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 forging is used here on high-precision machining centres to produce, among other things, the robust and durable sockets that everyone knows colloquially as "nuts". Every single one of them is a testimony to the technological expertise and know-how as well as the high quality that HAZET stands for.
In Heinsberg, our tools are given the "finishing touches" in an environmentally friendly electroplated chrome-nickel coating facility. Not only do the tools then have a very elegant and high-quality appearance, the chrome-nickel coating also provides HAZET quality tools with lasting protection against corrosion.
Plant 2 brings together two worlds: Efficient logistics, which understands both the pulse of modern distribution and high-tech production in cold forming processes.