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At a glance
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Figures And Facts
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Founded in 1917 as “Eisen- und Metallwerke Ferndorf GmbH” |
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Name changed in 2007 to “Bender-Ferndorf Rohr GmbH” |
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Focus of production: spirally welded large diameter pipes |
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Basic material: Steel |
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The main application areas are in the fields: Water supply, sewage, oil, gas, distance heating, building industry, manufacturing industry (chemical industry) |
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Location: Kreuztal-Ferndorf (10 km to the north of Siegen. 70 km to the east of Cologne) |
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Employees: about 100 |
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Output: about 100,000 tons of pipes per year |
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Revenue breakdown: around 70% in exports, 30% domestic sales |
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Our Unique Selling Propositions …
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the non-ovality (our pipes round „by nature” and keep a constant diameter) |
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our adherence to production and delivery specifications |
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our customized solutions (we produce all popular diameters, lengths and pipe wall thicknesses) |
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our more than 90 year experience with producing large diameter pipes: we have realized several thousand projects by now |
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our high quality standards: we have our own testing lab and we analyse all production steps minutely, starting with the coil |
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our willingness to innovate: pre-stressing in the factory, bursting tests, spectral analysis,wall thickness of 25,4 mm is possible, reproducible pipe ends |
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we handle the whole chain of production and logistics: production, coating, transport to the construction site, and stacking. |
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How It All Started
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1917: Ernst Bender founded the company with the name “Eisen- und Metallwerke Ferndorf GmbH” |
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1923: The company objective is now producing large (longitudinally welded) steel pipes and the construction of special machinery for this purpose |
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1957: Production of spirally welded pipes begins |
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1958: API certification. The basis of our current QM system |
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1980: First production of a spirally welded large diameter pipe with a wall thickness of 25 mm |
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1993: ISO 9001 certification |
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2003: ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 certifications |
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2007: Name changed to “Bender-Ferndorf Rohr GmbH” |
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2010: Expansion of the size range to wall thickness up to 25,4 mm for X 70 and 22 mm for X 80 |
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2010: Ultrasonic test, nor only of weld seams, but also of the entire base material after forming |
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2010: Employment of worldwide most advanced testing facilities in production and the company owned lab |
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