English
Whilst the heart of HAZET beats in Remscheid, its pulsating arm is undoubtedly to be found in Heinsberg. Plant 2 represents a unique chapter in the company's history: it is the only plant that was built outside its home town of Remscheid. But the Heinsberg site was not chosen by chance; it epitomises strategic foresight and innovative spirit.
Heinsberg's geographical location in the border triangle of Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium offers optimal logistical advantages in the European market. Just an hour's drive from Remscheid, this location offers efficient access to major trade routes, enabling HAZET to deliver its products quickly and reliably to all corners of Europe. The spacious logistics centre in Heinsberg is therefore the central nervous system for the worldwide distribution of HAZET products.
But Plant 2 is not only home to the logistics centre: it is also the place where all so-called rotationally symmetrical parts are manufactured, e.g. the sockets and the final electroplating of all HAZET products. Although there are no traditional forging hammers for hot forging here as in Remscheid – partly due to the soft ground – the plant has specialised in another, equally fascinating technique: "cold forging".
Cold forming is used here on high-precision machining centres to produce, amongst other things, the robust and durable sockets – commonly known as ‘nuts’. Each and every one of them is a testament to the technological expertise and know-how, as well as the high quality, that HAZET stands for.
In Heinsberg, our tools receive the ‘finishing touch’ in an electroplating plant where they are coated with a chromium-nickel coating. Not only do the tools look very elegant and high-quality afterwards, but the chromium-nickel coating also provides long-term protection against corrosion for HAZET’s quality tools.
Plant 2 thus brings together two worlds: efficient logistics that understands both the dynamics of modern distribution and high-tech manufacturing in cold-forming processes.