Bandstahl-Service-Hagen GmbH is not only an innovative and growth-oriented service center in Hagen, Germany but a reliable and experienced partner for the automobile industry.
Besides the variety of hot-rolled steel strip, stained or unstained and available in all common quality categories, we also produce cold-rolled and surface finished strips. Our products are produced in modern and high-quality cracking plants, operated by highly motivated employees and enhanced by repeatable manufacturing processes. Those processes are subject to strict quality conformance tests in order to meet our customers’ requirements. In addition to that, our corporate policy combines the requirements of quality, environmental, occupational safety and energy policy and we, Bandstahl-Service-Hagen GmbH, adhere to the responsibilities in each of those areas.
Quality, occupational safety, health and environmental protection as well as the careful treatment of resources are a fixed component of our corporate goals and principle that constitutes the basis of every action. The adherence to those principles is essential to the company’s success.
Bandstahl-Service-Hagen GmbH is traditionally eager to provide the most effective and transparent quality management systems. In 2003 we obtained the first certificate under the terms of the former standard DIN EN ISO 9001. As a result, it was only natural to implement further steps to guarantee an efficient quality management system.
Therefore a strong customer focus and intensive communication among our employees are two major parameters for record performances for and with our customers. Since not only our customers from the automobile sector demand high standards, the same principle applies to our customers among the electronics sector or other press, stamp or drawing companies.
The IATF 16949 certification – BSH is well-positioned for the future
Since the IATF 16949 certification is a further milestone for corporate short- and long term success, intensive preparations for the necessary audits, important and non-negligible investments in machines and plants as well as employee training eventually paid off.
“For us, obtaining the certification is the final affirmation for persistent efforts to improve system, process, and product quality,” says CEO Michael Leber, “we are proud to announce that we fully meet the requirements of the IATF 16949 certification.”
The IATF 16949 certification combines the requirements of the former ISO 9001 certification for automobile supplier’s quality management system. The requirements to obtain the certification are based on the default values provided by the International Automotive Task Force (IATF). One of the major norms is not only the debugging within each process but the elimination of errors at earlier stages in order to prevent errors from occurring.
Approximately 30 percent of the automobile manufacturers worldwide joined the requirements of the nine IATF members. Among those members are BMW, Chrysler, Daimler, Fiat, Ford, General Motors, PSA, Renault and Volkswagen.
Despite all adversities in the global economy we, as the corporate management, are positively looking ahead because quality will always prevail.
