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The Gretsch-Unitas Group of Companies
Le sens de l´ouverture
La ventaja del sistema
Vorsprung mit System
Progettiamo sicurezza
Securing technology for you
Securing technology for you
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We have a vision.
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We have a vision.
The shape follows the function. The simple design impresses with its classical elegance. The BAUHAUS property fitting is an eyecatcher for doors in a deman-ding environment. An aesthetic fitting, making it a pleasure to open a door and awakening curiosity in the world beyond: the world of the Gretsch-Unitas group of companies.
A company with tradition and future .........................................................................Welcome 4
Securing technology for you .............................................................................Philosophy 6
Milestones of a history of success ...........................The group of companies in overview 8
The producing companies ............................................................................................... 10
The service companies .................................................................................................. 1�
Looking back at the history .............................................................................................. 14
Innovative power and know-how .............................................Development and production 16
Opening, moving, closing, securing ......................................................................... Products 18
The pillars of success ............................................................................................. Product sectors �0
Global – local ......................................................................................................... Sales and service ��
Just-in-time – to any place ............................................................................... Logistics �4
Utilising joint chances ............................................................................................ Our employees �6
Worldwide presence ................................. Sales and marketing companies and production facilities �8
Imprint ....................................................................................................................................................... �0
Contents
BAUH
AUS
prop
erty
fitting
The Gretsch-Unitas Group of Companies
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A company with tradition and future.
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With innovative products and an efficient sales structure, Julius and Michael von Resch see to the dynamic development of the Gretsch-Unitas Group of Companies. The prime example of this successful strategy is the tilt-turn fittings system UNI-JET. A product system, whose triumphal march around the world star-ted in the mid 1970s and has grown with increasing requirements.
... to the world of Gretsch-Unitas. For more than a
century, we have been involved with products and
technologies, which most people have contact with
quite naturally in everyday life, without being aware of
their complex importance. Our profession is the opening
and moving, closing and locking of windows and doors,
as well as functional and secure facility management.
The company started in 1907 in a small workshop in
Stuttgart-Feuerbach and is active today as an inter-
national concern. The family-controlled company, with
Gretsch-Unitas GmbH as the holding company, counts
amongst the most renowned suppliers of construction
fittings and security equipment worldwide.
In its growing history of success, the Gretsch-Unitas
group of companies has made a decisive contribution
in the comfortable and secure functioning of construc-
tion fittings and locking systems. Visionary innovative
spirit, research geared to targets and intensive deve-
lopment work, have always led to market-orientated
results. Properly thought-out and secure complete
solutions, as well as an extensive service for windows,
doors and automatic entrance systems, are available to
our customers all over the world.
People and ideas, products and systems are hidden
behind these services, and we would now like to
present these to you in this brochure.
Welcome …
A company with tradition and future.
UNI-JET tilt
-turn fitting
Michael von ReschJulius von Resch
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Securing technology for you.
Comfort & security
Customer service
Innovations
Overall solutions
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The multi-functional property door fulfils several require-ments at the same time: Access control, escape door con-trol, escape door suitability, burglary protection and barrier free construction. With these services, the product fits perfectly into the range on offer, in the sense of the philoso-phy: an optimal overall solution, where innovation, quality, comfort, safety and customer service intermesh reliably.
Comfort and security are given the highest priority
when opening and closing doors and windows. With an
extensive range of modern construction fittings, safety
equipment and automatic entrance systems, we fulfil
these requirements with the best quality. In so doing,
we do not just concentrate on the individual product,
but create overall solutions according to current market
requirements.
Building security and barrier free construction, as
well as the combination of the latest technology with
user-friendly handling, are topics of the moment. The
Gretsch-Unitas group of companies has permanently
left its mark on the market with its future-orientated
innovations, and has set standards that point the way.
All over the world, our systems contribute to preventing
dangerous situations, reducing risks, limiting damage
and protecting both people and property.
Our overall range of services covers planning, imple-
mentation and service. Research and development
follows the central idea of creating the functional
properties of windows and doors in a technically ever
better, easier and more secure way. Mature mechanics
and intelligent electronics work together ideally. We
meet the growing requirements in modern architec-
ture, both in our development work, as well as in our
energy-conscious building methods.
