Hansa-Flex

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Hansa-Flex AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 1962
Seat Bremen , Germany
management
  • Board of Directors: Thomas Armerding,
    Uwe Buschmann,
    Christian-Hans Bültemeier
  • Supervisory board: Tim Hollweg (chairman)
Number of employees 3,861 (2017)
sales EUR 465 million
(2017, unconsolidated)
Branch Mechanical engineering in the field of hydraulics
Website www.hansa-flex.com

The Hansa-Flex AG is a German industrial company in fluid technology , headquartered in Bremen , focused on the development and manufacture of hydraulic is specialized components, and related services.

history

Headquarters of the company in Bremen- Mahndorf

Joachim Armerding (1935–2015) founded the company in 1962 as a one-man operation in Achim near Bremen. Under the company name Joachim Armerding Industriebedarf , he initially specialized in the assembly of hose lines and established himself in the growing market for hydraulic hoses.

In 1965 Armerding moved into a former plumbing shop in Bremen and hired his first employee. In 1969 Günter Buschmann - a long-time colleague and friend of Armerding's - became a partner in the company. He ran the second branch in Osnabrück . In the same year the company name was changed to Hansa-Flex . In the 1970s and 1980s, other people joined the company as shareholders.

By the end of 1988 the number of branches was 21. In 1989 the company opened its first foreign branch in Elst, the Netherlands . After the reunification in the GDR and the political upheaval in East Central Europe , Hansa-Flex established itself in the new federal states as well as in Poland and the Czech Republic . In 1990 around 250 employees worked for the company, and the annual turnover was 50 million DM .

In 1995 Thomas Armerding and Uwe Buschmann, the sons of the company's founders, joined the management of Hansa-Flex and gradually took over the business. The first office outside Europe in 1997 in Turkish İskenderun opened in 1999 originated in Billings in the US and in Brazil Blumenau , the first company branches in the Americas.

In 1998 the company began expanding its spare parts business by developing into a system provider in the hydraulics sector. For this purpose, a pipe bending center was built in Schönebeck in Saxony-Anhalt . In 2001 the areas for cylinder repair (in Königshofen / Thuringia ), sealing technology (in Eisenberg / Thuringia) and hydraulic components (in Dresden / Saxony ) were created. From 2003, the engineering and unit construction division made it possible to design and manufacture complex hydraulic units.

The spare parts area was expanded in 2001 with the introduction of a mobile hydraulic emergency service in order to be able to provide on-site help quickly in the event of machine failures. The introduction of an alphanumeric coding (2004), with which all product features of hydraulic connecting elements have been recorded since then (X-Code) , accelerated the replacement of defective hoses and the error resistance in ordering. In 2012, the company concentrated its hose series production, which had previously been spread over various parts of the company, at its Bremen location.

In 2010, the GmbH structure was given up in favor of the organization as a stock corporation (AG) - Hansa-Flex AG emerged from Hansa-Flex Hydraulik GmbH . The shares in the unlisted AG have remained with the founding families since then.

The company achieved a turnover of over 300 million euros in the 2011 financial year and at the beginning of 2012 employed more than 3,000 people worldwide for the first time, of which around 1,750 were employees in Germany and over 1,250 in the foreign companies.

The company took over a provider in Portugal in 2016 and opened a foreign subsidiary in Great Britain .

As of December 31, 2017, Hansa-Flex had 422 branches in 42 countries and a consolidated group turnover of 400 million euros .

Business profile

The company is currently (March 2019) divided into the following business areas:

  • Hydraulic hoses
  • Metal hoses
  • Tube bending center
  • Hydraulic immediate service
  • Hydraulic components
  • Sealing technology
  • Willmann control technology
  • Skodock GmbH - flexible pipe elements
  • Hy-Lok Vertriebs GmbH

Currently (March 2019) Hansa-Flex is represented worldwide with a total of 433 branches, 191 of them are in Germany .

According to its own information, Hansa-Flex offers around 100,000 articles and counts over 150,000 companies among its active customers worldwide. Most of them come from the construction industry , mechanical engineering , plant engineering and vehicle construction .

sales

In the last five reporting years, the company increased its sales from EUR 380 million to EUR 465 million:

Sales development (in million euros)
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Germany 240 251 254 263 279
International 140 156 164 169 186
Together 380 407 418 432 465

Sales in 2017 were broken down by region as follows:

Sales 2017
region in € million in %
Germany 279.2 59.9
Europe 136.2 29.2
America 18.3 3.9
China 13.1 2.8
Asia Pacific excluding China 10.6 2.3
Africa 6.4 1.4
Russia 2.3 0.5

Awards and social commitment

In 1990, company founder Joachim Armerding was named Entrepreneur of the Year for his life's work by the Working Group of Self-employed Entrepreneurs (ASU) and the Federal Association of Young Entrepreneurs .

