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Today not only pipes and fitt ings,
but also the complete range of
stainless steel long products such
as flat steel, hot-rolled or cold-finished
bars, angles and O-channels,
as well as hollow steel are stored.
This enables large end users, industrial
concerns but also smaller
enterprises to select from the wide
range of products to suit their
projects. In addition to major business
with French trading com-
Expedition – the stages
The modernised offices … … and the extensive storage capacities
panies, the customer focus is on
plant, piping system and boiler
construc ters. A total area of
27,000 m2 is available in Soissons
for the storage of the steel products.
In the adjacent sawing
centre the long products can be
cut to the length the cus tomer requires.
In 2011 TRD Inox realised
a turnover of EUR 22 million for
sales of 3,200 tons of special
steel.
equipped for the
future
Since December 2011 TRD Inox
has belonged to the Stappert organisation
and in the future it will
enrich the “… nature of steel”
under the name Stappert France.
Stefan Müller-Bernhardt and his
team are very ambitious for the
future: the successful result
a chieved last year is to be increased.
The field staff has been
working towards this goal for a
good six months, acquiring new
customers, principally from the
metalworking and engineering industries
in and around Paris, wich
is only around one hour away from
Soissons. A total of 29 employees
support around 3,000 active customers.
One particularly positive
aspect is the high motivation of
the French team and their customer-oriented
flexibility and proximity.
The Stappert organisation‘s
wide variety of products and the
stocks of standard and special
grades complete TRD Inox‘ offer.
A professional basis
The 70,000 m2 site in Soissons
was also revamped. The 250 m2 office premises were renovated in
June 2011, thus providing a professional
basis to master the up-
coming challenges. “When I
started here everything looked a
bit different,” reports Managing
Director Stefan Müller-Bernhardt,
who is responsible not only for
TRD Inox, but also for the other
western companies, such as
Intramet in Belgium, Noxon in the
Netherlands and Trinox in Switzerland.
“In one corner of the warehouse
we discovered three wonderful
vintage cars which my
predecessor had parked there.“
Nowadays such anecdotes just
make Stefan Müller-Bernhardt
smile. Because the future has long
since begun at Stappert France,
and he looks forward to everything
that the future will bring him and
his team.
Managing Director
Stefan Müller-Bernhardt … Head of Sales Olivier Odokine with Angelique Blin from Purchase department and the whole staff
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