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Industry expertise in technical trade

High level of specialization and ongoing dialogue

In the technical trade area, our members have access to the hose technology, fittings, pneumatics, technical rubber goods/profiles, sealing and insulation technology, semi-finished plastic products and drive technology product ranges. There are also workshop materials from the chemical-technical products area: Adhesives and sealants, maintenance products, lubricants and cleaning agents.

E/D/E offers highly specialized distributors the hose and fitting technology group as a basis for cooperation. Due to the high level of specialization in technical trade, further groups for sealing technology and chemical-technical products will follow.

Voices of our members

E/D/E helps us to tap into the enormous market potential, particularly in personal protective equipment and technical trade.

Jürgen Getzlaff, Managing Director,
Kahmann & Ellerbrock GmbH & Co. KG
E/D/E Managing Director since 1995

Achieving more together

Specialist group and marketing concept

The Fachkreis Technischer Handel is an association of independent specialist dealers throughout Germany. Founded in 1995, the main objective was initially joint procurement marketing and the creation of a specialist catalog for industrial supplies with high-quality brand ranges. Today, around 30 technical distributors with a total of over 60 locations are members of the specialist group.

New technologies and innovative materials are changing the market. The product plays an important role in technical trade.
It must work, be easy to use and economical.
Nevertheless, the overall package determines whether a task can be solved quickly and easily and whether the user is satisfied in the long term.
With our TECHNIK kommt an marketing concept, we offer you the opportunity to take advantage of this for your business. We want you to benefit from the latest technologies and simplify your day-to-day work.

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More efficiency in the sector

Central services
Handelsmarken

The high quality level of FORTIS is geared towards use in industry and trade.
The range currently includes over 200 items from the hose and fittings, rubber and industrial supply sectors.
There are also quality gradations for selected products in order to find the economically and technically ideal solution.
All items are available from the eLC at attractive conditions.

Unique sector networking

Events and functions
February 20243M visits E/D/E
The new Senior Vice President of the US technology group 3M, Alejandro Martinez, visited E/D/E together with other guests. Joint future prospects and solutions for the specific challenges of the market were the focus of the personal meeting on site. Wuppertal – At the beginning of February, Dr. Christoph Grote, Managing Director and responsible for the areas of goods and sales, and Marco Spannagel, Head of Supplier, Product Group and Sales Concept Management Personal Protective Equipment…
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December 2023Technical trade meets in Hamburg
Under the motto “Time for change – the path to the future”, the E/D/E technical trade specialist group met in the Hanseatic city in mid-May for its annual conference. In addition to future digital service offerings such as the new sealing technology microsite and the further development of current and future own brands, the main topic of the conference was the current market situation surrounding perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl substances, or PFAS for short. Over 10,000 persistent…
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December 2022Technical trade and occupational safety: Successful premiere of the new event format
E/D/E welcomed well over 300 participants to the Technical Trade and Industrial Safety Sales Forum in Dortmund in November. For the first time, the Wuppertal-based association group organized a joint forum for the two sectors in order to offer visitors the widest possible range of information and innovations.   The venue for the successful premiere was the Dortmund Exhibition Center, not far from the Signal Iduna Park. Market-relevant exhibitors from occupational safety and the various…
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    Marco SpannagelHead of supplier/product group and sales concept management personal protective equipment/technical trade
    +49 202 6096-575marco.spannagel@ede.de

    Einkaufsbüro Deutscher Eisenhändler GmbH

    EDE Platz 1
    42389 Wuppertal

    Head office: +49 202 6096-0
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