Rheine lies on the Ems in the northern Münsterland, where the Münsterland, the Emsland and the Tecklenburger Land meet. The town has a long textile tradition; today its economy rests on mechanical and plant engineering, food production, logistics and broad-based retail. In transport terms Rheine sits on the A30, the route from the Netherlands via Osnabrück towards Hanover, and at an important railway junction. Many firms therefore work across national borders as a matter of course: with customers in the Netherlands and suppliers across Europe. For their websites and shops, multiple languages are not an extra but standard equipment.
For mid-sized manufacturers in Rheine, the website is first and foremost a sales tool. Design engineers and buyers look there for technical data, versions, data sheets and contacts for their country, often in English or Dutch. Retailers in the town centre and the surrounding area want to reach their customers online as well. Both groups need the same foundation: product data drawn from a leading system instead of spreadsheet copies, clean multilingual handling and a system that is not orphaned after launch. That last point is often underestimated — the website is finished, the agency moves on, and three years later security updates are missing because nobody applied them.
Rheine's manufacturers and wholesalers get B2B shops on Shopware 6 from us, and specialist retailers get shops that sell online. Typical features are customer-specific prices, orders by several buyers per company account, spare-parts catalogues and an ERP link that keeps items, stock and orders in sync. For customers in the Netherlands we set up a separate sales channel with its own language, domain and shipping rules. After go-live we stay on it: patch updates after testing on staging, security patches, plugin upkeep, checks on imports and search index. A maintenance contract with an SLA sets the response time for incidents — 24, 8, 4 or 2 hours.
Company websites with product areas, country pages and a careers portal we build in Rheine on TYPO3 v14 LTS. German, English and Dutch run in one installation, linked and with correct language tags for search engines. When we take over an existing website, we start with an inventory: version, extensions, custom code, hosting. That produces an upgrade path — often from v10, v11 or v12 to a version with free security updates. Ongoing care follows: review of every security bulletin, patches via staging, PHP and database updates, backups with restore tests and a short report after each maintenance cycle.
From Oldenburg to Rheine is about 1 hour 45 minutes by car. The trip is worth it for the meetings that work better in person: kick-off, workshops on product range, product data or site structure, sign-offs — by arrangement at your premises in Rheine. In between we work remotely from Oldenburg, with fixed contacts, documented decisions and a staging environment where you can check every stage yourself. Hosting runs on our own Proxmox servers in Germany, looked after by the team that wrote the code. You can reach us Monday to Thursday, 9:00 to 16:00, and Friday, 9:00 to 13:00 CET, on +49 441 21 21 63 0.