Increasing the efficiency of our customers

Continually improving performance

Added value for our customers. This is the yardstick for all our successes. As early as 1889, company founder Carl Berkenhoff, with his "fine wire drawing facility" in Herborn-Merkenbach, Germany, was characterized by a central idea: to offer his customers more than others offer. Over the company's more than 130-year history, this understanding of customer proximity and orientation has grown into an enduring constant.

Today our products and services are represented in over 50 countries. Customers worldwide value bedra as a reliable partner for sustainable solutions in the fields of innovative high-tech precision wires for spark erosion, welding and brazing technology, electronic components, and special applications. 

Facts & Figures bedra Germany

  • 135Years of experience
  • 2Production sites in Germany
  • 346110m2 area
  • 330Employees
  • 50Country representatives
  • 11000Capacity, tons/year
  • 30000000km/year of wire
  • 100Alloys

Facts & Figures bedra Asia

  • 135Years of experience
  • 3Production sites in Asia
  • 228777m2 area
  • 848Employees
  • 50Country representatives
  • 52900Capacity, tons/year
  • 1000Dimensions
  • 412Alloys

From casting to electroplating: success built on in-house concept

intelligent wires. Made by bedra. This is our quality promise. We operate in all the important areas of the world. Our production sites are in Germany and in Vietnam. We are one of the few global manufacturers of precision wires that represents the entire production chain: Casting, rolling, drawing, annealing, and electroplating. Our customers benefit from our depth of in-house production through 100% traceability, consistent high quality, and the highest possible processing reliability.

To put it in a better context: We produce around 30 million kilometers of precision wire in over 100 different alloys at our two sites in Germany. Year after year. With consistent high quality. This wire could wrap around the earth 750 times.

Individualized solutions for industry

We bring innovations to life. Our high-quality, high-tech precision wires demonstrate this ability. Our products show how we bring new ideas to market. Our comprehensive range of premium services turn our products into a coherent and complete package. Our customers in the following industries and sectors place their trust in our individualized solutions:

Industry sector overview

  • Aviation

  • Automotive­electronics

  • Consumer­electronics

  • Information­technology

  • Mechanical­engineering

  • Automotive­production

  • Medical­technology

  • Transportation

  • Factory­construction

  • Your industry sector

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Other topics that are important to us include:

Developing new products and processes

Developing quality and market leadership

Together with our long-standing partners from industry and research, we work passionately on the development of new products and processes. The aim of these innovations is to sustainably improve our balance sheet in terms of efficiency, performance, and quality. In all our activities, we strive to develop our position as a quality and market leader. This is one of the reasons why we rely on the use of high-quality materials. Our wires are made of copper, brass, bronze, aluminum, or nickel silver. Regardless of whether they are coated or plain, they are always optimally matched to the high demands of our customers.

intelligent wires

High expenditure on research and development

With our own foundry, we have a classic unique selling point. That's why we’re able to be so responsive to the wishes of our customers. And it’s also easy for us to produce alloys based on individual customers’ ideas. Or we adapt surfaces and dimensions to our customers’ desired specifications. This is our definition of flexibility. We gear our services to the needs of our customers. Our own research and development department gives us valuable support in this. The considerable effort we invest in this area results in many patented innovations. Because of this our company is associated with the phrase “smart wires.”

Team spirit

Meeting on equal terms

We regard our customers as partners. We pursue their goals with full commitment. In striving for outstanding solutions, we value meetings that take place on equal terms. This enables us to focus even more on common goals. We meet challenges with true team spirit. At the same time, we make our entire company’s know-how available to all our customers. In all of this, we are always loyal and we internalize our clients’ business objectives, taking them on as our own.

Friendly. Honest. Open. Confident.

Committed to our customers’ goals

Smooth communication forms the foundation of a resilient and cooperative relationship with our customers. Informative cooperation geared to individual goals is a basic prerequisite for business success. With customers, suppliers, and employees, we cultivate a spirit of partnership on equal terms. As a company, we have deeply internalized the concept of service. Achieving customers’ goals is our commitment. Friendly. Honest. Open. Confident. That's how we communicate. All in all, this understanding of customer proximity defines what our service orientation should mean in everyday life.

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Berkenhoff GmbH (headquarters)

  • Kinzenbach plant
  • Berkenhoffstrasse 14
  • 35452 Heuchelheim
  • Germany

Berkenhoff GmbH

  • Merkenbach plant
  • Rehmühle 1
  • 35745 Herborn
  • Germany

bedra Vietnam Alloy Material Co., Ltd

  • Lot CN-06, Hoa Phu Industrial Park,
    Mai Dinh Commune,
    Hiep Hoa District, Bac Giang Province,
    Vietnam
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