Company

We are an independent business unit of a global medium-sized corporate group owned by the family and manufacture goods with high quality standards.

About Wakol

Our demand

High demand associates you with a powerful technological partner

Sustainable economic success requires one thing above all: making a difference. Read more

Be part of a systematic innovation process

More than 15 % of our employees are highly qualified people in development and application technology. Read more

Quality management certificate according to ISO 9001:2015

Constant quality for your processes

Product functionality is the foundation. Read more

Join us in assuming responsibility for our environment

Quality of the environment is part of product quality. Read more

WAKOL GROUP

HISTORY

2024

Succession in the top management at Wakol

Dr Martin Schäfer and Martin Eichel take over the management of the Wakol Group

2023

Expansion of the infrastructure

2020

Building up production capacities for 1K-MS adhesives

2019

Wakol and Ardex Australia become controlling shareholders in Nexus Adhesives, Melbourne

2018

Wakol becomes majority shareholder in Loba GmbH & Co. KG, Ditzingen

2015

Ardex Group becomes controlling shareholder in Wakol

2013

Building up production capacities for 1-K-PU adhesives

1999

Inauguration of the new laboratory and training building

1934

Founding of the Walter Kolodziej chemical factory in Pirmasens. Product range: rubber cements, leather hardeners and impregnating agents, balancing compounds and cleaning agents for the shoe industry

OUR PARTNERS

ISP Interessengemeinschaft Schweizer Parkettmarkt

SUPPLIERS

The special safety requirements when employing external companies on the premises of Wakol are described in the Wakol external company guideline. The aim is to avoid accidents with personal injury, material damage to operating equipment, as well as environmental damage. General codes of conduct for working on the factory premises are also listed.

Fremdfirmenrichtlinie und Baustellenordnung

The Wakol Group is familiar with the awareness of its Corporate Social Responsibility. In addition to complying with all applicable laws and regulations, the Wakol Group is committed to respect and promote social and ethical standards as well as protecting the environment. All suppliers and sub-suppliers are expected to follow these principles as well.

Hence, Wakol has developed a Code of Conduct for Suppliers that embraces fundamental social, ethical and ecological standards.

Code of Conduct for Suppliers

Das Lieferkettenschutzgesetz verpflichtet deutsche Unternehmen ab einer bestimmten Größe zur Einhaltung von Menschenrechts- und Umweltstandards entlang ihrer globalen Lieferketten. Es setzt auf Transparenz, Risikomanagement und die Integration von Sorgfaltspflichten. Unternehmen müssen Risiken für Menschenrechtsverletzungen und Umweltauswirkungen analysieren, Gegenmaßnahmen ergreifen und dies in regelmäßigen Berichten dokumentieren. Das Gesetz sieht außerdem vor, dass Unternehmen Beschwerdemechanismen und Meldewege einrichten, um möglichen Verstößen entgegenzuwirken. Mehr lesen

Sustainability

For Wakol the sustainable approach is part of the vision. The sustainability strategy is anchored in the quality and energy policy. This includes the comprehensive intentions and objectives of the company with regard to quality and energy, as a binding framework for the management systems:

1. Economy: Customer satisfaction is the measure of quality! Suppliers are our partners!

2. Employees & company: All employees are bound to ensure quality! Wakol fosters the abilities, commitment and quality, environmental, energy and safety awareness of staff. The satisfaction of the requirements of the interested parties is an important element.

3. Products: Wakol installation materials must be high-quality products! This means that Wakol products must be sustainable and satisfy the highest requirements in processor and consumer protection.

4. Securing the company's existence: We only remain good through continuous improvements. Securing the company's existence over the long term is not possible without financial corporate success.

5. Environment and resources: Quality of the environment is part of product quality! Systematic improvement of quality, energy efficiency as well as all environmental and safety standards is therefore the aim of the efforts. In addition to the implementation of environmental and climate protection measures, this also includes compliance with the highest occupational health and safety requirements and HACCP principles.

Energy management system according to ISO 50001

Your safety

The implementation of expertise and technology in processes with greater efficiency and added value requires intensive dialogue and resolve. Our employees will ensure your success. Selected professional qualification and intensive internal training in turn ensure their expertise. Possibilities for development, self-reliance and attractive career options are the source of their exceptional motivation.

Success knows no national boundaries. An internationally oriented organisational structure with its own subsidiaries and holdings and with a continually growing network of selected co-operating partners who share our philosophy and to whom we intensively convey our expertise – all this forms the framework. Even today you can rely on our unlimited support on location, in the growth regions of your industry – in Europe and beyond.

Thanks to our broad technological expertise, you need to rely on just one partner. And without compromises we can advise you on the best application, while also creating a decisive difference from the interplay of different technologies in our product systems. For water-based, solvent-based and reactive systems, or for powdery, cement-based or anhydrite systems, or even for hot-melts.

You'll find our product lines and organisational structures strictly focussed on your industry:

parquet and floor layers on the side of the laying materials; on the side of the industrial systems the upholstered furniture and mattress industry, the metal packaging industry, the shoe industry, the construction and automotive supplier industry. You'll profit across industries from the resulting synergy effects in the technology, for example in raw materials and in the industry crossing innovation process.