FDP leader Christian Lindner visits Hagedorn Group and Schüttflix Group

Before his appearance at the Gütersloh City Hall, Christian Lindner visited Hagedorn and SCHÜTTFLIX to find out about the situation in the construction industry – and praised their commitment to sustainable and digital transformation.
 

As part of his election campaign tour, the FDP's top candidate and party leader Christian Lindner visited the Hagedorn Group in Gütersloh City Hall to see for himself how recycling management and digitisation are being implemented in the construction sector. Thomas Hagedorn, founder and managing partner of the group, welcomed the politician with some of his employees. Together they presented the company – and also formulated future-oriented messages from the construction industry to politicians.

Among other things, the agenda for the meeting included a tour of the Gütersloh recycling centre, which is now part of the SCHÜTTFLIX GROUP. Plant manager Stefan Siemann showed Christian Lindner's team the 50,000-square-metre facility at the Hagedorn headquarters and explained how mobile crushers are used to process construction waste into high-quality recycled material. The programme also included a tour of the company's own workshop and a presentation on the now everyday use of digital tools and artificial intelligence in the group of companies.

‘We would like to thank the FDP leader Christian Lindner for his visit to the Hagedorn Group. His plans to get Germany's economy, and in particular the construction industry, back on track by reducing bureaucracy and eliminating unnecessary, time-consuming regulations, are more than overdue! Germany needs a quick and clear roadmap so that medium-sized companies can finally become the focus of German economic policy again. That's why I would like to see a strong FDP as a coalition partner at the side of the CDU,’ says Thomas Hagedorn.

Lindner pays tribute to the circular economy in practice at Hagedorn

FDP leader Christian Lindner, who in the current debate is emphasising above all the need to strengthen the German economy, was enthusiastic about the Gütersloh-based group of companies: ’At the many stops on my election campaign, I meet a wide range of people and companies. What particularly impressed me today during my visit to the Hagedorn Group was the active change towards more sustainability and digitalisation in one of the most resource-intensive industries. Seeing on site how a genuine circular economy can work, how material obtained from dismantling is reprocessed and fed into a higher-level use, shows me that this is the right and forward-looking path that we in politics must support with all our might.’