From a small workshop in Selb to an internationally successful mechanical engineering group: NETZSCH is ringing in its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary year – and over four,100 workers worldwide are joining within the celebration.
The beginning is a copy of the identical start-up pattern we often see at present: Two brothers arrange their own business in 1873 and, in a small workshop in Selb, developed a excessive quality product that gained over the hearth departments of the region. The fireplace extinguishers from the “Gebrüder Netzsch Maschinenfabrik” have been an enormous vendor. 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 also famend for his or her quality. With the growth of the porcelain business at that time in the Fichtelgebirge, the company lastly concentrated totally on the production of the ceramics trade equipment.
Thus, a hundred and fifty years in the past, the success story of a family-owned firm began, which right now spans the globe with its three business items “Pumps & Systems”, “Grinding & Dispersing” and “Analyzing & Testing” – with products such as the Mohno pump, wet mill and rheometer, with round 210 manufacturing and gross sales places and greater than four,100 workers. Today, the NETZSCH Group is once once more headed by two brothers from Selb: Moritz and Paul Netzsch. As the fifth era of the Netzsch household of owners, they run the company together with CFO Jens Niessner.
“Our history supplies answers”
What began in 1873 in a workshop in Selb has, of course, lengthy outgrown its infancy. But NETZSCH desires to remain true to its household values and roots. In this anniversary yr, Moritz Netzsch emphasizes: “It is necessary to me that we’ve a steady, continued development of what we do today. My wish is that, with all of the reflection, with all the required rethinking and new pondering, we develop organically, and produce the corporate into the subsequent generation stronger than ever.”
This is considered one of the explanation why NETZSCH had its company historical past researched from a variety of perspectives for its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Looking into the past not only substantiates values and successes, it additionally reveals the fit of a price proposition. “Our history supplies answers as to why we now have existed for thus lengthy. Our slogan ‘Proven Excellence’ is not any empty phrase. We can show our excellence from our historical past. One can observe how we actively shaped complete industries over many years. Along with this, NETZSCH has at all times been in a place to adapt to radical modifications within the company world or within the marketplace. Sometimes this also meant that we had to drastically reposition ourselves,” says Paul Netzsch. After the Second World War, for instance, potato washing machines were designed, and in the course of the heyday of the porcelain trade, NETZSCH constructed full factories for the ceramic business. All of these developments in the end led to NETZSCH positioning itself very efficiently out there with its “Analyzing & Testing”, “Grinding & Dispersing” and “Pumps & Systems” business models. “We need to switch this traditionally grown adaptability into the longer term as properly,” explains Moritz Netzsch.
Success over generations
Looking back additionally has a private element. Especially when important milestones within the company’s historical past can be attributed to Erich Netzsch (1903-1990) and Thomas Netzsch (1946-2010). Both managing directors have shaped the corporate in their own distinctive way and introduced it forward with groundbreaking selections. The discovery and further development of the Mohno pump beneath Erich Netzsch and the intensive internationalization under Thomas Netzsch are just two examples. The firm still advantages from these formative decisions right now. 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 solely targeted on the company’s own products and clients, but also on its staff. Thus, 25- and even 40-year anniversaries are nothing unusual at NETZSCH – even internationally. The common size of service of the international workforce at NETZSCH is high at 10.6 years. At the German locations, employees even remain employed for a mean of thirteen 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 places the place different corporations with a high international profile are positioned.” The end result: Niessner repeatedly experiences deja vu throughout employee interviews all over the world: “I often meet employees, whether or not it’s in China, Brazil or Waldkraiburg, and realize in dialog: the son or daughter now also works for us. Our spirit is not solely inherited by the owner family, but also by our workforce.
“We drive industrial progress”
Meanwhile, the vision for the long run is set: in 2022, the company has launched a new strategy for the three enterprise models. “We drive industrial progress to maintain a successful eco-system via generations” – the new mission for the future reveals a strengthened will to form issues at NETZSCH. Looking again offers braveness, however above all it makes us wish to look ahead to 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 at all times on the lookout for potential new business 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 year, NETZSCH is planning intensive celebrations – together with at all major worldwide areas. The company will share the various sides of its historical past with its workforce, clients and companions, in addition to interested members of the basic public, in a magazine and an anniversary blog.
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For more info contact:
Kristin Nugent
McNeil, Gray & Rice Inc.
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Kristin.nugent@mgr1.com
About NETZSCH Pumps & Systems
NETZSCH Pumps & Systems has served markets worldwide for greater than 60 years, offering personalized, subtle options for functions in each business type. Experts in advanced fluid handling, NETZSCH provides NEMO® progressing cavity pumps, TORNADO® rotary lobe pumps, and NOTOS® screw pumps, PERIPRO™ peristaltic pumps as well as N.Mac® twin shaft grinders, macerators, barrel emptying units, metering technology and accessories. With a workforce of more than 2,200, NETZSCH Pumps & Systems is the largest enterprise unit within the NETZSCH Group, with annual sales of more than 380 million Euros.
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