Step by step 1956-59

1956

02.01.1956 - Start of HUGA's successful history

Things aren't always difficult at the beginning - as the first years of HUGA prove. Hubert Gaisendrees and his wife Rosalinde built up HUGA with personal commitment, pioneering spirit and a clear vision. From the beginning, both placed a great deal of importance in brand quality and loyalty to their location. Today, 50 years later the four plants, HUGA plants I-IV, are still within view of Osnabrücker Landstrasse. Jobs are created locally: Quality made in Germany - made by HUGA.

1956

Hubert Gaisendrees Roalinde Gaisendrees

The 29-year old carpenter Hubert Gaisendrees started with his own business. Together with his wife Rosalinde, he manufactured and solid attic stairs with the HUGA brand name. Commitment from the beginning - The stairs were sold from a car and trailer.

1957

The first employees were taken on.

1959 The first HUGA property: 7500sqm on Osnabrücker Landstrasse 134 in Gütersloh- Avenwedde. Here is a 600sqm production hall was built, the forerunner of HUGA plant I.

1959 start of building HUGA plant I

1960-68

A very successful start - new products, steady growth

HUGA grows. New product ideas require more suace and additional employees. Hubert Gaisendrees realised at a very early stage that only efficient sales can secure long-term growth. As HUGA produces top brand quality, cooperation with the timber trade was obvious. This cooperation, despite experiencing many changes, is still the decisive sales and distribution to this day and this will continue to be so in the future too.

1962 - 63

Production of cross-banded door casings and planed timber. Innovative HUGA ideas: Import and trade with African round timbers. Quality needs suitable partners - sales through the stock-holding timber trade. Number of employees: 20

1968

The company side is far too small. 600sqm of land have been bought on the other side of the road. Construction of a warehouse - 1800 sqm for raw materials and finished goods.

Form follows function 1970-78

The decade of trendsetting HUGA doorframes

Those who have a nose for what they do see innovations ealier than the rest. HUGA uses new production methods to manufacture contemporary products. And is a therefore decisive step faster than the rest of the market. In the 1970s it was the new type of doorframes, which are still produced today. They were followed by new surfaces and door elements with special functions. This process needs technical knowledge and the will to continously improve the finer details. When it comes to innovations, HUGA sets the pace. The current product developments are a proof for the high quality level that HUGA is setting for their own products.

1972

Birth of the HUGA Variant doorframe using the latest production technology. Ready to fit, triple-layered doorframe with veneered architraves and corner mouldings throughout, produced in the folding system.

1975

First HUGA trade fair appearance at the interzum, Cologne. Nationwide expansion of field sales.

HUGA in Cologne		HUGA-Türen - die natürlichste Verbindung von Raum zu Raum

1977

Number of employees: 55

1978 As an answer to the new methods of assembling and installing doorframes, HUGA is bringing a new type of frame to life. The HUGA Formzarge (moulded frame). Setting up the production for HUGA door leafs. Trade fair presence at the construction suppliers fair Constructa, Hannover.

HUGA- newspaper HUGA plant II

German design 1980-86

Growth, changes and an accident

Product diversity grows enormously in the 1980s. Entry into the technically demanding functional doors segment for public and commercial buildings requires new structures in the whole company. HUGA does not rest on its laurels, but instead faces the market's qualityand flexibility demands - including at company level, which people on the outside don't see. For example, through permanent optimisation of the production controls and warehouse logistics. The company's own fleet of vehicles ensures reliability and adherence to delivery dates for our customers in the whole of Europe.

1980

Purchase of 32.500sqm, Osnabrücker Landstrasse 20. Construction of HUGA plant II. HUGA door production starts up in the 10.000 sqm production hall.

HUGA innovation: Real wood veneer doors and real wood veneer, upright door rebates. Entrepreneurial courage with foresight - investments are higher than annual turnover. number of employers: 125

1983

Company's own distribution warehouse in Augsburg.

1984

Extension of production space to 16.000 sqm. 2nd distribution warehouses in Lampertheim, especially for the Frankfurt/ Mannheim region.

HUGA at the leading construction suppliers' trade fair, BAU in Munich.

15.03.1984: Fire in the lacquering line!

It could have been worse - Thanks to modern safety engeneering and the fast response of the fire service only a few days' production lost.

1985

Double premiere at the Interzum Cologne: HUGA T30 fire elements. HUGA-Karat - Directly coated decorative surface, as an alternative to a veneered surface. Parallel development of the HUGA functional door range for public and commercial buildings:

Doors and elements for every design aspect: fire and smoke control, sound insulation, radition and burglar proof, wet and moist rooms and appartement entrances. Number of employees: 172

1986

The type of company is changed to HUGA - Hubert Gaisendrees Gmbh & Co. KG. Entry into the RAL Gütegemeinschaft, a voluntary step towards long-term quality assurance.

Beyond the pale 1990-97

Quality offensive with ISO certificate and HUGA plant III

At HUGA, quality begins a long way ahead of the finished product. It is like a central thread that winds its way through all parts of the business. No wonder that in 1996, HUGA was the first German door element manfacturer to obtain the ISO certificate. Since 2003, DIN EN ISO 9001 has been replaced DIN EN ISO 9001 : 2000 at HUGA.

