Aurich is home to a major manufacturer of wind turbines, and a dense network of suppliers, installation and service firms has grown up around it. Their customers are rarely in East Frisia and often not even in Germany. A website there has to prove technical competence: services, certifications, references and contacts, in German and English, maintained by people whose real job is running projects. And anyone supplying spare parts, tools or safety equipment to service crews increasingly handles orders through a B2B shop rather than by email and phone.
Older than wind energy is Aurich's role as an administrative town: the counts and princes of East Frisia once resided here, later the regional government, and today Aurich is the seat of the district. Authorities, cultural and educational institutions, associations and hospitals shape the townscape and the job market. Their websites have their own demands: many editors with different permissions, approval before publication, forms that citizens actually complete, and accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA — for public bodies not an optional extra but an obligation. Alongside them, retail and trades live on the spending power of the district town.
For authorities, associations and institutions in Aurich, TYPO3 is usually the right foundation. On sites like these we often find v10, v11 or v12 — versions without free security updates. We bring them up to TYPO3 v14 LTS, available since April 2026: first an inventory of extensions, then an upgrade path in stages, a test environment running alongside the live site and the cut-over only after your sign-off. New portals we build directly on v14, with a permissions concept and accessible templates. Under a maintenance contract we check every TYPO3 security bulletin on the day it is published and apply patches after testing on staging.
Suppliers to the wind industry get B2B shops on Shopware 6 from us: customer-specific prices from the ERP, framework agreements, several buyers per company account and approvals before an order goes out. If your customers order through their own procurement systems, we connect the catalogue via OCI or punch-out. Retailers in Aurich's town centre get a leaner B2C shop connected to their merchandise management. In both cases the project does not end at go-live: we apply updates of the 6.7 line after testing, keep plugins compatible and monitor the message queue and search index — with a response time you set in the SLA between 24 and 2 hours.
From Oldenburg to Aurich is around an hour. For the kick-off, workshops with your editorial or sales team and sign-off we come to you by arrangement, and for public bodies we are happy to train editors on site as well. Development and ongoing maintenance we handle remotely; you can follow progress on a staging environment. Our phone line, +49 441 21 21 63 0, is staffed Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 16:00 CET. Without an SLA we handle requests in order of receipt within 48 hours during those hours; if you need a faster answer, you agree a tier.