Girls’ & Boys’ Day at Quarzwerke

Or: How to tell that raw materials have nothing to do with gender roles.

There are days when you realize just how quickly stereotypes become outdated.
Take Girls’ & Boys’ Day at Quarzwerke, for example.

At three different locations, students asked questions, tried things out, and marveled—and in the process discovered that raw material extraction is much more than just “excavators and sand.” (Although, of course, there were excavators there too.)

At Quarzwerke Weferlingen, the tour covered everything from the initial welcome to quartz sand, its properties, and applications, right through to hands-on activities at the plant and in the open-pit mine. It included safety briefings, small experiments, and conversations with our trainees—and the realization that technology can be quite exciting when you get to experience it firsthand.

In Gambach, too, there were plenty of impressions of our company—and, as expected, plenty of that sandy vibe.

And in Frechen? There, they got a broad taste of everything: IT, the production of high-performance fillers, electrical engineering, procurement—and yes, even corporate communications. Because raw materials deserve to be talked about, too. And preferably in a positive light.

Thank you to all my colleagues who made this day possible.
And to the young people who showed that the future needs one thing above all else: curiosity.