From a small workshop in Selb to an internationally successful mechanical engineering group: NETZSCH is ringing in its 150th anniversary year – and over 4,one hundred workers worldwide are becoming a member of in the celebration.
The beginning is a duplicate of the same start-up pattern we regularly see right now: Two brothers arrange their own enterprise in 1873 and, in a small workshop in Selb, developed a excessive quality product that received over the fire departments of the region. The fire extinguishers from the “Gebrüder Netzsch Maschinenfabrik” had been a giant seller. From there, Thomas Netzsch, a locksmith, and his younger brother Christian Netzsch, an engineer, went on to develop machines for ceramic manufacturing that have been additionally renowned for his or her high quality. With the increase of the porcelain trade at the moment in the Fichtelgebirge, the company lastly concentrated entirely on the manufacturing of the ceramics industry gear.
Thus, 150 years in the past, the success story of a family-owned firm started, which at present spans the globe with its three enterprise models “Pumps & Systems”, “Grinding & Dispersing” and “Analyzing & Testing” – with products such as the Mohno pump, wet mill and rheometer, with round 210 manufacturing and sales locations and more than 4,100 workers. Today, the NETZSCH Group is as quickly as once more headed by two brothers from Selb: Moritz and Paul Netzsch. As the fifth technology of the Netzsch family of householders, they run the company together with CFO Jens Niessner.
“Our history offers 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 year, Moritz Netzsch emphasizes: “It is essential to me that we now have a steady, continued growth of what we do at present. My want is that, with all of the reflection, with all the necessary rethinking and new pondering, we grow organically, and convey the company into the subsequent technology stronger than ever.”
This is one of the reasons why NETZSCH had its corporate history researched from a wide range of perspectives for its 150th anniversary. Looking into the past not only substantiates values and successes, it also reveals the fit of a price proposition. “Our historical past offers answers as to why we now have existed for so lengthy. Our slogan ‘Proven Excellence’ is not any empty phrase. We can prove our excellence from our historical past. One can observe how we actively shaped whole industries over a few years. Along with this, NETZSCH has always been capable of adapt to radical changes within the corporate world or in the market. Sometimes this also meant that we had to drastically reposition ourselves,” says Paul Netzsch. After the Second World War, for example, potato washing machines were designed, and in the course of the heyday of the porcelain industry, NETZSCH constructed complete factories for the ceramic industry. All of these developments in the end led to NETZSCH positioning itself very efficiently available in the market with its “Analyzing & Testing”, “Grinding & Dispersing” and “Pumps & Systems” enterprise models. “We wish to switch this traditionally grown adaptability into the long run as well,” explains Moritz Netzsch.
Success over generations
Looking back additionally has a private element. Especially when essential milestones in the company’s historical past could be attributed to Erich Netzsch (1903-1990) and Thomas Netzsch (1946-2010). Both managing administrators have shaped the company in their own distinctive means and introduced it forward with groundbreaking choices. The discovery and further development of the Mohno pump beneath Erich Netzsch and the intensive internationalization underneath Thomas Netzsch are just two examples. The company nonetheless advantages from these formative choices at present. After all, success at NETZSCH always has a cross-generational component. The identical applies to an understanding of values and quality that, for generations, has not only targeted on the company’s personal products and clients, but additionally on its employees. Thus, 25- and even 40-year anniversaries are nothing uncommon at NETZSCH – even internationally. Jackpot of service of the worldwide workforce at NETZSCH is high at 10.6 years. At the German places, workers even remain employed for a mean of 13 years.
CFO Jens Niessner is satisfied: “You can really feel our NETZSCH spirit at every location. Our values, the economic success, the perspective for the employees – this pairing sparks an aura that makes us competitive even in locations where different corporations with a excessive worldwide profile are located.” The end result: Niessner repeatedly experiences deja vu during employee interviews everywhere in the world: “I often meet staff, whether or not it’s in China, Brazil or Waldkraiburg, and notice in dialog: the son or daughter now additionally works for us. Our spirit just isn’t solely inherited by the owner family, but additionally by our workforce.
“We drive industrial progress”
Meanwhile, the vision for the longer term is ready: in 2022, the corporate has launched a new technique for the three business models. “We drive industrial progress to sustain a profitable eco-system via generations” – the model new mission for the future reveals a strengthened will to shape things at NETZSCH. Looking again provides braveness, however above all it makes us want to sit up for the long run. And this future must be characterized by innovation greater than ever. Since 2019, for instance, workers have been involved within the growth of futuristic concepts in NETZSCH’s own innovation incubator NEDGEX and are always looking out for potential new enterprise areas. In 2021, NEDGEX was honored by Infront Consulting and the enterprise magazine Capital as probably the greatest Digital Innovations Labs in Germany with the Digital Lab Award.
In its anniversary yr, NETZSCH is planning extensive celebrations – including at all major worldwide areas. The firm will share the varied facets of its history with its workforce, prospects and partners, in addition to interested members of the common public, in a magazine and an anniversary weblog.
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For extra info 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, offering personalized, subtle options for purposes in every industry type. Experts in complicated fluid handling, NETZSCH provides 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 models, metering technology and accessories. With a workforce of more than 2,200, NETZSCH Pumps & Systems is the largest enterprise unit in the NETZSCH Group, with annual gross sales of greater than 380 million Euros.
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