The main focus of our thoughts and actions is always
the product, with its benefits for people. Our customers
primarily profit from this, as we are always conceiving
new and reliable systems for them, and offering them
in addition individual solutions, which are specific to
their property. For these reasons, we are valued world-
wide as a reliable partner. At the same time, we sup-
port and challenge our over 4,000 employees within
the group of companies around the globe with an open
company policy and an extensive eduction programme.
In so doing, we are conscious of our responsibility in
respecting national cultures and maintaining locations.
The synergistic interplay of all these factors is the basis
for the fulfilling of our principle “Securing technology
for you”.
Philosophy
Securing technology for you.
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Comfort & security
Customer service
Overall solutions
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Milestones of a history of success.
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For large area elements made from timber, PVC and aluminium, parallel slide and tilt fittings, lift-slide and lift-tilt-slide fittings, slide-fold elements, horizontal and vertical pivot fittings, provide safe and comfortable serv-ices for opening, closing and moving. These systems offer solutions for all materials, shapes and requirements in modern window technology.
Inventor’s spirit, innovative power and a will to expand,
mark more than a hundred years of eventful company
history. The imaginative engineer, Viktor Gretsch, star-
ted manufacturing pull cord fan-light openers, window
stays and small fittings in 1907, and three years later
he made the businessman, Johann Maus, his partner
and Managing Director. His descendants, Julius and
Michael von Resch are now the third generation to
manage the Gretsch-Unitas group of companies today.
With the continuous expansion of the product pro-
gramme, the first patents and a continually growing
international sales already followed in the 19�0s. After
the turmoil of the �nd World War, the company dared
to start again in 1948, and the success of today’s
company is based on this. Since the mid 1970s, further
production companies have been integrated, and the
company has created its own service operations under
the umbrella of the group of companies. Today, a highly
productive network of competence offers high-quality
compatible products and services for everything to
do with windows, doors, entrance systems and in the
sector of facility management.
The large amount of branch experience and the syner-
gistic association additionally make it possible to react
to the requirements of the market in a manner relevant
to present times, and also to enable new trends to be
set at the same time, due to visionary developments.
The roles of the producing and service companies
supplement each other ideally and guarantee short
development cycles through to series maturity. The
reliable inter-company communication permanently
ensures the leading market position of the Gretsch-
Unitas group of companies.
The group of companies in overview
Milestones of a history of success. Fitti
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BKS GmbH Velbert
With more than 100 years of expe-
rience, technical know-how and high-
quality products, the renowned BKS
GmbH has belonged to the group of
companies since 198�. The BKS brand
has been a synonym for safety, quality
and functionality for locking procedures
for more than 100 years. Locks, locking
cylinders and master keyed suites for
door construction, as well as property
and escape door fittings, are produced
in the extremely modern production
plant. The large range of variants,
and the flexible compatibility of all the
products, must be highlighted here.
The growing importance of electronics,
access control and escape door control,
has resulted in innovative system solu-
tions. BKS GmbH has its own customer
and training centre for customer care
and employee training.
ATS GmbH
Automatik-Tür-Systeme
Rheda-Wiedenbrück
ATS GmbH Automatik-Tür-Systeme has
been part of the Gretsch-Unitas group
of companies since �001. ATS GmbH
Automatik-Tür-Systeme has made a
name for itself throughout Europe with
automatic sliding doors, revolving door
systems and all glass sliding walls.
Based on a polished modular construc-
tion system, solutions are developed to
meet individual requirements. The latest
techniques, high quality materials, as
well as tried and tested functionality
and security, are a matter of course,
while access control systems can also
be integrated. The door systems provide
planners with a great deal of freedom in
their designs. Experienced advice and
service teams ensure local proximity to
the customer over a wide area.
