Blickle wheels + castors
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| legal form | GmbH u. Co. KG |
| founding | 1953 |
| Seat | Rosenfeld , Germany |
| management | Reinhold Blickle, Denise Blickle, Walter Wager, Sarah Blickle-Fenner, David Blickle |
| Number of employees | approx. 1,000 worldwide |
| sales | EUR 200 million (2017) |
| Branch | Wheel and castor manufacturer |
| Website | www.blickle.com |
The Blickle GmbH u. Co. KG is a German manufacturer of wheels and castors. The company currently employs more than 1,000 people worldwide, more than 750 of them at the headquarters in Rosenfeld in the Zollernalb district in Baden-Württemberg .
history
The company was founded in 1953 when Wilhelm Sülzle split his hardware factory into three independent companies among his sons and son-in-law Heinrich Blickle. The newly founded company Blickle continued the production of the iron wheelbarrow wheels and developed a range of wheels, swivel castors and fixed castors from them. After the death of the company founder Heinrich Blickle, his wife Elisabeth Blickle took over the management in 1961. The first international Blickle sales company was founded in Switzerland in 1967 .
In 1972, a new administration and production building was built in the Rosenfeld industrial area, where the company's headquarters are still located today. In 1977, Reinhold Blickle, the oldest son of the company founder and thus the second generation, joined the company. In the early 1980s the administration building was expanded. In 1992 Blickle took over the production area “apparatus rollers” from the company Hülsbeck & Fürst in Velbert . In 1998 Blickle started manufacturing polyurethane wheels .
In the course of further growth, the new administration building was completed and occupied in 2002. In 2006 a new branch of production emerged with participation in a plastic injection molding company and the foundation of the company BW-Plast GmbH. The company was integrated directly at the Rosenfeld location . In 2010 Blickle invested in a logistics center with an automatic high-bay and small parts warehouse. The Blickle Vertriebsgesellschaft was founded in Taicang , China , three years later . In 2014 Blickle took over the Swiss reel manufacturer Progressus AG. A year later, a third high-bay warehouse with a height of 40 meters was built at the headquarters in Rosenfeld . Sarah Blickle-Fenner and David Blickle, the third generation, have been active in the company since 2017.
In the last few decades the family company has developed into one of the world's leading manufacturers of wheels and castors.
Products
The product portfolio includes more than 30,000 different types of wheels and castors in the load capacity range from 20 kilograms to 50 tons. Blickle also offers individual special solutions. In addition to the existing standard range, Blickle also offers electric drive systems from the ErgoMove series.
Blickle wheels and castors are used in almost all industries worldwide . The areas of application include, for example, intralogistics , conveyor technology , plant and mechanical engineering , the food industry and medical technology .
Locations
In addition to the headquarters in Rosenfeld, Blickle has 18 sales companies of its own in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia and exports to over 120 countries worldwide. The production is exclusively at the headquarters in Rosenfeld.
Web links
- Literature by and about Blickle wheels + roles in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Blickle Germany website
- Website of the Blickle Group
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint blickle.de
- ↑ World market leader index. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
- ^ The Blickle company. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Reinhold Blickle turns 70: a visionary with a heart for Rosenfeld. December 8, 2018, accessed December 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Blickle Wheels + Castors integrates BW-Plast as a new production area. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
- ↑ 5 years Blickle China. October 29, 2018, accessed December 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Blickle in Rosenfeld takes over business from Progressus. July 17, 2014, accessed December 11, 2019 .
- ↑ These are the German world market leaders. October 14, 2019, accessed December 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Blickle gets the world moving! blickle.de
- ↑ Global presence - Blickle wheels and castors worldwide blickle.de