Dear customers,

As the media have surely informed you, there has been considerable rainfall in North Rhine-Westphalia, which has led to enormous disruptions in road and rail traffic. Rail tracks were washed out and over, or covered by masses of earth, control centers and signal boxes were shut down. The city of Hagen declared a state of emergency on 14.07.2021.

As of 14.07.2021, rail traffic in Hagen and the surrounding area must be suspended, which also affects Andernach & Bleck. Deutsche Bahn announced in a video conference that a damage assessment cannot be expected before 21.07.2021. It is not yet possible to predict when the railway routes in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hagen will be available again and when we will be able to receive deliveries again.

Our production is not affected at the moment, and we are ready with man and machine to continue manufacturing for you.

We are in contact with the authorities and carriers and are working at full speed to find solutions to maintain the supply of raw materials or to reroute future deliveries of raw materials via truck traffic. At this point in time, we are unable to make any reliable predictions and will keep you informed at short intervals.

This form of force majeure is beyond our control, and we ask for your understanding. Please be assured that we will do everything in our power to maintain delivery readiness.

Dear business partners,

after a hopeful start to 2020, the global economy was very quickly slowed down by the corona virus, which still dominates everyday life. We hope that you, your families and also your employees have remained healthy and have weathered the crisis well so far.

Despite everything, we have again made some investments this year in order to be able to continue to offer you bright steel at the highest level. Currently we are looking optimistically into 2021, a vaccine is within reach and the economy has accepted the current situation and is just returning to a more active market life.

As in the past years, we will not send any Christmas presents this year. Instead, we will give presents to charitable organisations whose work we appreciate very much and whose commitment makes a big difference:

• The children's hospice service Sternentreppe im Caritas e.V., Hagen
• BSH Betrieb für Sozialeinrichtungen Hagen gem. GmbH Jugendhilfe Selbecke

We wish you and your loved ones good health and pleasant hours with your family.

With best wishes and the hope of welcoming you again soon, we wish you happy holidays and a happy 2021.

This year the loading will end on 17.12.2020 at 12:00 pm.

A notification of the loads for week 51 and the beginning of week 1 must be sent by at the latest by Thursday, 10 December 2020.

From 18 december 2020 until 3 January 2021 inclusive our outgoing goods department will remain closed.

The first day of loading in the new year is Monday, the 04 January 2021 from 8:00 o'clock!

We would like to thank all our customers, suppliers and forwarders for the successful cooperation in 2020 and wish you a merry and reflective Christmas and a happy new year 2021!