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SÜLZLE GROUP receives business award

2. October 2017/in Allgemein /by beckmann

Finalist for the Grand Prix of Small and Medium Business, 2017

Last Saturday in Würzburg (Germany), the SÜLZLE GROUP was named as a finalist for the Grand Prix of Small and Medium Business in Germany. The competition, which has been held by the Oskar Patzelt Foundation since 1995, draws attention to the brand “Made in Germany”, and the awards it confers are among the most coveted in the country.

This year’s award ceremony took place on 30 September in the Maritim Hotel in Würzburg. The finalists and prize winners, who came from Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Thuringia, were honoured at a gala evening event attended by eminent politicians, business leaders and media representatives. The Rosenfeld-based SÜLZLE GROUP was among the finalists for 2017. Managing partner Andreas Sülzle accepted the award in person. The family-owned company, which is now run by members of the fourth generation, has five divisions: SÜLZLE Stahlpartner, SÜLZLE Nutzeisen, SÜLZLE KOPF, SÜLZLE KLEIN and SOTRALENTZ CONSTRUCTION. It can look back on a 136-year history.

The purpose of the competition is to promote respect for corporate responsibility and entrepreneurial initiative and to encourage networking among medium-sized businesses.

The annual contest explicitly refrains from rating companies solely on the basis of their business success, employment statistics or innovativeness. Instead, they are judged as a whole and in regard to their role in society.

The criteria:

Overall development of the company
Creation and preservation of jobs and apprenticeships
Modernisation and innovation
Commitment to the region
Marketing, service and customer focus

The participating companies are engaged in manufacturing, service, retailing, the skilled crafts and trades. A special feature of the award is that companies cannot apply for it; they must be nominated by third parties. In 2017 a total 4,923 enterprises received nominations. “Considering the large number of applicants, we feel especially honoured to be among the most successful small and medium-sized businesses in Germany – especially because we were nominated by outsiders,” say managing partners Heinrich and Andreas Sülzle. “No other business competition in Germany has attained such prominence for so many years. That makes us extremely proud.”

Investment in new wire straightening machine

1. July 2017/in Allgemein /by mayer

SOTRALENTZ CONSTRUCTION invest in the location Drulingen and modernizes its production with a new wire straightening machine.

“This efficient new machine not only improves productivity, it also expands the product range for our customers,” says Managing Director Olivier Schmitt.

Thanks to this automation, SOTRALENTZ CONSTRUCTION employees benefit from improved work flows and conditions.

The new machine was commissioned on June 29, 2017.

SÜLZLE Group takes over French special wire mesh manufacturer SOTRALENTZ CONSTRUCTION

12. December 2016/in Allgemein /by beckmann

SÜLZLE is stationing itself in France: The company group, based in the Wurttemberg town of Rosenfeld, has taken over the French company, SOTRALENTZ CONSTRUCTION, with effect from 12th December 2016. The special wire mesh manufacturer is part of the insolvent Sotralentz Group and, along with its headquarters in Drulingen, Alsace, has a further production facility in Montchanin, Burgundy. With the Société Nouvelle SOTRALENTZ CONSTRUCTION, which has been established especially for the takeover, SÜLZLE is securing the future of around 150 employees and is additionally accessing customers in France, Germany, Switzerland and the Benelux countries.

SOTRALENTZ CONSTRUCTION has decades of experience in the manufacture and design of individual reinforcing meshes for reinforced concrete – with particular expertise in special meshes and segmental liners for tunnel construction. The medium-size company has earned an outstanding reputation in this market and has a loyal customer base. This also includes the SÜLZLE Group. “We are glad that our decision has enabled us to secure the ongoing survival of Sotralentz Construction and to continue to offer customers the services that they have become accustomed to,” explains Heinrich Sülzle, SÜLZLE Group proprietor. The steel specialist is thus strategically expanding its portfolio in the field of standard and reinforcement meshes for tunnel construction and, in doing so, is counting on the synergies of the collaboration that has existed for many years.

SÜLZLE and SOTRALENTZ CONSTRUCTION also have great commonality with regard to values and philosophy. “Our company group represents tradition, quality and a high degree of customer orientation,” asserts Heinrich Sülzle. “It is just the same with Sotralentz – this is another reason why we go well together.”SÜLZLE is taking over around 150 employees at the two sites. In Germany, the Group already has around 700 employees at 16 locations. “For us, this is a great opportunity to station ourselves in France and it is also an investment in the future,” emphasises Sülzle.

