Sennebogen opens new facility in Hungary

Germany-based material handling equipment maker Sennebogen GmbH has officially opened its new Termelés-Logistic-Centrum GmbH manufacturing site in Litér, Hungary. The 315,000-square-foot plant has been designed to allow Sennebogen to expand its capacity to fabricate steel and welded assemblies.

The facility, which also includes office space, was built on a 32-acre site about a half-hour drive from Sennebogen’s first such plant in Balatonfüred, Hungary. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was attended by shareholder Walter Sennebogen and Michael Seiferling, managing director of the new site, along with Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó and legislator Károly Kontrát.

“Termelés-Logistic-Centrum GmbH is our most important supplier of steel assemblies,” Walter Sennebogen says. “With this greenfield investment in Hungary we are not only expanding our capacities to meet the growing demand, but also building reserves for the future.”

Designed for handling large and heavy components more than 95 feet long and weighing in at 50,000 pounds, the production facility has been designed to produce 20,000 tons of steel structures per year.

According to Sennebogen, whose equipment has a large presence in the recycling, demolition and waste markets, the facility’s warehousing, work preparation and internal logistics are optimized and geared toward particularly large components and will deliver increased capacity.

“With the new plant, we are supplementing our previous steel component production capacity in Balatonfüred," Seiferling says. “The locations are also logistically connected via plant traffic.”

Constantino Lannes, president of North Carolina-based Sennebogen LLC, says the facility will play a role in helping meet American and Canadian customer demand. “We were thrilled to learn about this investment when it was first decided over two-and-half years ago, and today this is going to allow us to continue to meet customer expectations in terms of meeting the market demand,” Lannes says.

According to Walter Sennebogen, sustainability aspects played a key role in the design of the new location. “The plant is equipped with a photovoltaic system with an output of 2.4 megawatts so that it will be energy self-sufficient with the electrical power generated from its photovoltaic system," he says. "The office building is also heated with energy-efficient underfloor heating and the production hall with low-temperature heating via concrete core activation.”

Significant investment also was made in modern machine tools and machining centers for mechanical processing as well as flame and laser cutting. “To complement the manufacturing process, an ergonomically sophisticated welding area for the production of welded structures was created, as was a paint shop equipped to the latest standards,” according to Sennebogen.