In December 2012, Joachim Armerding set up the Hansa-Flex Foundation . It was endowed with a foundation capital of one million euros and is active in the field of training and further education. Among other things, it supports the endowed professorship at the Hydraulics Competence Center at the Ulm University of Applied Sciences .

In 2017, the company donated a total of 55,000 euros to three non-profit organizations : Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association (BORDA), Engineers Without Borders and Viva con Agua .

Publications

In addition to the German-English customer magazine Hydraulikpresse , which appears regularly , the company has so far published two specialist books:

  • Coaching team of the Hansa-Flex training center (author); Hansa-Flex Hydraulik GmbH (ed.): Fundamentals of fluid technology. Training book for the courses in fluid technology from Hansa-Flex Hydraulik GmbH. 2nd Edition. Hansa-Flex Hydraulik GmbH, Bremen 2005, DNB 979249961 .
  • Helmut Wetteborn (author); Hansa-Flex Hydraulik GmbH (Ed.): Hydraulic line technology. A practical guide. 1st edition. Hansa-Flex Hydraulik GmbH, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88808-703-5 .

literature

  • Edgar K. Geffroy : Example 4: Hansa-Flex Hydraulik GmbH. Customer orientation is more than a word. In: Ders .: The only thing that bothers is the customer. Clienting replaces marketing. 16th, completely revised edition. Redline Wirtschaft, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-636-03030-2 , pp. 93-94 ( excerpt from Google Books ).
  • Dieter Will, Norbert Gebhardt (Ed.): Hydraulics. Basics, components, systems. 6th edition. Springer, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-662-44401-6 , pp. 221, 224-225, 380, 392-396.

Web links

Commons : Hansa-Flex  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to information on the board of directors on the company's website; Retrieved July 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ Imprint of the company website . Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c d Hansa-Flex AG: Annual Report 2017. (pdf) Accessed March 20, 2019 . Pp. 34-37.
  4. ↑ Information on the company's history according to: How it all began , in: Hydraulikpresse. Customer and employee magazine of the Hansa-Flex Group , 1/2012, ZDB -ID 2297014-9 , pp. 6–9; Foundations of success , in: Hydraulikpresse , 2/2012, pp. 14-17; Out into the world , in: Hydraulikpresse , 3/2012, pp. 18–21; Change to a system provider , in: Hydraulikpresse , 4/2012, pp. 14-17. Sketch of the company's history also in: f + h foster and lift - magazine for material flow and automation in production, storage, transport and handling , 2012, issue 1/2, ISSN  0343-3161 , p. 42.
  5. ↑ a b c Krischan Förster: Hansa-Flex relies on global expansion. In: Weser courier . June 5, 2012, accessed March 13, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Hansa-Flex: The little history of the X-Code. In: pressebox.de. March 31, 2011, accessed March 18, 2019 (Company news release).
  7. ↑ According to information in: Class despite mass , in: Hydraulic press. Customer and employee magazine of the Hansa-Flex Group , 4/2012, ZDB -ID 2297014-9 , pp. 6–9.
  8. ↑ Stéphane Itasse: Hansa-Flex employs over 3000 people for the first time . In: MM MaschinenMarkt from January 25, 2012, ZDB -ID 240867-3 ( online at www.maschinenmarkt.vogel.de, accessed on March 1, 2015).
  9. ↑ Hansa-Flex. Hydraulics specialist takes over in Portugal . In: ZulieferMarkt , October 2016, p. 8.
  10. ^ Hansa-Flex acquires Springbok Connections. In: Hydraulics and Pneumatics. March 22, 2017. Retrieved July 5, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Hansa-Flex Annual Report 2017 (PDF), p. 8.
  12. ↑ For the structure of the company, see the relevant information on the company website; accessed on March 18, 2018.
  13. ↑ See information on the company page on the company website, accessed on March 18, 2019.
  14. ↑ Hansa-Flex AG: Annual Report 2017 (pdf) Accessed March 20, 2020 . P. 9 and p. 36.
  15. ↑ See the relevant information on the company's website. See also: Matthias Voigt: Hansa-Flex: A lot in stock . In: Darmstädter Echo , May 26, 2012.
  16. ↑ Unconsolidated.
  17. ↑ See list of award winners ( memo from July 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the website Die Familienunternehmer - ASU e. V. Bremen Regional District (asu-bremen.de); accessed on February 27, 2015.
  18. ↑ Ingrid Horn: Hydraulics competence center founded. In: www.hs-ulm.de. March 12, 2012, accessed on July 4, 2017 (press release from Ulm University of Applied Sciences).
  19. ↑ Mathias Niebergall: New sponsor for the hydraulics competence center , report on www.fluid.de from December 8, 2016, accessed on July 4, 2017.
  20. ↑ Hansa-Flex AG: Annual Report 2017. (pdf) Retrieved on March 20, 2019 . P. 20.
  21. ↑ See information on communication → hydraulic press on the company's website; Retrieved on March 4, 2015. See also ZDB ID 2297014-9 .