Hazet

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HAZET-WERK Hermann Zerver

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1868
Seat Remscheid , Germany
management technical director:
Guido Schmidt
commercial director:
Matthias J. Hoffmann
Number of employees ~ 500 (as of 2008)
sales ~ 90 million (as of 2015)
Branch Tool manufacturer
Website www.hazet.com

The Hazet-Werk Hermann Zerver GmbH & Co. KG is a German tool manufacturer based in Remscheid . The brand name Hazet is shortened for the first letters Ha and Zett of the name of the founder Hermann Zerver.

Corporate development

The trained small smith Hermann Zerver founded the company HAZET-WERK in 1868. Later his sons Ernst and David Zerver ran the company. Subsequently, Alfred Zerver and his cousin Hans Zerver took over the management of the company.

During the Second World War , mainly war-related products were produced, at times also at the Schmalkalden location . After the complete destruction of the parent plant, production was also carried out outdoors at times. The company gained international fame and its real rise in the period after the war.

The family business is now run by the commercial director Matthias J. Hoffmann (fifth generation) and technical director Guido Schmidt. The company manufactures more than 5500 different products in its four plants in Remscheid and Heinsberg with around 500 employees and has five agencies and two sales offices in Germany. Sales partnerships exist in over 100 countries around the world. HAZET and the HAZET sales partners supply not only the specialist and accessories trade, but also the automotive industry, commercial users such as industrial companies, airlines, trade and commerce and government agencies. The company offers its sales partners additional sales training.

On June 4, 2005, the managing partner of the company Matthias Hoffmann, who has also been President of the European Tool Committee (CEO) since 2004 , was elected chairman of the German Tool Industry Association (FWI). Both associations are also based in Remscheid.

Products

Brake line wrench from Hazet

HAZET offers tools from the complete range of hand-held tools to many special tools, especially for the automotive sector, as well as for the industrial sector and aviation.

These include VDE tools, operating and workshop equipment, tool trolleys, socket wrench inserts, wrenches, screwdrivers, hammers, pliers and scissors, torque wrenches, special tools, tool assortments and general workshop requirements.

Before the Second World War, the company was the first in Europe to introduce nickel-chromium coatings for the surface protection of hand tools. The company holds numerous patents, for example for the HAZET Tourist, a tool case as a spare wheel insert for the VW Beetle . With the manufacture of the HAZET “Assistant”, the company manufactured the first hand tool trolley worldwide.

In 2005, the HAZET CLT torque wrench received the iF Design Award from the Industrial Forum Design Hannover from among 740 competitors .

Web links

Commons : Hazet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. K. Volpert: FWI elects new chairman: Matthias Hoffmann , www.werkzeugforum.de, 2005.
  2. Gutefahrt.com: Hazet Tourist toolkit (1951-) , English.
  3. K. Volpert: Hazet CLT torque wrench receives iF product design award 2005  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.werkzeugforum.de, 2005.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.werkzeugtest.de