From a small workshop in Selb to an internationally successful mechanical engineering group: NETZSCH is ringing in its 150th anniversary year – and over four,one hundred workers worldwide are becoming a member of within the celebration.
The beginning is a replica of the identical start-up pattern we regularly see right now: Two brothers arrange their own business in 1873 and, in a small workshop in Selb, developed a top quality product that received over the hearth departments of the region. The fire extinguishers from the “Gebrüder Netzsch Maschinenfabrik” were a giant seller. From there, Thomas Netzsch, a locksmith, and his youthful brother Christian Netzsch, an engineer, went on to develop machines for ceramic manufacturing that had been also famend for his or her high quality. With the growth of the porcelain business at that time in the Fichtelgebirge, the company lastly concentrated totally on the manufacturing of the ceramics business equipment.
Thus, a hundred and fifty years in the past, the success story of a family-owned company began, which at present spans the globe with its three business units “Pumps & Systems”, “Grinding & Dispersing” and “Analyzing & Testing” – with products such as the Mohno pump, moist mill and rheometer, with round 210 production and sales locations and greater than 4,100 staff. Today, the NETZSCH Group is once again headed by two brothers from Selb: Moritz and Paul Netzsch. As the fifth technology of the Netzsch family of homeowners, they run the company together with CFO Jens Niessner.
“Our historical past supplies answers”
What began in 1873 in a workshop in Selb has, in fact, long outgrown its infancy. But NETZSCH wants to remain true to its family values and roots. In this anniversary 12 months, Moritz Netzsch emphasizes: “It is necessary to me that we now have a secure, continued development of what we do today. My want is that, with all of the reflection, with all the necessary rethinking and new thinking, we develop organically, and bring the corporate into the subsequent generation stronger than ever.”
This is one of the explanation why NETZSCH had its company history researched from a selection of views for its a hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Looking into the previous not solely substantiates values and successes, it also reveals the fit of a worth proposition. “Our historical past supplies solutions as to why we now have existed for so long. Our slogan ‘Proven Excellence’ is not any empty phrase. We can prove our excellence from our history. 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 adjustments in the corporate world or in 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 through the heyday of the porcelain trade, NETZSCH constructed full factories for the ceramic industry. 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 items. “We wish to switch this historically grown adaptability into the future as properly,” explains Moritz Netzsch.
Success over generations
Looking again also has a personal part. Especially when necessary milestones in the company’s historical past could be attributed to Erich Netzsch (1903-1990) and Thomas Netzsch (1946-2010). Both managing administrators have formed the corporate in their very own distinctive method and introduced it forward with groundbreaking selections. The discovery and additional improvement of the Mohno pump under Erich Netzsch and the intensive internationalization beneath Thomas Netzsch are just two examples. The firm nonetheless advantages from these formative choices at present. After all, success at NETZSCH all the time has a cross-generational component. The similar applies to an understanding of values and quality that, for generations, has not only centered on the company’s own products and clients, but additionally on its employees. Thus, 25- and even 40-year anniversaries are nothing uncommon at NETZSCH – even internationally. The average length of service of the worldwide workforce at NETZSCH is high at 10.6 years. At the German areas, staff even stay employed for an average of thirteen years.
CFO Jens Niessner is satisfied: “You can really feel our NETZSCH spirit at every location. Our values, the financial success, the angle for the workers – this pairing sparks an aura that makes us competitive even in locations the place other firms with a excessive worldwide profile are situated.” The result: Niessner repeatedly experiences deja vu throughout worker interviews all over the world: “I usually meet employees, whether it’s in China, Brazil or Waldkraiburg, and realize in dialog: the son or daughter now also works for us. Our spirit isn’t only inherited by the owner family, but additionally by our workforce.
“We drive industrial progress”
Meanwhile, the vision for the future is set: in 2022, the corporate has launched a brand new strategy for the three business items. “ pressure gauge 10 bar drive industrial progress to sustain a profitable eco-system by way of generations” – the new mission for the longer term reveals a strengthened will to shape issues at NETZSCH. Looking again offers courage, however above all it makes us want to sit up for the lengthy run. And this future must be characterized by innovation greater than ever. Since 2019, for example, staff have been involved in the development of futuristic concepts in NETZSCH’s own innovation incubator NEDGEX and are always looking out 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 yr, NETZSCH is planning extensive celebrations – including in any respect main international locations. The company will share the assorted facets of its historical past with its workforce, clients and partners, in addition to involved members of the public, in a magazine and an anniversary blog.
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For more data 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 personalized, sophisticated solutions for functions in every trade type. Experts in complex 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 models, metering expertise and equipment. With a workforce of more than 2,200, NETZSCH Pumps & Systems is the biggest enterprise unit within the NETZSCH Group, with annual sales of more than 380 million Euros.
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