Robusta Gaukel: Clever technology for concrete construction sites all over the world

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Walter Grois, construction site advisor, is well-known at Germany’s construction sites

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Johannes Lißner is the right person to contact when it comes to tricky technical issues

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Before welding, the parts are exactly positioned on welding benches

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Welding by hand

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Props and bolts properly packed in a stacking pallet – a clever solution, because workers spent about 20% of their working time looking for work aids and material, according to the technical manager Johannes Lißner

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Storage facility with round column formwork

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Robusta Gaukel has evolved into a hidden champion through Swabian virtues and inventive talents. Now, 50 years after the foundation, the products of the family-owned company are used at concrete construction sites all over the world.

Whether football team or commercial enterprise, the individual people are always the crucial factor that leads to success. And also quite important for the success – and not implied in the platitude quoted – is the fact that the individualists like to work effectively in the team. At the meeting with the management team of Robusta Gaukel very soon you get the impression that both are true of them: Each and every one of them has his prominent rough edges and they obviously get on very well with one another at the same time.

The can-do attitude and temperamental entrepreneurial character of Jan...