Henning Kortmann – technology pioneer and concrete specialist

Figure: Kortmann Beton

Kortmann Beton GmbH & Co. KG based in Schüttorf was founded by Carl Kortmann in 1950

Figure: Kortmann Beton

Henning Kortmann has been managing the company for five years

Figure: Kortmann Beton

Today, even the rubble dumps are used …

Figure: Kortmann Beton

… and mixed with freshly demolished concrete to produce recycling material

Figure: Kortmann Beton

Kortmann offers a comprehensive portfolio of concrete products and precast elements ...

Figure: Kortmann Beton

… such as these precast foundations

Figure: Kortmann Beton

Around 200,000 paving blocks and concrete slabs are shipped from the factory each day

Figure: Kortmann Beton

The highlight of the factory tour is the orange-colored Kuka robot called “Wall-E”

Figure: Kortmann Beton

The production plants were modernized within an extremely short period of time including, for example, the Hess block machine shown here

Figure: Kortmann Beton

Terrace slabs and paving blocks produced in Schüttorf are sold as private-label products in around 50 “Bauen+Leben” stores

Figure: Kortmann Beton

Kortmann Beton GmbH & Co. KG was founded by Carl Kortmann in 1950; since that time, the company has been dealing in building materials for road construction, garden and landscape construction and civil engineering. The manufacture of concrete products began only a short time later. Henning Kortmann has been managing the company for five years now and has extensively modernized it.

Kortmann Beton GmbH & Co. KG, based in Schüttorf near the Dutch border, was founded by Carl Kortmann in 1950; since that time, the company has been dealing in building materials for road construction, garden and landscape construction and civil engineering. A few years later, the company started manufacturing concrete products, which allowed it to open up both domestic and international markets. From 1970, Karl Kortmann has been managing the company in the second generation; his sons, Matthias and Henning, joined him as part of the management team in 2014. This means that the company is now...