy:
- Hiring of the unemployed, and extensive training
- An attractive salary policy in the top tier of the profession
- Numerous social benefits: restaurant vouchers, complementary insurance, enterprise savings plan, bonus scheme.

To ensure the viability of its activity, PMI decided to diversify its offer and innovate in new sectors in order to remain competitive:
-    Energy diagnosis free of charge
-    Choice with the client of the most energy-efficient technical solution
-    Supply, installation, startup and measuring for validation of gains.

CONTRIBUTION TO COMPANY PERFORMANCE

Return on investment less than 24 months

Sustainability of the workshop activity and growth in revenues :

  • +20% between 2009 and 2010
  • +10% in 2011 on 5 months

Benefits

  • A team motivated and available 24h/24
  • Long-term employment
  • Agreement with EDF to obtain CO2 certificates
  • Certification for Expertise en Energy Efficiency for rotating machines
  • Eco-Responsible Maintenance label
Workforce
12
Turnover
2 M€
Country
France

POLE MOTEURS INDUSTRIELS

19 rue de Moscou
62100 CALAIS

Contact

Christian VANDENBOSSCHE, Gérant, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Mise à jour le 28/06/2016

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