Business View Magazine | September 2019

65 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2019 price between electric and conventional vehicles will fade, which will favor conventional cars being displaced from the market by electric vehicles thanks to lower operating costs of the latter. EVs have the potential to disrupt the automotive market while paving the way for increased energy security and an eco-friendly, low-emission future. Boeckenhauer notes that, for now, the Group has no further plans to expand its geographical footprint. “At this point in time, we’re pretty well set as far as expansion goes. But, because we are in the U.S., we need to emphasize that this market had the largest share in the sales of the Seco/ Warwick Group and accounted for 38 percent of the Group’s total sales. At the same time, sales in the U.S. market increased by 29 percent in 2018, compared to 2017. For decades, Seco/Warwick has played a fundamental role in the evolution of technologies, providing its customers with the finest system value and professional technical services, keeping equipment online, and operating efficiently. The Group has won many awards over the years for innovation in furnace design and operation, as well as a growing number of patents. “We’ve been in business for many, many years, and as far as processes go, we’ve pretty much seen everything,” Boeckenhauer says, in conclusion. “60 percent of our employees are engineers, so we have the engineering background to customize any furnace design that we have world-wide, and we can customize equipment to do the specific things that a customer wants.” THE SECO/WARWI CK GROUP - NORTH AMER I CA