Lingen is an energy town. A refinery, power stations and a number of hydrogen projects shape the city, alongside chemicals, mechanical and plant engineering and a university of applied sciences campus that trains people for exactly these industries. Companies here talk less to consumers than to engineers, buyers and industrial partners. Their websites therefore have to be precise above all: technical data, certificates, safety information, career paths. At the same time, IT departments in these sectors expect traceable security standards — a CMS that has not seen an update for years stands out in every audit. That point, where content meets operations, is where we work.
Since the nuclear power station shut down in 2023, Lingen's energy sector has been changing: hydrogen and renewables are moving to the fore, suppliers are repositioning, and new lines of business bring new product areas, websites and recruitment processes. Add the proximity to the Grafschaft Bentheim district and the Netherlands; many firms work with partners on both sides of the border. For the technology this means content must be easy to restructure without a relaunch every time, and German, English or Dutch versions belong in one system rather than in three separate sites.
Shopware 6 comes into play in Lingen mainly where technical products are sold: spare and wear parts, measurement and safety equipment, consumables for industrial customers. Shops like these need net prices, framework terms, order approvals and an ERP link that keeps stock and prices in sync without manual work. As a Shopware Extension Partner we build missing features as maintainable plugins rather than by modifying the core. After launch we keep the shop current under a maintenance contract: patch updates tested on staging, plugin upkeep, security updates, monitoring of logs and interfaces. How quickly we respond to incidents is set in the SLA — in four tiers from 24 to 2 hours.
For company websites with product areas, a careers portal and several languages we use TYPO3 v14 LTS. The system separates permissions cleanly, so HR, sales and communications each maintain their own areas without getting in each other's way. If your site still runs on an older version, we start with an inventory of extensions and custom code and plan the upgrade path from there, with a test environment running alongside the live site. After that the system stays in our care: security patches after every TYPO3 security bulletin, extension updates, PHP version, backups with restore tests. After each review cycle you get a short note on what has been done and what is due — useful when your company goes through security audits.
We reach Lingen from Oldenburg in about an hour and a half. We make that journey for the meetings where being in the same room adds something: kick-off, workshops with specialist departments, sign-offs — each by arrangement. Everything else runs remotely and on record: requirements in the ticket system, interim builds on a staging environment, check-ins by video. Your contacts do not change, and whoever built your system also maintains it. You can reach us Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 16:00 CET, on +49 441 21 21 63 0. Our only office is in Oldenburg, and that is where we look after the Emsland from.