About Blickle

Blickle company was founded in 1953.  A small family business has grown from a small enterprise to become one of the world’s leading manufacturers of wheels and castors. The Blickle group currently has more than 950 employees worldwide, over 700 of whom are based at the headquarters in Rosenfeld, Germany. Trained specialist advisers at 17 sales subsidiaries in Europe, America and Asia and representative offices in 120 countries ensure proximity to customers and high-quality service.

Blickle is known worldwide for high-quality, long-lasting and maintenance-free castors and wheels that are “Made in Germany”.

Blickle has never lost sight of the traditional values of a family company despite all of its progress.  This philosophy will remain intact with the third generation of management. Since 1953, the main goal has been to develop the best castor or wheel for every application.  They make every effort to achieve this based on good ideas, commitment to innovation and expertise in materials and technology. Blickle combines tradition with a commitment to innovation.  They produce and develop everything from scratch. This gives them complete control over quality and delivery dates. It also allows to react with speed and flexibility to customer and market requirements while using environmentally friendly manufacturing processes.

The customer is top priority. All of the tooling, mechanical engineering and steel processing is done in their house.  Almost 60,000 square metres of floor space  is used to produce over 15 million castors and wheels a year, equivalent to more than 60,000 units per day.  There are integrate a large number of testing and inspection stations into the production lines to maintain the certified, high-quality standards.  Blickle was the first wheel and castor manufacturer certified with ISO 9001 in 1994. In 2012 the quality management system was supplemented by new environmental and safety standards and subsequently Blickle was awarded ISO 14001 certification.  In 2014, Blickle introduced also an energy management system in accordance with DIN EN ISO 50001 with the objective of minimising energy consumption within all areas of our company. 40 metre high fully automated high-rack warehouse has enough space for 43,400 Euro or cage pallets served by rack feeders.

The neighbouring small parts warehouse has space for 54,000 more. This guarantees that materials get to the production facilities efficiently and that products are delivered to the customers quickly and reliably. The cutting-edge logistics centre guarantees top-quality deliveries:  more than 8,000 different products ready to ship within one day, with another 12,000 ready to ship within one or two days across Europe. 60 to 70 metric tons of material leave the logistics centre in Rosenfeld every day.

In general catalogue G16, including 635 pages, is presented over 30,000 standard products provides the perfect solution for almost any situation. The wide range with technical description is preceded of Wheels and castors guide with basic information, description of materials, type of brackets, fittings and brake systems.