Gretsch-Unitas GmbH BaubeschlägeDitzingen
One of the largest manufacturers
of construction fittings in the world,
Gretsch-Unitas GmbH Baubeschläge
has been located in Ditzingen near
Stuttgart since the 1970s. Alongside
the spacious works buildings and
administration area, there is also an
exhibition and advice centre for product
innovations, as well as training rooms
for seminars. After all, in addition to the
extensive range of quality products, the
main plant in the group of companies
also places great value on the further
education of employees within the
company, as well as on specialist
seminars for architects, planners and
the specialist trade. Current topics,
such as facility management and barrier
free construction, have been increasing
in importance over the last few years,
and are reflected in the products and
services of the company.
The producing companies
Gretsch-Unitas GmbH
Baubeschläge
Ditzingen, Germany
BKS GmbH
Velbert, Germany
ATS GmbH Automatik-Tür-
Systeme, Rheda-Wieden-
brück, Germany
Worldwide production sites of the group of companies
FERCO International S.A.S.
Sarrebourg, France
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Gretsch-Unitas Yapı Elemanları San. ve Tic. A.Ş.Istanbul
This company was created in �001
from the merger of the Turkish market
leader in the sector of window fittings,
and the Turkish sales office of the
Gretsch-Unitas group of companies.
Today, high quality fittings for worldwide
use are manufactured using modern
technology at the production site. In
addition, Gretsch-Unitas Yapı A.Ş. has
grown into one of the major sales units
of the Gretsch-Unitas group of compa-
nies. The company is not only market
leader in Turkey, but also opens up new
markets in the Middle East, in Central
Asia and in North Africa.
FERCO International S.A.S.Sarrebourg
France’s major producer of construction
fittings was founded in 19�4 and has
been part of the Gretsch-Unitas group
of companies since 1977. It was at
this time that the JET tilt-turn fitting
provided the company with an excellent
image at home and abroad with this
successful product. FERCO International
S.A.S. is growing. Additional production
halls are being set up for production
and new processes are being developed
for production and surface finishing.
Today, the operation in Sarrebourg
manufactures using extremely modern
technology. The logistics centre
connected to the company has a high
capacity hi-bay storage facility, with
space for several thousand palettes.
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Istanbul, Turkey
FERRIC HARDWARE INC.
Montreal, Canada
G.U Building Materials (Jinan)
Co., Ltd., Jinan,
People’s Republic of China
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AGENA GmbHDitzingen
Services in the sectors of organisation
and information processing are tasks
carried out by this company, which was
created in 1981 from the data processing
department of Gretsch-Unitas GmbH
Baubeschläge in Ditzingen. AGENA GmbH
provides its products and services both to
companies within the group, as well as to
the open market. AGENA GmbH makes
the necessary computer centre capacity
available to its sister companies, and
looks after the application software for all
the branches worldwide. In addition, many
branches profit from the services carried
out by the company, in particular in the
sectors of consulting, development and
customising in the SAP R/� environment.
Planning, implementation and care of
networks, as well as computer centre
services, are also part of the product
portfolio.
Gretsch-Unitas Logistik GmbHDitzingen
All the logistics services for deliveries
to the worldwide customers of the
Gretsch-Unitas group of companies
are organised quickly and reliably by
Gretsch-Unitas Logistik GmbH. The
company’s activities include storage,
customer-specific packaging of finished
goods and the fully-automatic distribu-
tion of packages according to freight
forwarder. EDP suited to requirements
controls not only all the logistical
sequences, it also gives every customer
the advantage of being able to following
the current order status through the
internet. Modern feed strategies with
the production plants and external
suppliers ensure a high level of
availability of goods at all times.
Gretsch-Unitas Logistik GmbH
Ditzingen, Germany
AGENA GmbH
Ditzingen, Germany
tts Tür und Tor-Service
GmbH & Co. KG
Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany
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Faci
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t and organisation system GEMOS
The service companies
tts Tür und Tor-Service GmbH & Co. KGRheda-Wiedenbrück
As a competent service provider
connected to ATS GmbH Automatik-Tür-
Systeme, tts Tür und Tor-Service GmbH
& Co. KG offers a reliable service, with
maintenance and test services for
everything to do with automatic doors
and the applicable programme within
the group of companies. This includes
regular safety checks according to the
valid legal regulations. Qualified service
teams, specially equipped vehicles and
a well-structured service network en-
able responses within �4 hours to save
time and costs. tts Tür und Tor-Service
GmbH & Co. KG is certified according
to EN ISO 9001, SCC and tests all
automatic door systems to the latest
technical levels.
