Riba company profile - Riba Edelstahl

Riba company profileOctober 1, 1982 to October 1, 200725 years Riba EdelstahlHandelsgesellschaft mbH:A success storyOn October 1, 1982 RibaEdelstahl GmbH basedin Hamburg was foundedby the industrialist Hans-Ulrich Hribar, who is todaythe owner and managingdirector of the company.Initially, activities were restrictedwith three employeesto the regionalmarket in North Germany.Already by the end of the1980s, the company hadgrown to more than tenemployees and continuedto expand. At the beginningof the 1990s thecompany moved intonew, innovative premiseswith a modern computerisedhigh-bay warehouse.Today, Riba EdelstahlGmbH is operatingsuccessfully nationwidewith 25 highly motivatedemployees. This year theRiba Edelstahl team wasextended to include aseparate export department.As a supplier both to thetrade and to industry, RibaEdelstahl is today indispensable.Very early on,at the beginning of the1990s,Riba recognisedthe opportunities that buyingin Asian markets presented.As a result, Ribasucceeded in opening upnew stainless steel marketperspectives for its customers.And so for many yearsnow,Riba has been sourcingbright bar, profiles,flangesand tubeaccessories from India,as well as Taiwan, andtoday increasingly, in additionto these products,sheet from China. When itcomes to the global sourcingof stainless steel

Riba company profilesemis, these have nowbecome the key markets,Hribar says.Diversity –a pillar of thecompany philosophyA particularly importantaspect of the company’sphilosophy is that its inventoriescover the wholerange of stainless steelsemis, from sheet to fittings.The customer canchoose from more than7,000 dimensions in allstandard grades whichare constantly held instock, and can also access,due to a well developedlogistical conceptencompassing selectedworks’ inventories throughoutEurope, stocks coveringmore than 12,000dimensions in over 30grades. This doesn’tmean that the companyresortsto socalled “sprinters”.On the contrary,thedepth of stocks heldmeans that everythingcan be obtained from asinglesource, “one-stopshopping” as it is called.This has met with a highdegree of acceptance onthepart of customers,Hribar says.Customer satisfaction –an operational goalA comprehensive servicecontributes to customersatisfaction.• Stainless steel sheet• Stainless steel brightbar• Stainless steel bar• Stainless steel tube• Stainless steel accessories• Stainless steel service(grinding and polishingof all products)• Stainless steelprocessing• A wide range ofproducts from onelocation• European-widelogistics• Certified to DIN ENISO 9001:2000Tearplate, pattern rolledsheet and perforatedsheet are held in stock inaddition to hot and coldrolled sheet. Stainlesssteel bright bar is stockedas rounds, squares andflats. Inventories of rolledproducts include angles,special profiles such as T,U, and W sections, aswell as flats and round barin all their diverse forms.Complementing this productprogramme is thewhole range of round tubes,welded (to DIN 500)and seamless.Alongside these products,customers can find thewhole spectrum of tubularsections – square andrectangular. This comprehensivestock programmeis rounded off