COMPANY PROFILE and BUSINESS CULTURE

 

 

Date of foundation:

October 1st 1993 at Elmshorn

 

(near Hamburg / Germany)

 

 

Founder:

Klaus H. Harz

 

Dieter Landsberger

 

 

Year of 1996:

Felix Bommer/Dipl.Ing.agr of Univ. of Goettingen/Germany joined as shareholder

 

 

Year of 2000:

Moving into acquired office-building at

 

Rostock-Koppel 17

 

Klein Offenseth-Sparrieshoop

 

(suburb of Elmshorn)

 

 

Business purpose:

Export-Distributor for Fatty Chemicals and Cosmetic Raw Materials for the HENKEL-GROUP.

 

Export, Import of Raw Materials for Animal Feed.

 

 

Year of 1998:

Klaus Muendlein joined Inter-Harz as a director of the newly created division:

 

Export, Import and Cross-Trade of Chemicals.

 

 

Year of 2000:

Start of Activity „Service for Industries“ by „Supply of Raw Materials for Production of Cosmetics to Daughter Companies andLicensees of HENKEL-GROUP“

 

 

Year of 2000:

COGNIS (Deutschland) GmbH was created by HENKEL and sold out to an American Investors group.

 

 

 

Start for Inter-Harz to work for COGNIS as export-distributor

 

 

 

Fields of Activities:

 

Raw materials for cosmetics, mainly fat- and oil-based

 

Fatty Alcohols

 

Pharma-Line Products

 

Synlubes (Min. Oil Industry)

 

Coating and Inks (since 2007)

 

 

Year of 2004

Start of special Division

 

„Marketing in Latin America“

 

 

Year of 2006

Creation of

 

Cognis Oleo GmbH, Shareholder

 

Cognis and Golden Hope, Malaysia.

 

Activities:

 

Fatty Acids, individual, distilled,

 

cuts

 

Plastics Technology

 

Export Distributor: Inter-Harz GmbH

 

 

Year of 2007

Taking over of the business of

 

H.W.JORDAN GmbH, Wulfsen/Germany.

 

Export to countries of equatorial Africa.

 

 

Year of 1999:

Certified ISO 9001:2000

 

 

Year of 2004:

Certified GMP B 2

 

 

After the HENKEL CONCERN had concentrated his activities in the field of FATTY CHEMICALS and RAW MATERIALS FOR THE COSMETIC INDUSTRY in the newly founded COGNIS GERMANY, the contractual situation as export distributor went over from HENKEL to COGNIS and in 2006 also to COGNIS OLEO.

 

INTER-HARZ GMBH is a SERVICE COMPANY. We understand ourselves as a LINK between MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES.

 

This activity is   N O T GEOGRAPHICALLY LIMITED. Practically we have daily contacts with countries of all 5 continents, for exporting, importing, cross-trading.

 

The continuous growth and steadily increasing production and

service-line is based on our team of SERVICE DEVOTED and HIGHLY MOTIVATED people and on decades of experience of the management staff in international trade of products. (Marketing, Sales, Transport, Shipment, Warehousing, Documentation, Money-Transfer, etc.)

 

Our goal is to promote, to grow by serving the manufacturing industry.

 

Therefore we are open to all inquiries, to all proposals for co-operation, etc. We do not hesitate to deal with new products, new markets, to respond to new challenges, to find new solutions, to develop new marketing strategies or identify new customers.

 

Another goal is to provide SUPER-SERVICE and to turn BUSINESS-PARTNERS into future BUSINESS-FRIENDS.

 

 

We are Members of

German Chamber of Industry and Commerce

Indo-German Chamber of Commerce in India

Association of Exporters of the City of Hamburg

Actual shareholders are:
 

  KLAUS H. HARZ

80 %

 

 

  WOLF-DIETER LANDSBERGER

10 %

 

 

  FELIX BOMMER

10 %

 

 

All Shareholders are working in Inter-Harz GmbH as Manager of a Division.