VOCO, the dental company from Cuxhaven, supplies its products to over 100 countries. Dentists around the world use the high-grade dental materials with the "Made in Germany" seal of quality – and this tendency is increasing. However, this constant company growth demands large production resources. With the construction of the new production building, VOCO has now generated the space required.
The capacity in the production rooms was gradually becoming scarce: whilst it has already been expanded several times, VOCO's constant growth over the last few years and the corresponding order book had brought the manufacturing department to its capacity limits. VOCO's management team reacted with the new building project for an additional two-storey production building.
The ground was broken a year ago, and in the summer of 2016 the topping-out ceremony was held in the presence of a large number of guests. Now, after around twelve months of construction work, the new production building has been completed on schedule. VOCO's management team, Ines Plaumann-Sauerbier, Manfred Thomas Plaumann and Olaf Sauerbier, is pleased with how smoothly the building work went. The companies Lüdke Stahlbeton-, Hoch- und Tiefbau (Cuxhaven) and D. Schröder (Bremervörde) headed the work as the general contractor in consortium.
With the completion of the production unit extension, VOCO has reached another important milestone. "The modern new production building provides 9,000 square metres of additional effective floor area which is significant for our ongoing positive development and the expansion of the VOCO brand in the global dental sector", the management team explains.
VOCO began developing and producing dental materials in Cuxhaven in the early 80s. The company now employs over 400 people in Germany – 350 of those in Cuxhaven – and 390 country-specific sales representatives outside Germany. In 1992, the new company building was built in the Anton-Flettner-Strasse. The construction of the new production building is now the fourth expansion, following building projects in 1997, 2005 and 2013.
The costs for the production expansion stand at around 10 million euros. For VOCO's management team, "it is a worthwhile investment which paves the way for further successful development of our company and, of course, for the creation of further jobs".