Bodo Möller sets up bigger hub

DO THE POZNÁN

POLAND • A MOVE OUT OF POZNÁN WILL GIVE BODO MÖLLER MORE SPACE, BETTER LOGISTICS AND A REGIONAL HUB, AS WELL AS CONCENTRATING ITS ADHESIVES EXPERTISE

AFTER A 15-YEAR presence, the Polish branch of the Bodo Möller Chemie Group has developed into a hub for the specialty chemicals market in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. To promote growth even further, the company has moved into a completely new building, which was constructed for the special requirements of the dangerous goods industry, with an adjacent warehouse for chemicals.

For logistical reasons, the new headquarters in Suchy Las offers advantages. Its location directly on the main highway to Poznán allows the fast movement of goods to and from the new site. The new warehouse has an area of 1,000 m² and offers 600 pallet spaces and 25 chilled pallet spaces for products that must be stored below normal room temperature. Two newly hired skilled workers are qualified for administering ADR goods. With its own truck, Bodo Möller Chemie is capable of organising urgent deliveries to customers in Poland directly from the warehouse.

“With the new site, we have more pleasant work conditions with a simultaneous increase of space. In the future, this will offer us additional space for expansion not available in the overcrowded city of Poznán,” says Maciej Nawrot, managing director Poland, Czech and Slovakia of Bodo Möller Chemie.

The product portfolio of the Polish branch of Bodo Möller Chemie ranges from adhesives, sealants, composites, tooling materials and resins all the way to products for the coating and construction industry. “The market in and around Poland has been

A NEW OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE WILL PROVIDE BETTER growing for years and the need for modern materials is increasing. Since we established the branch in 2005, we have become one of the most important suppliers and know-how partners of the industry,” says Frank Haug, CEO of the Bodo Möller Chemie Group.

STICKY COMPETENCE The site in Poznán used until now has not been completely abandoned, as it will still house the Adhesives Competence Centre and the Adhesives Laboratory.

The independent Adhesives Laboratory of Bodo Möller Chemie remains in the High Technology Incubators Complex of the Poznán Science and Technology Park of the Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation. The space vacated by the move is now also available for the adhesives and materials research, consulting and testing laboratory. The laboratory is certified according to the ISO 9001:2008 quality management standard and has approval according to DIN 2304 (Quality requirements for adhesive bonding processes) and DIN 6701 (Standard for the adhesive bonding of rail vehicles and parts), confirmed by TBB Cert.

In addition, the attached Adhesive Competence Centre also offers an independent range of services related to adhesive application technology, starting with product selection and product validation all the way to process simulation and engineering. The services of the laboratory and the Adhesive Competence Centre are not only available to the Polish market, but are used by the globally operating Bodo Möller Chemie Group.

In other news, Bodo Möller Chemie has extended its collaboration with BASF in South Africa, adding the sale and distribution of dispersions for architectural coatings in southern Africa and English-speaking countries in West Africa.

“The cooperation with Bodo Möller Chemie gives us the opportunity to offer formulators our comprehensive product portfolio of polymer dispersions, resins and additives combined with technical and market expertise. Our aim is always to be more than a supplier of raw materials and support customers with formulation and market expertise, towards new methods, new strategies and in the creation of new market opportunities,” says Robert Heger, sector vice-president EMEA at BASF. www.bm-chemie.com