Azo (company)
| AZO Holding GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1949 |
| Seat | Osterburken , Germany |
| management | Rainer Zimmermann |
| Number of employees | 1020 |
| sales | 167 million euros |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.azo.com |
| As of December 31, 2017 | |
AZO is a company in the field of automation of raw materials and processes.
Products
The AZO Group operates the planning, manufacture and assembly of plants, systems and machines for the automation of production processes for the storage, discharge, sieving , conveying, dosing and weighing of bulk goods , powdery components and liquids , primarily for feeding mixing processes.
AZO solutions, systems and products are used in the food , pharmaceutical , cosmetic and chemical industries , pet food and in the processing and manufacture of plastics .
Their portfolio includes dosing systems , big bag emptying systems, container, conveyor , suction weighing, sieving, silo and discharge systems, as well as the corresponding IT systems for plant, mixer, process and recipe control, batch tracking , remote maintenance , and visualization , Support, tracking and tracing , and other applications.
history
In 1949, Adolf Zimmermann and his wife Marianne opened a mill construction company in a former sheepfold in Osterburken . At the beginning he designed machines for mills and bakeries after work. In 1951 he built the first semolina cleaning machine “Pyramidal” and in 1952 the first centrifugal flour sifter “Triumpf” from AZO came onto the market. This is considered the prototype of today's eddy current sieving machines and was designed in cooperation with a master baker. As early as the mid-1950s, AZO was supplying the bakery and bread industry with complete flour, sieve, loosening and tempering systems.
In 1963 the company with 80 employees moved into a new 2,500 m² hall. The development of pneumatic suction weighing systems for feeding kneaders and mixers and silos in shell construction, which fit into every building thanks to a standardized modular system, was successful. The increased sales activities made AZO the market leader in this field after a few years.
In 1978 the first foreign sales company was founded in Memphis (Tennessee) . AZO manufactured complex contactor controls until 1979 . In 1980, AZO started developing special feeding software and began building electronic weighing controls. A major order from the spice industry in 1983 led to the development and use of fully automatic dosing container systems. In the 1980s, AZO developed systems for small component automation . Different containers such as sacks, big bags and containers required different automation requirements. The company developed handling systems for the various containers for this purpose .
Development from 1990
From January 1, 1990 to December 31, 2017, AZO GmbH + Co. KG was managed by Adolf Zimmermann's sons Robert and Rainer Zimmermann. Denise Zimmermann, the third generation of the Zimmermann family, joined the management team in 2013.
The company's founder Adolf Zimmermann died on March 15, 2013 at the age of 90. In 1987 he was made honorary citizen of the city of Osterburken for his many years of service in the municipal council of the city of Osterburken and for his entrepreneurial activity. In 1988 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. His sons are also involved in society. Robert Zimmermann is on the supervisory board of the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University and on the board of the local university council of DHBW Mosbach .
Rainer Zimmermann has been the sole managing director of the AZO Group since January 1, 2018.
Corporate structure
The AZO Group employs 1038 people (as of 1/2017) and generated 180 million euros worldwide in 2016. The AZO Group has its headquarters in Osterburken and locations in Neckarsulm , Hanover , and Neuenburg am Rhein . Internationally, the group of companies operates sales companies in the USA , Belgium , France , Thailand , the United Kingdom , the People's Republic of China and Russia .
In 2004 the company hsh-systeme für prozess-IT GmbH, founded in 1979 by Dieter Herzig, was integrated into the AZO group for the creation of process control and visualization technology . At the beginning of 2008 the company zoatec GmbH for liquid and semi-solid goods was founded in Neuchâtel / South Baden. Since the introduction of a new corporate identity within the AZO Group in 2013, the sister companies have appeared as AZO CONTROLS GmbH (formerly hsh-systeme) and AZO LIQUIDS GmbH (formerly zoatec).
January 1st. In 2019, the two sister companies AZO CONTROLS GmbH and AZO GmbH + Co. KG were merged by way of a legal merger. The acquiring company is AZO GmbH + Co. KG.
literature
- Waldemar Pförtsch , Indrajanto Müller: The brand within the brand: The meaning and power of ingredient branding , Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, 2006 ISBN 978-3-540-30057-1 , p. 56
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2017 in the electronic Federal Gazette
- ^ AZO GmbH & Co, 74706 Osterburken, DE - Patents. Accessed January 30, 2018 .
- ↑ AZO GmbH & Co. KG | Trading stocks. Accessed January 30, 2018 (German).
- ^ Vogel Business Media GmbH & Co. KG: Azo mourns the company founder Adolf Zimmermann . ( vogel.de [accessed January 30, 2018]).
- ^ Vincentz Network GmbH & Co. KG: AZO mourns Adolf Zimmermann. Accessed January 30, 2018 (German).
- ^ DHBW Mosbach ::. Accessed January 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Company profile 2016 - AZO GmbH + Co. KG - PDF Catalog | Technical Documentation | Brochure. Retrieved January 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Merger of AZO CONTROLS GmbH with AZO GmbH + Co. KG on January 1, 2019. Accessed on May 9, 2019 .