When the saws and milling machines at Alno AG and its successor company had been idle for a few days in October 2021, the works council head of the traditional kitchen manufacturer did what she had always done all these years. She pitched in when there was something to be done. At the main gate in Pfullendorf, Baden, she was met by an old woman from the Swabian town of Gammertingen, who had not noticed anything about the company's long decline, the ups and downs, the bankruptcy, the restart and the repeated bankruptcy, and who gave her Alno a hanger for the trash can -Kitchen needed.
