After his apprenticeship as a Model builder mechanic, Robert Krautz completed his industrial foreman training specializing in foundry technology. Robert’s German foundry experience began in the area of hand-mold casting, which prepared him well for a transition into sales. From 2011 – 2014, he was employed as a sales representative for an established castings and steel trading company. Robert’s career progressed further into technical field service with a well known foundry products supplier. In 2021, Robert Krautz joined the GTP Schäfer team as a foundry technical application consultant.
After serving an apprenticeship as a foundry mechanic focusing on the production and techniques of hand-molding, Tobias Hesse finished his training to qualify as a master of foundry technology. At the time he was working in a German foundry, where he was responsible for improving productivity and reducing the defect quota of hand-molded castings up to 12 tonnes. He then worked as the manager of a Swiss hand-molding foundry for two years before joining GTP Schäfer in 2013.
