The initiative for the meeting on 28 June 2024 came from ZVO 2.0, the organization of young entrepreneurs within the ZVO, and Martin Müller, Aurolia. The delegation participants were received in the Bundestag by the FDP working group "Mittelstand und Handwerk", as well as by Dr. Henning Wins and Christiane von Trotha, two representatives of the Federal Ministry of Economics (BMWK).
Key sector electroplating
ZVO CEO Jörg Püttbach and Lukas Henningsen from ZVO 2.0 explained in a presentation that electroplating is the key industry for all megatrends of the future. Püttbach described his view of Germany as a business location from an entrepreneurial perspective and the real impact of EU bureaucracy and regulations such as IED 2.0, BREF and REACH on jobs. ZVO 2.0 also showed a self-produced video.
Danger of overregulation
In the discussion, Henningsen made it clear how much the member companies of the ZVO and their skilled workers are being held back by over-regulation and that Germany is becoming massively less attractive as a business location - even though local electroplating technology is indispensable for the megatrends and the associated supply chains.
Participants of the meeting
ZVO CEO Jörg Püttbach, Lukas Henningsen, Caroline Hehl, Jan Zeschky, Henri Holder, Patrik Schmalriede and Andreas Scholz from ZVO 2.0 took part in the meeting on behalf of ZVO. On the part of the FDP parliamentary group, Manfred Todtenhausen (MDB), Gerald Ullrich (MDB), Carl-Julius Cronenberg (MDB), Friedhelm Boginski (MDB) and Nicole Bauer (MDB), as well as Dr. Henning Wins and Christiane von Trotha (BMWK).