A LASTING LEGACY Since the Alutech Group was first introduced to Industry Europe readers a few years ago, the company has maintained its position as the eastern European market leader in roller shutters, aluminium profile systems and sectional doors. Vanja Švačko reports.
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focus on new key brands, advanced technologies and improving quality have been the distinguishing characteristics of the Alutech Group in recent years. In only two decades it has managed to grow from a small business handled by six people to a holding with six manufacturing enterprises and almost 30 sales representatives and local warehouses all over Europe (including Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Germany and Austria).
Shared responsibilities Alutech has three production sites in Belarus, two in Russia and Ukraine and one in Germany. Its diverse portfolio consists
of coated aluminium/steel lath roll-formed profiles, components and accessories for roller shutters, manufactured at its 25,000m2 production site in Minsk. A new production plant, Alutech Door Systems, was launched in 2013 as a result of more than $75 million of heavy investment deals with a wide range of doors (garage and industrial sectional doors, entry groups, sandwich-panels for sectional doors, steel guide channels etc.) and an annual capacity of 250,000 door units. Alumin Techno boasts the largest production of extruded aluminium profiles, powder coating and anodic treatment in eastern Europe. It is equipped with an up-to-date
foundry shop, six high-tech extrusion lines, two vertical powder coating lines and the largest anodising complex in the region. The other enterprises within the group are in charge of roller shutters and door production. The experienced German producer Günther-Tore GmbH, specialised in garage and industrial sectional doors, roller doors and grids etc., was purchased by Alutech in 2013. The group’s production is organised so that every single stage of the process can be controlled and supervised. All its equipment is purchased from manufacturers who are global leaders in their respective fields, and the entire management and produc-
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