ela-soft GmbH & Co. KGBerlin
Since 1990, ela-soft GmbH & Co. KG has
developed manufacturer-neutral manage-
ment systems for security, building and
communication techniques. With the
successful GEMOS system, which
integrates all the technical equipment into
a central, simple-to-operate interface,
ela-soft GmbH & Co. KG counts amongst
the market and technology leaders in
this branch. At the Head Office in Berlin,
and at the branches in Wiesbaden and
Düsseldorf, highly-qualified employees are
involved in the development of specialised
software and hardware solutions, and
offer service and project control close to
the customer during the start-up phase,
as well as long-term care, maintenance,
training and system adaptations. Over
�00 interfaces and more than 400
installed systems prove the many years
of experience and the success of the
products from ela-soft GmbH & Co. KG.
Intelligent management systems for facilities have long been a reality and supplement our range. For example, the successful GEMOS system combines the compe-tence from other sectors of the group of companies, such as access control, escape door technology, mechanical and mechatronic security.
ela-soft GmbH & Co. KG
Berlin, Germany
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1890 1900 1910 19�0 19�0 1940
1870 The creation of BKS locks goes back to 1870, when the company Damm & Ladwig was founded in Velbert, and to 190�, when the companies Boge & Kasten, Rheinische Türschließer-Fabrik were founded in Solingen.
1907 Viktor Gretsch started manufacturing the first small fittings in Stuttgart-Feuerbach.
1912 The fan-light opener VENTUS F was developed.
1919 AERO ventilations supplemented the programme. They were forerunners to the UNITAS sound absorbing fans.
1920 Gretsch-Unitas received the patent rights for the IDEAL pivot bearing.
1924 Gretsch-Unitas patented its sliding door fittings.
1928 The further-developed DIXI window stay appears in the market.
1931 The KASTRUM horizontal and vertical pivot bearings expanded the production programme.
1932 Patent registration for Helios roller bearings, a forerunner to the fittings for slide-fold elements.
1932 The first smoke extraction systems with crank gear for staircases and public buildings appeared in the product range.
1934 FERCO International S.A.S. in Sarrebourg started producing construction fittings with 1� employees.
1938 The BKS round cylinder, which is still used today, was patented.
1939 – 1945 The �nd World War brings a major setback, as Gretsch-Unitas is duty-bound to supply armaments.
1950 The first panic locks were introduced to the European market.
1954 Gretsch-Unitas developed horizontal pivot fittings for an opening of 160°, compared with just 90° previously. This development made it easier to clean the exterior panes of glass.
1956 The first burglary inhibiting locking cylinders appeared.
1973 The company moved from Stuttgart-Feuerbach to Ditzingen: Gretsch-Unitas had a new Head Office location.
1907
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1960 1970 1980 1990 �000 �010
1975 Gretsch-Unitas registered the patents for a sound absorbing fan with slider and with optimised sound absorbing properties and improved cleaning possibilities.
1977 Gretsch-Unitas acquired shares in the largest French construction fitting manufacturer, FERCO International S.A.S. The JET tilt-turn fitting conquers the world market.
1977 ATS GmbH Automatik-Tür-Systeme is founded in Rheda-Wiedenbrück.
1979 The first G.U-SECURY multipoint door locks for doors are presented at the Deubau trade fair in Essen.
1980 Gretsch-Unitas brings parallel slide and tilt fittings to success through further development, and registers several related patents.
1983 The group of companies was integrated with BKS, the most traditional German manufacturer of locking cylinders, master keyed suits, locks, door closers and panic fittings.
1984 ATS GmbH Automatik-Tür-Systeme sold the first self-produced automatic sliding doors.
1989 BKS GmbH developed a lock with an automatic extending latch.
1995 With increasing requirements for qualified services dealing with automatic doors, the company tts Tür und Tor-Service GmbH & Co. KG was founded.
