Company history
Today's PER-KOR Kereskedőház Kft. has grown from a small business founded in 1982, which initially operated out of a garage. In 1993, it was transformed into a limited partnership (Bt.), and since 1996, the company has operated as a limited liability company (Kft.).
The family business initially focused on manufacturing, and later expanded into both manufacturing and trade.
In 1993, with broader family support, we purchased a 3,014 m² site in Győr's traditional industrial area. After completing renovations and construction work, the predecessor company moved from the workshop next to the family home into the new premises on February 20, 1994. Experiencing this was an incredible milestone and a great success.
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In 1996, PER-KOR Kft. was established as the legal successor of PER-KOR Bt.
This change not only affected the company’s legal structure but, a few years later, also led to a shift in its business profile in response to market conditions: manufacturing was discontinued, and the focus moved to trading along with related services, such as warehousing, inventory management, and sawing.
On February 17, 1998, we purchased a new, much larger site, which provided an opportunity for the company’s further development.
As the demand for trade and inventory management grew, we began large-scale warehouse construction, and by 2001 we already had two new warehouse halls.
In the spring of 2002, we began the construction of a new office building. The work lasted for nearly a year, and on November 30, 2002, we relocated to the new site.
After that, the construction of the third warehouse began, along with the development of the internal road network and the building of a second exit gate to ensure easier service access. This construction process lasted for approximately six years.
The total warehouse area reached 3,500 m².
In 2003, we won a corporate management system development grant provided by the Hungarian Economic Development Center, under the identifier SZVP-2003-2-03-11-152.
In 2006, with grant support provided by the Hungarian Development Center, we purchased material handling equipment and forklifts.
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In 2009, we introduced a new activity: with a state-of-the-art laser sheet cutting machine, we began our sheet metal processing operations.
Shortly after installing the laser cutting machine, in response to our customers' needs, we also acquired a CNC bending machine.
In the spring of 2012, we expanded our warehouse buildings with a new wing.
The new 700 m² hall primarily serves as a machine hall and warehouse to support our services.
At the end of 2013, we expanded our machinery fleet with a sheet metal punching machine.
At the beginning of 2014, we expanded our range of services with a new activity. We purchased a new, high-performance leveling machine, which allows us to improve the flatness of sheets and sheet metal components.
To serve our customers more efficiently, we expanded our machinery fleet with a new side-loader forklift and an 8-ton overhead crane.
In 2016, we purchased two new front-loader forklifts and a new automatic band saw to increase our cutting capacity.
By 2017, one of our long material warehouses had become too cramped, so in 2018 we replaced the shelves with taller and wider racks.
This increased the warehouse capacity in that hall by more than 50%.
To ensure proper handling of the new racks and to modernize our machinery fleet, we put into operation five new, state-of-the-art four-way forklifts.
In 2018, we conducted a profile streamlining process and discontinued a significant part of our sheet metal processing activities. We sold our punching, laser cutting, and bending machines, while keeping the sheet leveling machine.
The streamlining not only freed up financial resources but also intellectual capital, allowing us to intensively develop our core activities—warehousing and trading—in the following years.
Our constant goal has been to provide flexible and fast service to our customers. To achieve this, we increased our warehouse stock. Recently, we outgrew our second long-material warehouse as well. The 4-meter-high racks installed 20 years ago were replaced in 2021 with new racks, in some places 6 meters high, and our old diesel forklifts were replaced by modern electric machines.
Thanks to this transformation, the capacity of this warehouse increased by more than 50%. We can store a larger inventory, ensuring even more flexible service for our customers.
Our site’s energy consumption has decreased significantly, thanks to the higher efficiency of electric machines compared to diesel-powered ones.
In 2021, we purchased a 6-chamber waste baler, which allows us to compress selectively collected waste into bales, making it easy to transport to recycling facilities.
In 2022, we installed new single-arm racks in our smaller sheet metal warehouse.
In 2022, we replaced the trapezoidal sheet roof of Warehouse 2 with 20 cm thick sandwich panels to improve thermal insulation. In 2023, we installed a solar power plant with 50 kVA AC-side capacity on the new roof. The energy produced by the solar plant in one year covers the current annual electricity consumption of the site.
In the same year, we replaced gas heating in most heated rooms with heat pump-based cooling and heating air conditioners, reducing gas consumption to a fraction and simultaneously improving energy efficiency.
In 2024, we also replaced the conventional racks in the sheet storage warehouse with cantilever racks and acquired three four-way electric forklifts to replace the diesel forklifts. Thanks to the new racks, the storage capacity increased significantly.
In 2025, we also replaced the trapezoidal sheet roofs of our two long-material warehouses with insulated sandwich panels. Under the well-insulated roofs, the warehouses heat up less in summer, improving working conditions. New skylights were also installed in the roof structures, allowing significantly more natural light into the warehouses.
Also in 2025, we replaced our last diesel side-loader forklift with an electric one.