The new Stade Vélodrome

4. February 2015/in Allgemein /by bueschgen

SOTRALENTZ Construction has contributed, in part, to the renovation of the new Stade Vélodrome football stadium, having supplied 660 tonnes of welded mesh reinforcement for the project.

The central feature of this renovation is the stadium roof, which contains 5,500 tonnes of structural steelwork. The capacity of the stadium has been increased from 60,000 to 67,394 seats.

SOTRALENTZ Construction supports Artist Robin Godde

10. June 2014/in Allgemein /by bueschgen

SOTRALENTZ Construction supports Artist Robin Godde and supplied him with steel bars for his last exhibition in Carreau du Temple in Paris on 2014, May 3^rd. The artwork “Volute” was realized for the Fashion Fleat Market XXL of Violette Sauvage and is inspired by the universe of the host.

DWH meets its target!

14. May 2014/in Allgemein /by bueschgen

At the beginning of September, DWH received official certification of the energy management system. Following the start-up of the system on 1st July 2013, DWH then spent the next few months creating the necessary conditions for successful certification.

At the end of April 2014, the auditors of “TÜV SÜD” visited DWH, at Trier and Horath, to check progress on the energy management system. ISO 50001 certification was awarded following this audit.

The 3rd Abidjan Bridge

17. February 2014/in Allgemein /by bueschgen

Sotralentz Construction has supplied 200 tonnes of galvanized steel for the construction of the “3rd Abidjan bridge” project – the Henri Konan Bédié bridge. This bridge forms part of a 6.7 km third lagoon crossing between Riviera and Marcory, which is mainly intended to ease congestion on the existing Charles de Gaulle and Houphouët-Boigny bridges.

SOTRALENTZ Construction delivers reinforcement cages for the new Karlsruhe metro tunnel

2. November 2013/in Allgemein /by bueschgen

SOTRALENTZ Construction is currently delivering welded wire mesh reinforcement cages for the new metro tunnel in Karlsruhe.

Based in Alsace, SOTRALENTZ Construction manufactures welded wire mesh. The firm has previously delivered reinforcement cages for other tunnels in France and elsewhere in Europe:

– Tramway NICE
– Métro Rennes
– Tunnel A41
– Tunnel BURE
– LGV Est high-speed line, Saverne
– Motorway tunnels: A86, Paris; A41, Annecy
– Tunnels in Kinding (Germany), Uetliberg (Switzerland), Liefkenshoek (Belgium), Salazie (Reunion Island)

Like other cities in Germany before it, in 2010 Karlsruhe embarked on a major city-centre redevelopment project. Adopted by the city council in 2002, the project is due to be completed in 2019 with the commissioning of the last three underground stations on Kriegsstraße. A key component of this redevelopment project is the transformation of the S-Bahn tram-train network, currently a mostly above-ground system, into a semi-metro, with the construction of underground lines and stations – a hybrid solution known as a Kombilösung.

Delivery of welded wire mesh for an avalanche barrier in Iceland

11. August 2013/in Allgemein /by bueschgen

SOTRALENTZ Construction manufactures special, made-to-measure welded wire mesh. In July 2012, it delivered 140 tonnes of special mesh for an avalanche barrier to Neskaupstadur, Iceland. The wall is an addition to an existing dike (see photo). The second phase of the project is currently under construction.

For both flat and shaped panels, our expertise in rebar means we can provide the right technical, industrial and economic solutions for the design and assembly of rebar cages, based on the use of special welded wire mesh.

SOTRALENTZ Construction technicians and engineers in France and Germany can conduct design studies on your behalf, providing the right technical, industrial and economic solutions for all your rebar projects.

Drilling work on the Saverne tunnel completed

11. March 2013/in Allgemein /by bueschgen

Drilling work on the second tube of the Saverne TGV rail tunnel was completed on 25 February 2013.

Three Sotralentz Group subsidiaries worked on the project, through the manufacturing of the tunnel-boring machine’s shield on the premises of Sotralentz Métal Industries, the manufacturing of 700 tonnes of reinforcement cages (segmental linings) at Sotralentz Construction and the supply of Actibloc wastewater treatment plants for three construction site facility centres, including the one at Ernolsheim-Lès-Saverne, at which an Actibloc 100 PE (population equivalent) system made up of two double-skin tanks (i.e. a settling tank and a clarification tank), each with a volume of 35 cubic metres, were used.