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offers dental technicians and dentists a whole range of
innovative devices, instruments, materials, implants, services
and procedures for making and processing dentures.
Another example is Bühnen GmbH, founded in 1922 as a
locksmith’s, and today one of the world’s leading providers
of hotmelt adhesives and the corresponding application
devices. German Lashing Robert Böck is well-known all
around the globe. The company is involved in ship containers,
producing and supplying fastening and stowing
materials for securing containers. Containers can be
loaded and unloaded in next-to-no time with the cleverly
devised systems by the Bremen company.
Gestra is a global leader in the design and production of
valves and control systems for heat and process fluid control.
Gleistein Ropes – Bremen’s oldest industrial family
company – leads the technology world when it comes to
high-tech ropes, from the thinnest cord to hawsers as
thick as a tree trunk. The GTF Freese Group looks back on
more than 100 years of history as a family company and
has specialised in marine floorings – with references
covering practically all shipbuilding sites worldwide – together
with corrosion protection and flooring technology.
One of the world’s leading suppliers of hydraulic systems is
Hansa-Flex. It was in his garage that company founder
Joachim Armerding made the first hoses back in 1962;
meanwhile Hansa-Flex has become a by-word for all areas
of hydraulics, with 384 branches in 39 countries. Huss Park
Attractions gets things moving on fairgrounds all around
the globe as the market leader in the development, production
and sales of innovative ride attractions for leisure
parks.
Igel Technology, a subsidiary of the Melchers Group,
started up in 1989 and produces around 175,000 thin
clients (network computers) each year. Analysts see the
company as a driving force in the market: Igel is the fastest
growing thin client manufacturer in the world and often
leaves HP and Fujitsu standing. According to International
Data Corporation (IDC), Igel Technology leads the German
market, is No. 3 in Europe, No. 5 in the world by quantity
and No. 3 in the world by turnover.
Another success story is being written by KAEFER Isolier -
technik GmbH. This is the world’s largest provider of the
full range of services covering all aspects of insulation
materials. When Carl Kaefer first used peat to insulate the
walls of the cold storage stores in 1918, the vision of an
efficient energy economy was born. Machine construction
firm Kocks Krane GmbH faces physically demanding tasks
in moving heavy loads under highly adverse operating
conditions for ports and shipyards. The new container
gantry developed by Dr. Friedrich Kocks in the 1960s set
the basic standard for all container gantries used today.
The long-standing company with a tradition dating back
to 1872 today belongs to Kranunion and leads the world
market for so-called Goliath cranes (shipbuilding gantry
cranes) as the premium global brand for shipyard and port
cranes.
Other leading international companies on the Weser include
OAS AG in the field of industrial plant construction
and weighing technology, Saacke GmbH for firing systems
or Senning when it comes to advanced packaging technology,
including for example wrapping machines for
paper handkerchiefs. Sikora AG beats the competition
with appliances for contactless measurement of pipes,
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