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Bremen businessman Joachim Armerding founded the\u00a0HANSA\u2011FLEX\u00a0company 60 years ago in the garage of his house near Bremen. His business concept was timely, his motto as simple as it was ingenious: Fulfil the wishes of your customers more rapidly, more flexibly and more fully than all your competitors and never forget the human side and enjoyment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8393,"parent":9483,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9807","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"1_hero","big_image":8382,"headline":"60 years of HANSA-FLEX","description":"Bremen businessman Joachim Armerding founded the\u00a0HANSA\u2011FLEX\u00a0company 60 years ago in the garage of his house near Bremen. 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