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Continuity and innovation


Sopro Bauchemie GmbH embodies a unique mix of organic growth and home-grown experience with a forward-looking product and brand strategy – a supreme combination that has fashioned the company into one of Europe's leading building chemicals manufacturers. The Sopro brand is synonymous with innovative products and product systems for a wide range of trades that include tiling, screed laying, surface filling, plastering and rendering, waterproofing, stove/fireplace construction, masonry and landscaping.
The company's origins are traceable to the core Wiesbaden plant of German cement manufacturer Dyckerhoff. Even before the Second World War, Dyckerhoff's Special Products Department had manufactured the first building chemicals with cement as binder. 1985 saw the formation of Dyckerhoff Sopro GmbH, which forged ahead with developing a by then much broader product palette embracing tile adhesives, tile grouts, surface fillers, coatings and numerous other construction chemicals.
		The company became part of the Mapei Group, the world's largest construction adhesives manufacturer, in 2002. Since then, it has traded under the name Sopro Bauchemie.

Milestones

2006
		Formation of the Moscow-based OOO "Sopro RUS" (Russia)
		Formation of the Nieuwegein-based Sopro Nederland BV (Netherlands)

2005
		Formation of the Prague-based Sopro CZ s.r.o. (Czech Republic)

2003
		Formation of the Sopro Hungária Kft., based at Budakeszi near Budapest (Hungary)

2002
		Company now trading under name Sopro Bauchemie GmbH as part of international Mapei Group
		Research and development synergies achieved through pooling of expertise
		Strengthening of core activities

2001
		Opening of branch in Thun (Switzerland)
		Expansion of marketing activities in Switzerland

1998
		Concentration of Dyckerhoff Group's entire fine mortar operations in Sopro as lead company
		Acquisition of present-day Sopro Bauchemie GmbH at Asten near Linz (Austria), opening of up-to-date production sites at Feldbach (Province of Styria/Austria)
		Acquisition of Italian company CerCol S.p.A. with administrative and production site at Sassuolo (Italy) and Spanish subsidiary CerCol Iberia S.L. at Onda (Spain)

1997
		Construction of state-of-art dry mortar plant by Sopro Polska at Nowiny near Kielce (Poland)

1994
		Opening of expanded manufacturing facilities, with significant boost to production capacity for special building chemical products
		Formation of Sopro Polska Sp. z o.o. in Warsaw (Poland)

1989
		Completion of modern logistics centre providing several thousand square metres of warehousing and order assembly space

1985
		Formation of Dyckerhoff Sopro GmbH

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