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Glassbau Hahn is a glassmaking factory in Frankfurt in Germany.

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Till Hahn is its director.

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Our company has been based from the very start always in Frankfurt am Main.

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Originally we had been more in the center of the city, but during World War II Frankfurt

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was heavily bombed and then we moved out a bit towards the east and this is where we

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are and where we feel very happy.

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We can trace our company back to 1836.

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That's when my great-grandfather came to Frankfurt as a glazier and he married a widow who had

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been in the glass business already before and ever since it's in the hands of the Hahns.

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Our company can be divided in three sections.

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The original one was strictly the glass business, windows, storefronts, glass doors and so on.

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The second one is louver windows, a special window for ventilation.

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Perhaps the most glamorous part of our business is display cases, museum equipment.

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Who are your clients?

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Well, when I talk about display cases, our clients certainly are museums.

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Museums all around the world.

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After England we were brave enough to expand into the United States.

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That was my special effort for the company, which has turned out very well and now we

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are doing business with most places on earth.

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We have, I think, six offices for representing us, spread around.

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How many employees do you have?

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In Frankfurt we have about 120 employees.

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There are about another 35 in Stockstadt who are doing the louver window business.

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And then we have about another 15 people in our various offices in Japan, in Tokyo, in

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China, the United States and in England.

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Who are your competitors?

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There had been some glorious times in the past where we didn't have any competition.

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That was in 1935 when my father invented the first all-glass construction, meaning the

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bonding of glass to glass without intermediate framing.

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Then it was back in 1970 where competitors became more apparent and they are not so much

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in Germany, but rather one of the competitors is based in Italy, one is in England.

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And we always meet when there is an international bidding to do.

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And usually we are the most expensive one, but fortunately our clients nevertheless rank

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quality highest and the price tag is not the only decision factor.

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Otherwise it would be to our disadvantage.

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Our markets where we are very successful outside of England and America is lately especially

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Japan, very important, China and even Egypt.