Merry Christmas 2025 from Team RM

Christ­mas is just around the cor­ner, and at this time of year many peo­ple take a moment to reflect on the past twelve months.

Togeth­er with you, we have achieved a great deal over the last year, and we would like to thank you from the bot­tom of our hearts for the pos­i­tive, trust­ing and suc­cess­ful coop­er­a­tion through­out 2025.
It is this spe­cial way of work­ing togeth­er that has made such a suc­cess­ful year pos­si­ble in the first place.

We would now like to car­ry the spir­it of our shared efforts for­ward into the new year 2026. Togeth­er with you, we want to make the com­ing year a suc­cess as well.

We are very much look­ing for­ward to this con­tin­ued coop­er­a­tion, and we firm­ly believe that we will meet future chal­lenges togeth­er in a strong, sus­tain­able way.
Because we know that the chal­lenges ahead of us are best solved through col­lab­o­ra­tion and joint effort.

Christ­mas is also always a time for sto­ries. That is why we would like to share a sto­ry from the
RM Christ­mas world with you.
But before we begin, there is some­thing close to our hearts: chil­dren, too, love sto­ries and lis­ten to them with shin­ing eyes. Sad­ly, many chil­dren are not able to afford books—and what is even worse, many are not even able to attend school or gain access to edu­ca­tion. For this rea­son, we main­tain the tra­di­tion of sup­port­ing chil­dren in need at Christ­mas time. Once again this year, our Christ­mas dona­tion is going to the Montes­sori School in Nepal, led by Basudev Kafle.

And now, let us final­ly begin with the sto­ry from the RM Christ­mas world:

The Christ­mas Mir­a­cle Behind the Stor­age Shelves

Once upon a time, at Christmas.

Late at night, it was dark and qui­et at RM. Every­one had gone home. But in a hid­den, silent cor­ner of the basement—tucked away between shelves filled with tita­ni­um, iron and steel bars, between blocks of cop­per and left­over alu­mini­um, between racks of spe­cial parts and bar­rels filled with sand, cop­per waste and met­al shavings—eRMil dis­cov­ered an old met­al gramophone.
Next to it lay a shel­lac record, cov­ered in dust and light­ly scratched. It looked as though no one had touched it for decades.

“That would be a won­der­ful Christ­mas sur­prise,” eRMil thought to him­self with a qui­et smile, and full of enthu­si­asm he set about bring­ing the old device back to life.

Those who know RM well are aware of this: eRMil is the longest-serv­ing employ­ee at RM, the company’s good spirit—never in the spot­light, yet some­how always there.

No mat­ter how much eRMil screwed, filed and ham­mered, sweat soon poured from every pore. Every­thing that could go wrong did go wrong. The horn arm broke off, the cas­ing fell apart at the slight­est touch, and the screws crum­bled because they were com­plete­ly rusted.
Still, eRMil car­ried on brave­ly, hour after hour. By now it was almost morn­ing. His eyes kept clos­ing with exhaus­tion, but each time he forced them open again and worked on with determination—after all, he want­ed to fin­ish the surprise.

Even­tu­al­ly, exhaust­ed, he fell asleep between tools and met­al shavings.

In the morn­ing, the first employ­ees arrived at the work­shop and were aston­ished to find a sleep­ing eRMil next to the half-fin­ished gramo­phone parts. When they realised what he had been try­ing to accom­plish, they exchanged a brief glance—and with­out many words, they got to work.
They milled, turned, weld­ed, pol­ished and rebuilt the old gramo­phone piece by piece. Every­one con­tributed their skills, and togeth­er they com­plet­ed what one per­son alone had not been able to achieve.

When eRMil final­ly awoke, the gramo­phone stood in front of him, gleam­ing like new and ready to play. Deeply moved, he placed the old shel­lac record onto it.
A long-for­got­ten RM song filled the room—at first cau­tious­ly, then crack­ling, sur­pris­ing­ly live­ly and rock­ing, just like in the old days. Sud­den­ly, every­thing felt a lit­tle lighter, because work­ing to music is sim­ply better.

And per­haps that is our small Christ­mas mir­a­cle behind the stor­age shelf:
when every­one con­tributes what they can, some­thing is cre­at­ed that is greater than the sum of its parts.

This is exact­ly how we expe­ri­enced the past year with you. And for that, we would like to thank all our cus­tomers and partners—for the won­der­ful coop­er­a­tion, the trust and every­thing we have achieved together.

We wish you all a relaxed, musi­cal and joy­ful Christ­mas sea­son, and a won­der­ful start to the new year 2026.

And … we are cer­tain that eRMil would be delight­ed if you were to scan or click on the QR code below—so that togeth­er, accom­pa­nied by this long-for­got­ten RM song, we can bring a lit­tle good cheer into the final work­ing days of the year and into the new year ahead.

With warm Christ­mas greetings
The RM team