HYDRAULIKPRESSE - HANSA-FLEX Hydraulics Canada Inc.

BRANCHES
HANSA-FLEX Czech Republic was founded in Prague
in 1995 with a branch based on the industrial site
of Prazská strojírna A.G., which initially provided
a hydraulics service for the entire region of Central
Bohemia.
It quickly managed to win over customers with the
level of quality supplied, a well-stocked warehouse
and a 24-hour service. Its clientele soon included
numerous transport companies and building contractors
involved in construction of the new traffi c
routes and lines of Prague’s underground railway.
The company then opened a second branch in
Prague in 1999 with a staff of four. Today this offi
ce is responsible for managing all other branches
based in the Czech Republic. It is headed up by Rudolf
Melc. Since 2002 HANSA-FLEX’s Czech Republic
Group has also included branches in Ústí nad Labem
and Liberec. The branch in Liberec, which is managed
by Pavel Kovarík, is housed in the building in
which the well-known car designer Porsche was
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born. Together with the branch in Ústí nad Labem
managed by Rudolf Reichelt it is responsible for
off ering service to North Bohemia. The Ústí branch
was also involved in the tunnelling work for the
motorway network between Prague and Dresden.
Since 2003 the traditionally dynamic industrial region
of Brno has been home to one of the company’s
most successful branches in the Czech Republic.
Here Marian Bednarík and a team of two devote
themselves to the business of hydraulic components
and operate as an OEM for a major exporter
in the oil rig sector supplying the whole of Europe.
In the region of Pilsen, which specialises in mechanical
engineering, Michal Urban manages a
branch founded in 2004. Besides its hydraulics service,
the branch supports the international Ingersoll-
Rand organisation with compressor production as
original equipment. With the help of Karl- Heinz
Loose from Head Offi ce in Bremen, Pilsen is responsible
for supplying curved pipes, produced by
HANSA-FLEX Weixdorf.
2005 saw the addition of a branch in Pardubice,
which is managed by Miroslav Vencl. This region
is dominated by chemicals production. Its bestknown
product is Semtex, a plastic explosive for
commercial blasting. The customers of the branch
not only include companies from the chemicals industry
but also agricultural fi rms and building contractors
involved in development of
the Prague - Ostrava ava
rail corridor.
Chodov near
Karlovy Vary
was the site chosen
for the next
branch founded
in 2006. Here
branch manager
Zdenek Kozel
was faced with
the major challenge
of in particuu-
lar winning over customers from the mining sector
in the coal basin of North Bohemia and Most.
The region of Ostrava, once a centre for steel in the
republic, has also shown highly dynamic growth.
The demand for hydraulics services is growing
there, so prompting HANSA-FLEX to open another
branch there in 2007 under the management of
Jirí Stanovsky. This year also saw inauguration of
the tenth branch in the industrial region of Zlín,
where the machine construction sector is currently
undergoing regeneration. This branch is managed
by Martin Panácek. The dense network of branches
in the Czech Republic headed up by Jaroslav Kratochvil
is now aiming to further improve the quality
of services and add to this range according to the
requirements of customers. The FLEXXPRESS vehicle
based in Prague is set to be joined by others
in these regions. New services such as X-CODE,
the ISSO standard and of course constant expansion
of the product range are all communicated by
HANSA-FLEX Czech Republic at exhibitions and fairs,
in trade journals and - it goes without saying - by
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ISSUE DECEMBER 2007