In 1996, the company's own training and exhibition centre is opened. Trading partners, skilled personnel and of cause fitters are trained here. Even the police are given an informative presentation by HUGA on everything functional doors do nowadays. Training and qualification are a long-term investment in the HUGA brand's quality, which along with service and customer focus, ensure success.

1991

Commitment in the new federal states with field sales service throughout and presence at the construction industry trade fair in Leipzig, the trade fair city.

1992

HUGA plant III is built on a site of 51.000 sqm at Osnabrücker Landstrasse 139. First step - The warehouse and logistics centre with a stock of 70.000 parts.

1994

Thanks to successful warehouse cooperations with mjor customers - Augsburg location closed. Trade fair participation at the Bautec, Berlin.

1995

In HUGA plant III, a short-cycle press starts up on a 21.000 sqm production area for direct lamination of melamine papers on different substrates for jamb casing and lining boards and door decks for producing doors and moulded frames.

HUGA innovation: DURAT. The decorative surface with decisive functional advantages. In natural wood patterns and plain colours. HUGA thinks its developments through to the very end. With HUGAFLOOR, the coordinated laminate flooring range.

HUGAFLOOR with modern stone decors Bianco Sardo combined with Carrara

1996

Punctually, in time for HUGA's 40th anniversary: HUGA is the first German manufacturer of door elements to receive the certificate for a quality management system satisfying the requirements of DIN EN ISO 9001. Hubert Gaisendrees celebrates with 341 employees. Opening of the training and exhibition centre in new buildings at Osnabrücker Landstrasse 139. At the Bautec, Berlin, HUGA presents its first internet site.

1997

DURAT beech moulded door frame exklsiv

Europe's most modern door finishing line starts up in HUGA plant III. Special options: Production facilities for round and ogee edges on door leaves. Start of the HUGA door range: exklusiv.

innovative processes by high-tech 2000-2006 Paths to a successful future New costing and estimating software, new logo, new certification. New media revolutionise cooperation with customers. Following in the footsteps of the founder of the company, who died in May 2000, his sons Horst and Dieter Gaisendrees take over the business and pick up the new media challenge. The HUGA Product and Design Manual appears on a CD-ROM, "HUGA medial", efficient costing and estimating software, simplified product calculations and supports a way of thinking which involves the customers. In 2003, the new website and modified HUGA logo are launched. Under the motto "history -present - future", HUGA is ideally eqipped for future developments: Quality made in Germany - Made by HUGA.

2000

Start of construction work on HUGA plant IV with 10.000 sqm.

27.05.2000: Mourning of Hubert Gaisendrees. The company founder dies after a long, serious illness, during which he personally supervised the takeover of the management by his sons. The whole of the Gaisendrees family and their 360 employees mourn their loss.

Horst and Dieter Gaisendrees HUGA plant III and IV

HUGA worldwide

Huga improves communications with customers and customer endorsere: The HUGA product & design manual appears on CD-ROM. Following the costing and estimating software HUGA medial, a further, trendsetting IT product for long-term customer loyalty.

2003

HUGA receives the certificate for quality management to DIN EN ISO 9001:2000. The HUGA functional doors range is extended by a 90 minute fire resistant door element. The new HUGA website goes online. Official presentation of the new HUGA logo under the motto: "History - present - future. Only he who can change remains true to himself." HUGA underlines its claim to be a complete, allround provider for the commercial and domestic buildings sector.

2004 First public HUGA appearance with the new CI at the DEUBAU, Essen. The production HUGAfloor was stopped.

2005

Attendance as complete, all-round supplier at the BAU, Munich. Presentation of new, high-quality design door range for housing and an extensive range of functional doors.

The golden year 2006

50 years - HUGA celebrates the company's golden anniversary. Time to look back and to look forward. HUGA will continue to remain true to itself in the future: With quality and reliability for the specialised trade, with progressive products which anticipate customers' needs, with top-grade, durable door elements. Exacting commercial and private clients at home and abroad find the products they are looking for at HUGA - whether in our standard ranges or specially made to their own specifications. On this basis, jobs in Germany will be retained, secured and expanded.

2007

HUGA at the trade fair - BAU Munich 2007 with the innovations

- sliding door system sideways

- designer door interion

- sliding door system alutec

trade fair: Branchentag Holz in Cologne

2008

Classic collection cello 12 SPR

In april 2008 mister Markus Schwinn gets manager of the company

HUGA market a wide range of products. The product assortment was crowed by

- Classic collection

- Country collection

- Concept collection

- Basic

- functional doors

- shop-in-shop systems for the trade

The CD changes - the new look

2009

Trade fair BAU 2009 in Munich

innovations:

- HUGA planar

- Classic collection

Product innovations

Country Collection 1 und 4LA Buche/Kernbuche
Normtür LAMINO Laval-Ahorn

-Country Collection

- HUGA LAMINO

Country Collection 6LA2 Lack Pastellblau

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