Company profile

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Company profile

The international commercial enterprise specializes in aluminium products and supplies today in 46 countries world-wide. The own truck pool, now 11 trucks, provides daily service for domestic customers.

5 high rack warehouses erected on the company-owned premises (40.000 m²), a new office-building and two truck service centers.

Specialties:

• Aluminium pipe fittings, used by tank- and bulk-vehicle manufacturers word-wide.
• Aluminium fence-systems, offered for fence manufacturers in Europe.
• Aluminiumprofiles and -tubes up to 18 m length
• Among the customers are plant manufacturers for conveying systems, mostly operators or builders of conveying systems for synthetic granules. Many components and accessory parts are available.

Products and services

Stock program

• More than 1600 aluminium standard profiles and -tubes, extruded, drawn and welded. Special profiles according to customers drawing
• Aluminium bars for CNC-machining (also plates)
• Pipe fittings: elbows, equal tees, reducers, thread fittings and flanges
• Fence systems: fence laths, picket fences, forged fences
• Accessory parts for conveying systems
• Sheets: blank, coated, anodised tread plates (chequer plates) and perforated plates

Service

• Aluminium cross-sections up to 630 x 540 mm cutting possible. Mitre cuts on profiles possible up to Ø 270 mm
• CNC-machining: turning, milling, threads, bending of profiles and tubes.

The native speaking sales personnel in this traditionally family-owned company communicates in their mother language and is able to negotiate and bill in 11 languages at the moment, even in Cyrillic for Russians.

Company history

June 1986
Foundation of one-man company Ingrid Leopoldine Blecha metal merchandise trading in Ternitz

March 1988
Leasing of a storehouse (273 m²) from Austrian Railway Company at the railway station in Neunkirchen

July 1991
Foundation of company Ingrid Blecha Ges.m.b.H.

March 1992
Purchase of the business premises of 3.356 m² in Neunkirchen, Föhrenwaldstrasse

June 1992
Construction of the office building and warehouse of 1.179 m²

May 1993
Relocation into the new building

1998
Annex to the office and warehouse

March 2003
Purchase of business premises of 15.958 m² in 2620 Neunkirchen, Triftweg 102

August 2003
Start of construction on Triftweg 102

December 2003
Construction of storehouse #1 of 2.000 m²

November 2004
Construction of storehouse #2 of 2.000 m²

March 2005
Expansion of existing business premises at Triftweg to 24.931 m² in total

November 2005
Construction of storehouse #3 of 2.322 m²

December 2006
Mounting of the crane construction at storehouse #3, Triftweg 102

Spring 2007
Start of construction of office building at Triftweg of 1800 m² floor space

July 2008
Relocation into the new building

October 2008
Retirement of managing director Ing. Albert Blecha
Bestowal of ring of honor of Neunkirchen town to Ing. Albert Blecha through mayoress Mrs. Gutterding

November 2008
Extension of the business area at Triftweg of 3.300 m² to a total of 28.600 m²

December 2008
Startup of mitre circular saw with blade diameter of 450 mm

February 2009
Purchase of 6.300 m² agricultural area and 3.300 m² forests – plan for rededication is filed for, building land at Triftweg is augmented to about 36.000 m²

March 2009
Installation of subsurface circular saw with blade diameter of 700 mm

May 2009
Startup of automatic cutting line with circular saw for mass cuttings, blade diameter of 400, 500 and 600 mm

July 2009
Admission to the network of  Austrian Leading Companies.
Groundbreaking for construction of Hall 4 of 2.000 m² and of truck-garage of 1.000 m²

August 2009
Installation of automatic fully hydraulic heavy-duty bandsaw for diameters up to 540 mm

February 2010
Registration of 2 trucks 3,5 tons and 1 truck 12 tons

March 2010
Finishing of Hall 4 and truck-garage

April 2010
Startup of 2 new four-way trucks

June 2010
Second winner of the „Export trophy 2010“ during the export day organized by the Austrian Chamber of Commerce

July 2010
Foundation of 100 % -subsidiary company Blecha Kft in Hungary

September 2010
Startup of 2 new forklifts

November 2010
Formal visit of Federal Minister for Women and Civil Service Mrs. Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek

December 2010
Finish of alteration works on former location Föhrenwaldstraße into staff accommodations.
Presentation of klima:aktiv award for energy efficiency by Federal Minister Nikolaus Berlakovich
Installation of new software-version of our ERP
Energy savings device for illumination in storehouses

January 2011
3. winner at Neuland-Award presented by EcoPlus, commercial agency of Lower Austria

April/May 2011
Registration of 1 truck 18 tons and 1 truck 12 tons