Freight solutions specialist Bodex

freiGht solutions speCialist

Bodex, headquartered in Szczercow, is a leading Polish manufacturer of semi-trailers and trailers. The company owes its business success to its ability to offer the most reliable products and meet customers’ expectations to the highest standards, as well as its highly professional employees. Dariusz Balcerzyk reports.

Bodex was founded in 1991 in Szczercow, a village in central Poland, at a time when the Polish trailer industry was almost non-existent. There was therefore practically no local competition for Bodex as foreign producers had not yet entered the market.

Initially, the company was dealing with specialised repairs of transport vehicles. However, owing to the growing demand for vehicles to transport loose materials, Bodex made the decision to launch the production of dumper semi-trailers followed by box semi-trailers. Success followed rapidly, with the trailers from Szczercow successfully competing with tippers made by foreign manufacturers.

Over the following years, the company continued the implementation of new products; its range of models grew steadily and it also continued to improve on its existing lines. This resulted in a dynamic sales increase that made Bodex one of the leaders on the Polish market for semi-trailers and trailers.

The year 2004, when Poland joined the European Union, brought even greater development opportunities for Bodex. To meet growing demand, the company modernised its production facility with a new warehouse, new production hall, new painting chambers and upgraded machinery park. As a result, Bodex was able to increase its production of quality semi-trailers to meet highest expectations of its customers, who had been growing in number year-on-year.

Vast product offering

Today, Bodex is a well-known Polish manufacturer of more than 100 different types of vehicles, including tippers, low loading semitrailers, walking floor trailers, tippers with blowing system, drawbar trailers, tank vehicles, container trailers, curtain trailers, curtain trailers with drop sides, rigid boxes, timber trailers and chassis for further development. However, the company does not rest on its laurels and has constantly been increasing its product range.

Bodex uses only components from renowned international manufacturers, such as the SAF and BPW axes with a load capacity of 9 to 12 tonnes and DaimlerChrysler axes. The chassis are equipped with Wabco or Knorr braking systems. Electric installations with LED lamps come from Hella or Aspöck, while the hydraulic cylinders are from Penta, Hyva, Edbro or Binotto. Meanwhile, Hardox and Domex steel are the basic materials for tipper production. The company’s strategic goal is to increase its share in the global markets and grow customers’ trust for the Bodex brand in newly acquired markets.

The more unusual vehicles often require non-standard solutions, such as steering axles controlled mechanically, hydraulically or by radio waves. Bodex operates advanced warehouse facilities that allow for timely deliveries of vehicles. The machine park is equipped with modern production equipment that enables it to customise its vehicles to clients’ specifications wherever necessary.

A european supplier

Bodex is well recognised and appreciated both on the local, Polish market and on the international markets. It delivers its semi-trailers and trailers to many countries, including: Poland, Ukraine, Denmark, Norway, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Belarus, Germany, Hungary and many more.

The company’s development is supported by EU funds, which it acquired as part of the project known as ‘The innovative technology for the production of a new optimised construction of a multivariate loading trailer’, co-financed by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund under the Operational Program: Smart Growth Operational Program (OP IR) 2014-2020. As a result of the project’s implementation, a semi-trailer with with a frame weight reduced by 500kg will be created, while maintaining

the same strength parameters. A new trailer for multivariate loading will also be constructed. Its advantage will lie in the elimination of the central post, which hinders the loading of long products.

Highly appreciated

The fact that Bodex is able to deliver a product that is strictly designed according to customers’ requirement is a great competitive advantage. However, it is also very important that even though each product is treated separately, Bodex can still deliver it much faster than other producers. Each year the company’s statistics are improving and thanks to constant communication with its clients, it is able to keep up with the market latest trends to make its trailers better and better. Its products meet the expectations of the most demanding customers, which is reflected by the continued sales growth.

Bodex’s semi-trailers and trailers are durable and functional; no wonder, then, that they are highly sought after on the secondary market, and that drivers who use them praise their high durability as well as the driving comfort and ease of operation. n

For more information, visit: www.bodex.biz.pl