GESCHER, Germany – Mr Manfred Balzer, qualified engineer and Managing Director of HUESKER Synthetic GmbH in Gescher, Westphalia, proudly announces: “There are not many companies lucky enough to be able to celebrate their 150th anniversary”. Thanks to the innovative orientation and potential of HUESKER’s excellent staff, the company has become an international market leader since it was established 150 years ago. The slogan clearly reveals its position: “HUESKER – Engineering with Geosynthetics”. The continual search for the optimal solution for HUESKER’s customers has resulted in numerous patents. HUESKER’s engineers are always on the scene. Today, HUESKER is considered one of the hidden champions of German medium-sized companies.
The business concept of the classical cotton weaving mill, which H. & J. Huesker & Co. originally founded in December 1861, has developed to become one of today’s worldwide leading companies specialising in geosynthetics for the construction industry and the manufacture of textiles for industrial and agricultural applications.
Out Trademark – The Finest Minds
Mr Balzer sums up the company philosophy: “Our employees are our greatest asset and they continue to make all the difference. Competence, reliability and a committed search for the optimal solution – these factors form the basis of HUESKER’s success”.
Highly qualified, motivated and experienced staff guarantee consistent outstanding product quality and functional solutions.
“All our activities are focused on our customers and their requirements to which we dedicate our efforts with a high degree of flexibility and competence. Our entire expertise and experience therefore serves our customers around the globe,” emphasizes Mr Balzer.
Together we develop solutions.
This is how innovative and advanced products as well as system solutions are formed which often have a trend-setting effect on the market.
Products
As individual as the requirements are, HUESKER’s range of products and their different applications are just as varied. The standard product range includes synthetic textiles, geogrids, composite materials and clay sealing strips. The portfolio is rounded off with nonwovens, drainage mats and erosion protective mats (see table at end of story).
In addition to this standard range, HUESKER develops individual solutions for various structural engineering applications using a high degree of technical expertise and the company works together closely with customers, engineering companies, research and testing institutes. In this context geosynthetics bear a functional responsibility and therefore require long development and test phases which involve extensive approval and certification procedures. Certification of HUESKER’s products is consistently verified.
External and internal quality controlling and monitoring in HUESKER’s own accredited laboratory guarantee a consistently high product quality.
Thus HUESKER offers the most diverse structural engineering solutions all over the world. For example, implementation of projects ranging from earthworks and foundation engineering, road, railway and airport construction projects to hydraulic engineering, landfill construction, redevelopment of industrial and contaminated soils as well as asphalt reinforcement.
Milestone Projects
Some projects can be described as “milestones” in the history of HUESKER. It is with pleasure that we remember the bridging of sinkholes near Eisleben in 1993.
Here, after being reinforced with Fortrac® geogrids the federal road B180 was reopened for use after having been closed for years.
During the years 2000 to 2002 special emphasis was placed on the exceptional HUESKER solution for extreme requirements involved in the construction of the “Gröbers” railway intersection for high-speed trains in a mining area susceptible to sinkholes.
Another milestone was the “Mühlenberger Loch” project. From 2001 to 2003, thanks to the application of various HUESKER products, an area of 140 hectares of land was reclaimed within the tidal area of the Elbe thus allowing extension of production facilities for the Airbus A 380 in Hamburg; a project which, even today, is considered to be unique.
In 2010, the IGS (International Geosynthetics Society) committee presented HUESKER with the “IGS Award” for the development of high-strength geosynthetic reinforcements from innovative raw materials.
HUESKER is also well positioned for the future. Not only the outstanding performance of technical services helps to achieve this but also the sound financial structure of the company contributes to this positive outlook.
The most recent “milestone project” is currently being implemented in Poland.
Furthermore, products manufactured by HUESKER are also being used for reconstruction work on the A1 motorway in Germany.
Some sections of the planned motorway embankments pass through mining areas and this involves the risk of sinkholes which are not cartographically registered. This can cause subsidence pits with vast diameters which are dangerous for the project and therefore unacceptable. Hence, bridging these sinkholes is a major challenge when performing such construction measures. High tensile HUESKER geosynthetics made of Aramid prevent such sinkholes.
Creating Values – Maintaining Values
And this will be celebrated….HUESKER will duly celebrate its anniversary year.
Mr Balzer puts the facts in a nutshell by concluding: “Employees, partners and customers are invited to join the celebration because it is thanks to them that every day we succeed in meeting the challenge of always developing the best solution – and we have been doing so for the past 150 years!”
Contact (Media)
Pia Möllers
Tel.: +49 (0) 25 42 / 7 01 – 3 12
Fax: +49 (0) 25 42 / 7 01 – 4 81
pressestelle@huesker.de
www.huesker.com
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Company Development The company HUESKER was founded as H. & J. Huesker & Co. in December 1861 in Gescher, Westphalia, as a cotton weaving mill. The following years were marked by a period of rapid industrial expansion in Germany. In 1958 the company recognised the excellent development opportuniti Now, it is a global player with an international sales network and numerous subsidiaries. HUESKER geosynthetics are used in the construction industry. Industrial and agricultural textiles are further, rapidly expanding product ranges of the company.
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