Headquartered in Uzwil, Bühler offers some 400 apprenticeships group-wide for training young people in commercial or technical vocations, of which 290 in Switzerland. In order to ensure the permanent availability of an adequate pool of qualified specialists, and to offer young local people a better opportunity to enter the labor market, the apprenticeship training program based on the Swiss model is also implemented in the affiliated companies in Germany, India, China, South America, and Africa. 

Bühler’s Global HR Head will present this exciting program that has been running for 10 years. He is accompanied by 2 apprentices who will personally report on their experiences, challenges and rewards they encountered when being posted to a Bühler location in a different country to complete a project assignment.

About Bühler:

Bühler is a globally active Swiss family-owned company with its Head office in Uzwil, Switzerland. Every day, billions of people use Bühler technologies and solutions to satisfy their basic needs for food, mobility, or communication. The company holds globally leading market positions in technologies and methods for processing grain into flour and feed, as well as for the production of pasta and chocolate, in die casting, wet grinding and surface coating. The company's core technologies are in the areas of mechanical and thermal process engineering.

As a leading technology group, Bühler invests up to 5% of its turnover every year in research and development. In 2017, around 11,000 employees in over 140 countries generated a turnover of CHF 2.7 billion. In the beginning of 2018 Bühler acquired the Vienna based family company Haas which is a leading manufacturer in the biscuits and wafers market adding additional turnover in the magnitude of CHF 350 Mio.