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Furniture giant in Berlin builds on KORODUR |
| With a sales floor of 40,000 m² the site in Barsbüttel near Hamburg currently represents the hugest house of the Höffner Group. For this furniture shop even a new high-way exit was built. The construction sum ranged at approx. 130 million EUR. | 
| | Acc. to their own statement, furnisher Höffner ranks at no. 2 among Germany's furniture dealers in Germany - with 20 sites spread all over the country. The Berlin furniture chain Höffner for the first time in their company history has cracked the sales index of 1,0 milliard EUR. "The second half of the year had outrun our wildest expectations" commented the manager, Andreas Müller, in December 2006 in a press interview, whereby the most successful site was Barsbüttel. The Höffner Group nation-wide employs 8,000 co-workers, alone around 1,000 in the furniture shop and warehouse Barsbüttel. | The company was founded in 1874 by Rudolf Höffner as small cabinet making shop in Berlin. Before the 2nd world war it developed to Berlin's biggest furniture shop. Located in the Eastern part, Höffner after the partition of Berlin was no longer active. In 1967 the Berlin furniture entrepreneur Kurt Krieger bought the Höffner trade name and re-established the company.
"Krieger-grey" is also the definition for the special colour tone, which was given to the KORODUR industrial floor for the large project of the Höffner Group in Barsbüttel. Not only the individual colouring but also the logistic handling of the supplies to this huge job site were a challenge for KORODUR.
As a first step a quantity of around 350 tons KORODUR hard aggregate material "NEODUR HE 65 Krieger-grey" were supplied in big bag packaging. The much bigger quantity of around 1,800 tons of the specially modified dry mortar were supplied by KORODUR in their well approved silo system for large building sites. As the time slot for the installation was limited, at times up to 4 silo units were in operation at the same time to guarantee to daily install performance. | 
| | The KORODUR silo system, comprising a vertical silo and efficient mixing technique allows a daily performance of between 1,500 and 2,500 m² installed industrial floor. Product-referred additional costs are easily compensated by the accelerated working procedure and the optimum way of supply. The arrangement of mixing places as well as the disposal of packaging material are saved. A most important advantage is the homogeneous quality of the fresh mortar compared to individual mixing batches.
The furniture empire Krieger continues building | on KORODUR industrial floors in Krieger-grey and in the meantime the KORODUR high-quality flooring materials were supplied to Höffner projects in Berlin, Dresden and Magdeburg.
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