Stockholder Drösser invests in sheet processing

German steel stockholder Drösser Stahlhandel, headquartered in Cologne, is currently expanding its site in Engelskirchen, located to the east of the aforementioned city.

The Engelskirchen site will get another workshop with 6,000 square metres of additional space, for storage and for expanded processing activities in particular. Drösser is a comprehensive distribution operation with an emphasis on sheet products and processing services such as cutting, flaming, and sandblasting. It recently became the fifth German company to be certified by Swedish steelmaker SSAB as a laser partner.

The company operates in three locations, but with the upcoming expansion it will concentrate on the sites in Cologne and Engelskirchen, managing director René Hülser tells Kallanish. Among other developments, Engelskirchen will benefit from the creation of a high-bay warehouse and the installation of an automatic cut-to-size machine.  The installation work and new machinery will cost a two-digit million-euro amount, and the upgrade is planned to be finished in summer 2019, in time for the company’s 100th anniversary, Hülser notes.

Apart from its full-service locations, Drösser also operates eight so-called ‘ProKilo’ stores for small lots in the Cologne area but also in Berlin, Wiesbaden and Vienna.