1996 Gretsch-Unitas presented the automatic multipoint door lock, G.U-SECURY Automatic
2000 ela-soft GmbH & Co. KG was purchased, which had developed the successful facility management and organisa-tion system GEMOS.
2001 The companies ATS GmbH Automatik-Tür-Systemeand tts Tür und Tor-Service GmbH & Co. KG became mem-bers of the Gretsch-Unitas group of companies.
2002 Gretsch-Unitas Yapı Elemanları San. ve Tic. A.Ş. started operations in Istanbul.
2005 With the MKS – MasterKeySystem, BKS offers the first internet order platform for locking systems.
2006 Gretsch-Unitas Yapı Elemanları San. ve Tic. A.Ş. successfully introduced the Corvus Plus tilt-turn fittings in Turkey and the adjacent countries.
2006 The German Standards EDITIONEN GmbH chose BKS as the brand of the century.
Looking back over more than a century of success
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Innovative power and know-how.
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Escape and rescue routes should protect and save human life. The strictly defined requirements for func-tionality and security require an intelligent combination of mechanics and electronics. Our locks and fittings for emergency exits and panic doors reliably fulfil all the requirements for a safe operation in case of emergency.
Ground-breaking innovations are inseparably
connected with the history and present times of the
Gretsch-Unitas group of companies. After all, inten-
sive research and development work has always been
given a particularly high priority. A lively exchange of
experiences between the development departments of
the individual companies ensures the constant growth
in profitable know-how.
Even before the design of the product itself, the deve-
lopment process starts in the research of principles.
Our engineers test new kinds of materials and new
techniques with respect to further product optimisation.
In so doing, we cooperate closely with universities,
research institutes and branch experts.
The supreme maxim for every product development
is looking at the whole. We investigate the reciprocal
effects of every detail with functional, architectural,
ecological, production and processing specific require-
ments – our high quality products conform to these.
This approach applies both for innovative construction
fittings, as well as for control technical software
solutions. Architects, planners, building contractors,
window and door manufacturers, value our methods
of product development.
Highly qualified specialist personnel implement the
results of the research and market-specific knowledge
in products and services suited to practice. In so doing,
we always try to realise our ideas in a customer-orien-
tated way. A permanent quality control guarantees
our business partners maximum security – from the
individual parts produced with precision, through to the
optimal functioning of complex systems.
Development and production
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Opening, moving, closing, securing.
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On large lift-slide elements with high sash weights, the HS-SPEED Limiter prevents an acceleration of the sash, and ensures in this way that personal injury and damage to the property itself is avoided. An innovative product, which completely fulfils our ambitious requirements with respect to security and operating comfort.
Over �00 patents speak for themselves. These include
major system solutions, such as the multipoint door
lock G.U-SECURY Automatic and the comfortable
parallel slide and tilt fitting.
Overall, the Gretsch-Unitas group of companies offers
a complete programme of more than 100,000 individ-
ual parts, together with numerous system solutions for
the equipping and control of window and door systems.
All the products conform to the highest requirements
with respect to quality, comfort and security, and are
available to the market at a fair price-performance
ratio. In addition to the standard programme, we
realise individual special solutions for our customers.
This applies both for construction fittings, as well as
for hardware and software solutions in facility manage-
ment and in the security sector.
One particular strength is production specific to a
property. This is where we consolidate the competence
held by our production and service companies for a
project, and provide the customer with a coordinated
package of services from a single source.
Facility management and barrier free construction
are topics with future, and we have already been
dealing with them from an early stage. We implement
tailor-made solutions from planning through to mecha-
nical and electronic components for business premises
and private houses, which imply simple operation and
flexible use.
This overall competence makes us different. It is the
consistent implementation of our claim to make the
opening and closing of windows and doors – incor-
porating materials and techniques of our time – ever
more comfortable, easy and secure.
Products
HS-S
PEED Limiter
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The pillars of success.
