From a small workshop in Selb to an internationally successful mechanical engineering group: NETZSCH is ringing in its 150th anniversary yr – and over four,a hundred workers worldwide are becoming a member of within the celebration.
The starting is a replica of the identical start-up sample we regularly see right now: Two brothers set up their own enterprise in 1873 and, in a small workshop in Selb, developed a quality product that received over the fire departments of the region. The fireplace extinguishers from the “Gebrüder Netzsch Maschinenfabrik” had been a big seller. From there, Thomas Netzsch, a locksmith, and his youthful brother Christian Netzsch, an engineer, went on to develop machines for ceramic production that had been additionally renowned for their high quality. With the increase of the porcelain trade at the moment in the Fichtelgebirge, the corporate finally concentrated completely on the production of the ceramics business tools.
Thus, a hundred and fifty years in the past, the success story of a family-owned firm started, which today spans the globe with its three enterprise units “Pumps & Systems”, “Grinding & Dispersing” and “Analyzing & Testing” – with products such as the Mohno pump, moist mill and rheometer, with around 210 production and gross sales areas and greater than 4,100 employees. Today, the NETZSCH Group is as quickly as once more headed by two brothers from Selb: Moritz and Paul Netzsch. As the fifth era of the Netzsch household of householders, they run the corporate along with CFO Jens Niessner.
“Our historical past provides answers”
What started in 1873 in a workshop in Selb has, of course, lengthy outgrown its infancy. But NETZSCH desires to remain true to its family values and roots. In this anniversary 12 months, Moritz Netzsch emphasizes: “It is important to me that we now have a stable, continued improvement of what we do today. My want is that, with all of the reflection, with all the necessary rethinking and new thinking, we grow organically, and bring the company into the subsequent technology stronger than ever.”
This is among the explanation why NETZSCH had its corporate historical past researched from a big selection of perspectives for its a hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Looking into the previous not only substantiates values and successes, it additionally reveals the match of a price proposition. “Our history supplies solutions as to why we now have existed for thus lengthy. Our slogan ‘Proven Excellence’ isn’t any empty phrase. We can prove our excellence from our historical past. One can observe how we actively shaped complete industries over many years. Along with this, NETZSCH has all the time been capable of adapt to radical modifications within the corporate world or within the market. Sometimes this also meant that we needed to drastically reposition ourselves,” says Paul Netzsch. After the Second World War, for instance, potato washing machines had been designed, and in the course of the heyday of the porcelain trade, NETZSCH built complete factories for the ceramic business. All of these developments finally led to NETZSCH positioning itself very successfully in the market with its “Analyzing & Testing”, “Grinding & Dispersing” and “Pumps & Systems” business units. “We wish to transfer this historically grown adaptability into the longer term as properly,” explains Moritz Netzsch.
Success over generations
Looking again additionally has a private component. Especially when essential milestones within the company’s history may be attributed to Erich Netzsch (1903-1990) and Thomas Netzsch (1946-2010). Both managing directors have shaped the company in their own distinctive method and introduced it forward with groundbreaking decisions. The discovery and additional improvement of the Mohno pump beneath Erich Netzsch and the intensive internationalization underneath Thomas Netzsch are simply two examples. The company still benefits from these formative decisions at present. After all, success at NETZSCH all the time has a cross-generational part. The similar applies to an understanding of values and high quality that, for generations, has not only targeted on the company’s personal merchandise and customers, but also on its staff. Thus, 25- and even 40-year anniversaries are nothing unusual at NETZSCH – even internationally. The average size of service of the worldwide workforce at NETZSCH is high at 10.6 years. At the German places, staff even stay employed for a median of thirteen years.
CFO Jens Niessner is convinced: “You can feel our NETZSCH spirit at each location. Our values, the economic success, the perspective for the staff – this pairing sparks an aura that makes us competitive even in locations the place different firms with a high worldwide profile are situated.” The result: Niessner repeatedly experiences deja vu throughout worker interviews everywhere in the world: “I typically meet employees, whether or not it’s in China, Brazil or Waldkraiburg, and notice in dialog: the son or daughter now also works for us. Our spirit isn’t only inherited by the proprietor household, but in addition by our workforce.
“We drive industrial progress”
Meanwhile, the vision for the longer term is ready: in 2022, the company has launched a new strategy for the three business models. “We drive industrial progress to maintain a profitable eco-system via generations” – the model new mission for the longer term reveals a strengthened will to form issues at NETZSCH. Looking back provides braveness, however above all it makes us want to sit up for the future. And this future should be characterised by innovation more than ever. Since 2019, for example, employees have been concerned in the improvement of futuristic concepts in NETZSCH’s personal innovation incubator NEDGEX and are always on the lookout for potential new business areas. In 2021, NEDGEX was honored by Infront Consulting and the business journal Capital as top-of-the-line Digital Innovations Labs in Germany with the Digital Lab Award.
In its anniversary 12 months, NETZSCH is planning in depth celebrations – together with at all major international areas. The company will share the various facets of its history with its workforce, customers and companions, in addition to fascinated members of the basic public, in a magazine and an anniversary blog.
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For extra information contact:
Kristin Nugent
McNeil, Gray & Rice Inc.
(617) 367-0100, ext.148
Kristin.nugent@mgr1.com
About NETZSCH Pumps & Systems
NETZSCH Pumps & Systems has served markets worldwide for more than 60 years, providing custom-made, refined solutions for applications in each industry type. Experts in complex fluid handling, NETZSCH supplies NEMO® progressing cavity pumps, TORNADO® rotary lobe pumps, and NOTOS® screw pumps, PERIPRO™ peristaltic pumps in addition to N.Mac® twin shaft grinders, macerators, barrel emptying units, metering know-how and accessories. With เครื่องมือที่ใช้วัดความดันเลือด of greater than 2,200, NETZSCH Pumps & Systems is the biggest business unit in the NETZSCH Group, with annual gross sales of more than 380 million Euros.
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