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Moving onward year after year
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HABA-Beton is a company with a tradition. The specialist concrete manufacturer has been owned by the Bartlechner family for four generations and currently employs around 400 staff.
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1912 |
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Mathias Bartlechner, the current owner’s great-grandfather, sets up a business in the village of Kirchweidach near Altötting in Upper Bavaria, Germany. The company initially sells coal, but Mathias Bartlechner soon starts to manufacture concrete pipes, too. It goes without saying that one hundred years ago, production conditions were much more complicated than today. Mathias Bartlechner could only manufacture one pipe per day and diameter in the wooden formwork he had built specifically for this purpose.
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1936 |
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Mathias Bartlechner’s son, Johann, establishes the first freight forwarding company in the Altötting region. His business was to become the basis for the company’s own vehicle fleet.
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1967 |
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Johann Bartlechner and his wife Gisela take over management of the company in the third generation.
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1970 |
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The company now employs seven staff. Johann Bartlechner runs the business in the third generation and has turned it into a solid small enterprise.
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1971 |
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The company takes over the composite paving stones plant in Tüßling.
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1982 |
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Johann Bartlechner initiates the building of a new pipe plant in Garching an der Alz; the pipe plant in Kirchweidach is closed down. Until this day, the administration building is located in Kirchweidach.
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1989 |
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The company acquires the gravel plant in Engelsberg to ensure that the HABA production facilities have their own supply of sand and gravel.
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1992 |
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The company acquires the pipe plant in Teising.
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1993 |
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HABA-Beton has by now turned into a business of respectable size and inaugurates its new pipe plant in Großsteinberg near Leipzig.
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1995 |
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The paving stones plant in Tüßling is modernised and expanded.
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1996/97 |
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The plant in Großsteinberg is expanded.
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1998/99 |
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Johann Bartlechner GmbH & Co. KG, the company’s subsidiary in Austria is founded and a new pipe facility opens in Nußdorf ob der Traisen in Lower Austria.
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2000 |
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The company takes over the Züblin pipe plant in Türkheim and modernises it.
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2001 |
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The company takes over the pipe plant in Aichstetten, Baden-Württemberg. Around 300 employees now work for HABA-Beton.
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2002 |
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The longstanding company director, Johann Bartlechner, dies in a tragic car accident. Johann Bartlechner junior takes over management of the business with his mother Gisela and his brother Franz.
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2004 |
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The pipe plant in Austria is expanded. The company founds a subsidiary and a sales office in Poland, which has just joined the European Union.
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2005 |
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The pipe plant in Teising is converted and modernised.
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2006 |
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HABA-Beton starts to manufacture the HABA PERFECT chamber base system in Bavaria.
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2007 |
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The paving stones plant in Tüßling is modernised and converted.
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2008/2009 |
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The Großsteinberg plant is expanded and starts to produce the HABA PERFECT chamber base system.
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2009 |
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HABA-Beton takes over Karo Betonelemente GmbH in Kuchl (Salzburg), an Austrian manufacturer of concrete components. The company now manufactures its products at an additional site in Austria.
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2013/2014 |
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A state-of-the-art production facility for paving stones is built at Türkheim, Germany.
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2014 |
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Expansion of the facilities at Ujazd, Poland: production is due to start in 2015.
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2014 |
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The company takes over the pipe plant of Gollwitzer GmbH & Co. KG in Mantel (Weiden) |
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