Window technology
Tilt-turn fittings
Side hung fittings
Lift-slide and lift-tilt-slide fittings
Parallel slide and tilt fittings
Slide-fold fittings
Horizontal pivot fittings
Vertical pivot fittings
Fan-light openers
Ventilation technology
Window handles
Smoke and heat evacuation
systems (RWA)
Accessories for builder‘s
hardware
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Automatic entrance systems
Sliding doors
Swing door drives
Revolving doors
Security sluice doors
Individual access systems
All glass sliding walls
Door technology
Mortise locks
Panic locks
Multipoint door locks
Electronic locks
Locking cylinders
Master keyed suites
Fittings
Panic exit devices
Door hinges
Door closers
Accessories for builder‘s
hardware
Patch fittings
Management systems
Facility management systems
Access control
Video monitoring
Floor space sensors
KeyManager
ObS – Order by Scanning
Product sectors
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Global – local.
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Locking systems from the series are suitable for the planning and administration of master keyed suites for many different access hierarchies, as these permit a mechanical or an electronic operation. With a large number of different individual locking cylinders with individual keys assigned in each case, access authorisation can be controlled individually.
In over 40 countries, more than 400 people are
employed in the sales and marketing companies of
the Gretsch-Unitas group of companies. This decen-
tralised sales structure has many different advantages.
On the one hand, we can recognise the requirements
in the applicable region, and the desires of our local
customers, while on the other hand, our presence on
location gives us a high level of flexibility. Short dis-
tances and a fast, reliable service make technical and
cost-optimised solutions possible, perfectly in tune with
the needs of the people in their environment.
In addition to sales-promoting measures for the trade,
our customer service above all covers internet-based
solutions, which help make work easier to an enormous
extent in many respects. For example, orders can be
dealt with quickly and easily with the customer-orien-
tated ObS – Order by Scanning system, which at the
same time makes internal warehouse administration
considerably easier. The current order status can be
called up via the internet at any time.
The CIS – Customer Information System also offers the
same advantage, an information and ordering platform
for all sectors of the group of companies.
Here the customer will find, in addition to pure order
handling, useful information relating to the articles,
right through to an online availability check.
The web-based planning and ordering platform
MKS – MasterKeySystem was developed specifically
for master keyed suites. All these systems make order
handling simpler and ensure that delivery times are
reduced, combined with maximum services for our
customers. In addition, we make a web-based service
module available, with which detailed and complex
tenders are possible.
With the KeyManager, we offer a simple and time-
saving administration software for the creation and
control of master keyed suites. For window and door
manufacturers, our hardware managing programmes
and hardware data service offer optimal tools to
determine sets of fittings and to produce individual
fitting solutions.
This whole range of customer-orientated services,
in collaboration with our partners, ensures security,
transparency and confidence.
Sales and service
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Just-in-time – to any place.
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Barrier free construction affects anyone with restricted mobility and is therefore essential in shopping centres, public as well as private buildings, hospitals and nursing homes. With the barrier-free creation of threshold-less accesses and automated sliding door solutions, we open up the way to unrestricted freedom of movement.
The success of a group of companies, that is active
worldwide, is based last not least on reliable distri-
bution. Gretsch-Unitas Logistik GmbH looks after the
distribution sequences and tasks centrally for the
companies within the group.
In addition to making storage capacity available, all
the distribution-technical measures are controlled
from here, from customer-specific commissioning and
manufacturing, via packaging, to the dispatch on time.
The fact that the company has the latest technical
equipment ensures that orders are handled smoothly.
Software tailor-made for the high levels of require-
ments control the overall process sequences in detail,
from receipt of materials to delivery. This transparent
documentation makes it possible for the customer to
follow the current order status on the internet at any
time.
Close collaboration with the worldwide sales branches
of the Gretsch-Unitas group of companies guarantees
that an adapted range is in stock at the relevant
locations, and therefore goods are quickly available
to the customer.
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Utilising joint chances.
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An extensive seminar and training programme for various target groups ensures well-founded specialist knowledge and makes product selection easier. We regularly give training sessions, for example, with respect to handling the G.U-SECURY multipoint door lock in its many variants. With this offer, we create a good basis for joint success with our customers.
Economic success can only be achieved and main-
tained in the long term with well educated and
motivated employees. The Gretsch-Unitas group of
companies feels itself under an obligation to follow this
principle, and steers its company policy accordingly.
