Company

We are an independent business unit of a global medium-sized corporate group largely owned by the family and manufacture goods with high quality standards.

About Wakol

WAKOL FROM PIRMASENS

We are an independent business unit of a global medium-sized corporate group largely owned by the family with over 3,300 employees and a turnover of approx. € 820 million. We employ approx. 380 staff, of whom around 200 work at the company's head office in Pirmasens in the Western Palatinate region. We successfully develop, produce and market adhesives and compounds as well as surface treatment systems with a high quality standard. With our product lines installation materials, industrial adhesives and sealing compounds, we achieve a group turnover of over € 110 million. Our market niches offer excellent growth opportunities in Germany and abroad. Our focus is always on the customer. With technically superior, user-friendly and innovative product systems and continuously improving customer-oriented service we want to secure the future markets and continue to grow with highly motivated staff.

Our demand

High demand associates you with a powerful technological partner

Sustainable economic success requires one thing above all: making a difference. And that's what your customers want and perceive. Without your consistent demands on quality and on the efficiency of your processes, in brief on the results of your work, you can't offer this difference. Intelligently employed adhesive and sealing compound technology affords numerous ways to make this difference. The demand we place on ourselves is to help you make this difference with our product systems and our expertise.

Be part of a systematic innovation process

More than 15 % of our employees are highly qualified people in development and application technology. Continuous high investment in equipment, testing and co-operation with external experts yields the greatest efficiency and flexibility. A methodologically guided innovation process and close dialogue with you ensure prompt and tangible implementation of the requirements of the technological leader of an industry with our corresponding product lines.

Quality management certificate according to ISO 9001:2015

Constant quality for your processes

Product functionality is the foundation. But only with our capability to meet tight specifications even with complex formulations do we enable you to achieve the greatest possible efficiency in your work procedures. Early investment in the optimisation of our own processes, embedded in a transparent quality organisation based on DIN EN ISO 9001:2015, and a culture of Total Quality Management are reasons for to Wakol's leading position.

Increase the efficiency in logistics and supply

Our central computer controlled production ensures not only the highest level of process control, but also a maximum of flexibility in time and packaging. While not every wish can be fulfilled, we can guarantee you optimal goods supply. Improvements in this field always pay off: we're glad to implement them for you and together with you.

Join us in assuming responsibility for our environment

Quality of the environment is part of product quality. Active processor and end consumer protection, protective handling of natural resources, foresighted implementation of measures in occupational and environmental safety always guide our actions. The priority we set in this regard forms a bond with you: transparent and open information is part of our consulting service.

WAKOL GROUP

HISTORY

2023

Expansion of the infrastructure

2020

Building up production capacities for 1K-MS adhesives

2019

Wakol and Ardex Australia become controlling shareholders in Nexus Adhesives, Melbourne

2018

Wakol becomes majority shareholder in Loba GmbH & Co. KG, Ditzingen

2015

Ardex Group becomes controlling shareholder in Wakol

2013

Building up production capacities for 1-K-PU adhesives

OUR PARTNERS

ISP Interessengemeinschaft Schweizer Parkettmarkt

SUPPLIERS

The special safety requirements when employing external companies on the premises of Wakol are described in the Wakol external company guideline. The aim is to avoid accidents with personal injury, material damage to operating equipment, as well as environmental damage. General codes of conduct for working on the factory premises are also listed.

Fremdfirmenrichtlinie und Baustellenordnung

The Wakol Group is familiar with the awareness of its Corporate Social Responsibility. In addition to complying with all applicable laws and regulations, the Wakol Group is committed to respect and promote social and ethical standards as well as protecting the environment. All suppliers and sub-suppliers are expected to follow these principles as well.

Hence, Wakol has developed a Code of Conduct for Suppliers that embraces fundamental social, ethical and ecological standards.

Code of Conduct for Suppliers

Sustainability

Your safety

The implementation of expertise and technology in processes with greater efficiency and added value requires intensive dialogue and resolve. Our employees will ensure your success. Selected professional qualification and intensive internal training in turn ensure their expertise. Possibilities for development, self-reliance and attractive career options are the source of their exceptional motivation.

Success knows no national boundaries. An internationally oriented organisational structure with its own subsidiaries and holdings and with a continually growing network of selected co-operating partners who share our philosophy and to whom we intensively convey our expertise – all this forms the framework. Even today you can rely on our unlimited support on location, in the growth regions of your industry – in Europe and beyond.

Thanks to our broad technological expertise, you need to rely on just one partner. And without compromises we can advise you on the best application, while also creating a decisive difference from the interplay of different technologies in our product systems. For water-based, solvent-based and reactive systems, or for powdery, cement-based or anhydrite systems, or even for hot-melts.

You'll find our product lines and organisational structures strictly focussed on your industry:

parquet and floor layers on the side of the laying materials; on the side of the industrial systems the upholstered furniture and mattress industry, the metal packaging industry, the shoe industry, the construction and automotive supplier industry. You'll profit across industries from the resulting synergy effects in the technology, for example in raw materials and in the industry crossing innovation process.