50 Jahre HUBER Schachtabdeckungen aus Edelstahl

How it all began...

In the 1950s and 1960s, manhole covers in "painted steel" and "galvanised steel" were proven products of the HUBER company and the covers were mainly manufactured for water pipeline construction.

At the beginning of the 1970s, the brothers Hans and Karl-Josef Huber, the company owners at the time, recognised the desire and need of many customers for a low-maintenance manhole cover that did not require maintenance work such as regular painting of the surface. The idea of using stainless steel for this purpose was born and was implemented on a trial basis.

At that time, stainless steel was very expensive and difficult to obtain, and delivery times were extremely long. The first covers were always produced according to the customer's wishes and specifications, using the experience gained over many years in the production of steel covers. Water suppliers from the Nuremberg area and large Bavarian long-distance water associations were the first customers for HUBER stainless steel manhole covers. Most of these covers are still in use today and, after 50 years, impressively demonstrate the long service life of the HUBER manhole cover - a role model in terms of sustainability!

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Two manhole covers

Since then, the use of stainless steel for manhole covers has become more and more widespread and, thanks to HUBER's pioneering work, has established itself in the market. In 1990, HUBER completely stopped the production of steel manhole covers and steel products and dedicated itself 100% to stainless steel.

HUBER stainless steel manhole covers have become the norm

Today, tenders requiring a material other than stainless steel for manhole covers are the big exception, i.e. in the last 50 years the situation has changed in return.

From these early beginnings, a wide range of different HUBER manhole cover designs have developed over the last five decades, always in close contact and cooperation with our customers. Especially the feedback from our customers we receive in discussions at trade fairs, through telephone calls or during field service visits, was then and still is extremely valuable.

The practical application and regular use of the covers by our customers provide important approaches to continuously improve our products and thus maintain the HUBER quality they have come to expect. Feedback from the market, e.g. requesting a back-friendly opening of the heavy covers, prompted us to equip the HUBER Manhole Covers with gas springs, which we have now been doing for more than 30 years as a matter of principle.

The complete range of HUBER Manhole Covers is "Made in Germany" or even more correctly "Made in Berching". Many of our customers have already taken the opportunity to visit our production facility. Thanks to modern and optimised production processes as well as motivated employees, we are able to withstand the price pressure of cheap foreign products.

The HUBER anniversary cover

HUBER stainless steel covers have now been on the market for 50 years and for us this is a welcome occasion to take a look at all the customer requests from home and abroad that we have collected over the years.

We set ourselves the goal of fulfilling (almost) all customer wishes in an "anniversary cover", and the result is the innovative HUBER Manhole Cover SD50 SAP (Safe Access Pro).

This HUBER cover made of stainless steel chequer plate has an integrated fall protection which can be loaded up to 200 kg, concealed ventilation openings, seal on the underside of the cover and a recessed lock to name the most important features.

50 arguments for the HUBER Manhole Cover SD50 SAP (Safe Access Pro)

Below are the 50 most important customer requests from A-Z:

  1. Lift-off protection through inner lugs
  2. Operating key included
  3. Load-bearing up to 500 kg or 5000 kg
  4. Ventilation possible
  5. Digital locking systems
  6. Stainless steel
  7. Burglar-resistant according to DIN 1627
  8. Easy to use
  9. Compliance with ISO 9001
  10. Spare parts available for many years
  11. Colour design possible
  12. Odour-tight
  13. Consistently high quality
  14. Replaceable rubber seal
  15. Hygienic
  16. Individualisierbar
  17. Insektensicher
  18. Integrierte Absturzsicherung
  19. Investitionssicher
  20. Langlebig
  21. Mehrere Werkstoffe (V2A, V4A)
  22. Mittelfristig die günstigste Lösung
  23. Nachhaltigkeit
  24. Normgerecht nach DIN 1239
  25. Optisch ansprechend
  26. Pollenfilter oder Geruchsfilter
  27. Preisgünstig durch Serienfertigung
  28. Qualitätskontrolle
  29. Rostfrei
  30. Rückenschonend durch Gasdruckfeder
  31. Rückstausicher
  32. Schnelle Lieferung aus Lagervorrat
  33. Selbsteinfallende Aufhaltevorrichtung
  34. Sicherheitssteckschloss nachrüstbar
  35. Sondergrößen und -ausführungen
  36. Stabil
  37. Tagwasserdicht
  38. Überflutungssicher
  39. Überwachung durch Magnetkontakt
  40. Unterschiedliche Rahmenvarianten
  41. Verdeckte Scharniere
  42. Verschiedene Verschlusssysteme
  43. Verschleißarme Dichtung
  44. Verschlussabdeckung aus Messing
  45. Vollbad Beizung
  46. Vollständig in Deutschland hergestellt
  47. Vorschriften- und Regelkonform (DGUV)
  48. Wärmedämmung möglich
  49. Wartungsfrei
  50. Werkstoff vollständig recycelbar

16. Insect-proof

17. Integrated fall protection

18. Security of investment

19. Long life

34 Special sizes and designs

35. Stable

36. Surface-watertight

37. Floodproof

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