Our commitment starts with a varied range of training
places, in technical, commercial and IT professions,
together with courses of studies at vocational colleges.
By training young people, we create a healthy basis for
the future of the company.
The existing employees, which now amount to more
than 4,000 worldwide, are continuously further qua-
lified and trained. Many of today’s executives started
their career within the group of companies. Further-
more, we ensure that information is transparent all all
levels and we care for open communication within the
company. We also take on our social responsibility,
in that we give disadvantaged people the chance to
get a job.
This company structure, geared to the wellbeing of the
employees, also guarantees a good operating climate
and long-term loyalty to the company, even in days
of hard competition. As the Gretsch-Unitas group of
companies, we build on the fact that our success can
only ever be the joint success of all our employees.
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Worldwide presence.
�9Sales and marketing companies and production facilities
Gretsch-Unitas GmbH Baubeschläge Ditzingen (Germany)
BKS GmbH Velbert (Germany)
ATS GmbH Automatik-Tür-Systeme Rheda-Wiedenbrück (Germany)
FERCO International S.A.S. Sarrebourg (France)
Gretsch-Unitas Yapı Elemanları San. ve Tic. A.Ş.Istanbul (Turkey)
FERRIC HARDWARE INC. Montreal (Canada)
G.U Building Materials (Jinan) Co., Ltd. Jinan (People’s Republic of China)
■ Sales companies within the group of companies worldwide
■ Production sites of the group of companies worldwide
Gretsch-Unitas GmbH Baubeschläge Ditzingen (Germany)
BKS GmbH Velbert (Germany)
ATS GmbH Automatik-Tür-Systeme Rheda-Wiedenbrück (Germany)
FERCO Ferrures de Bâtiment Inc., Laval/Quebec (Canada)
G.U Hardware, Inc.Newport News (USA)
G.U Herrajes S.A.Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Gretsch-Unitas Ltd.Coventry (Great Britain)
G.U Nederland B.V.Eindhoven (Netherlands)
Gretsch-Unitas Belgium N.V.Brasschaat (Belgium)
FERCO International S.A.S.Sarrebourg (France)
BKS France S.A.S.Paris (France)
Procomsa S.A.Zamudio-Bizkaia (Spain)
Cruzfer Lda.Rio de Mouro (Portugal)
Gretsch-Unitas AGRüdtligen (Switzerland)
G.U Baubeschläge Austria GmbH, Salzburg (Austria)
G.U Italia S.R.L.Cavaion (Italy)
Skandi Beslag A/SJyllinge (Denmark)
G.U Polska Sp. z.o.o.Poznan (Poland)
G.U - stavební kování CZ,spol. s.r.o. Prague (Czech Republic)
G.U Slovensko, s.r.o.Bratislava (Slovakia)
G.U Szilas KftKerepestarcsa (Hungary)
G.U d.o.o. Karolvac (Croatia)
G.U Gradevinski okovi d.o.o.Zepce (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
G.U Bulgaria SOLLCSofia (Bulgaria)
G.U Skopje DOOELSkopje (Macedonia)
G.U Okovi d.o.o. Novi Beograd (Serbia)
G.U Hellas S.A.Thessaloniki (Greece)
Gretsch-Unitas Yapı Elemanları San. ve Tic. A.Ş.Istanbul (Turkey)
OÜ VEDLERSTallin (Estonia)
G.U Furnitura SIA Riga (Latvia)
UAB Gretsch-Unitas BalticVilnius (Lithuania)
G.U Feronerie S.R.L.Chisinau (Moldavia)
G.U Ferrom Com. S.R.L.Bucharest (Romania)
OOO G.U FurnituraMoscow (Russia)
OOO G.U PolycomNovosibirsk (Russia)
OOO G.U FurnituraMinsk (White Russia)
OOO G.U UkraineKiev (Ukraine)
OOO G.U KasachstanAlmaty (Kazakhstan)
G.U Middle East FZCO Dubai (United Arab Emirates)
Gretsch-Unitas Japan Ltd.Tokyo (Japan)
G.U International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Shanghai (People’s Republic of China)
The Gretsch-Unitas Group of Companies
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