German Production Boards for the Middle East

Assyx DuroBoards^® for Saudi Arabia

Fig. 1 The DuroBoards^® of
Assyx are manufactured at their factory site in Andernach-Miesenheim, from where they are carried by truck to the nearby river boat container harbor in Andernach. The production boards are then shipped from the international port in Rotterdam within 20 days to Saudi Arabia.

 For four years now, the Andernach-based company Assyx GmbH & Co. KG has been manufacturing the Assyx DuroBoards^®, a high-quality production board that is applied for the production of concrete products. For the first time, the company has now supplied a customer in Saudi Arabia.

Following a successful introduction in the German and European markets, where Assyx already sold more than 150,000 boards, the company has meanwhile become an important business partner in the Middle East. After having supplied companies in Kuwait, Dubai and Oman in the last few years, the first order has been awarded from Hail, an oasis city in the north of Saudi Arabia.

In October 2009, the first contact was made on the German exhibition booth at Saudi Build, the International Construction Technology and Building Materials Exhibition in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia). „Our new customer was...