BEGO

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BEGO group of companies

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legal form Limited partnership
founding 1890
Seat Bremen , Germany
management
  • Felix Levold
  • Axel Klarmeyer
  • Walter Esinger
Number of employees 410 (2014)
sales 76.2 million (2014)
Branch Medical technology
Website www.bego.com

BEGO company complex

The BEGO group is a German dental company based in Bremen .

The company supplies dental technicians and dentists with equipment, instruments, materials and processes for the production and processing of dentures (precious and precious metal-free alloys, ceramics, implants).

history

Beginnings

The company was founded in 1890 by the Bremen dentist Wilhelm Herbst (1842–1917). The name "Bremer Goldschlägerei" still reminds of its origins: Herbst laid the foundation of the company with the idea of ​​processing dental gold. While the metal was previously hammered into the cavity - to the chagrin of the patients at the time - Herbst first made the material cohesive over a flame and created a gold foil. This in turn was processed into sealing gold in the form of gold pellets, which could then be more easily inserted into the cavity and adapted. The rotation method he developed quickly caught on worldwide. The dental pioneer recorded the results of his 25 years of experience in 1895 in his book "Methods and Innovations in the Field of Dentistry".

1945 to 2000

During the Second World War, the premises of BEGO Bremer Goldschlägerei in Bremen and Berlin were almost completely destroyed. In 1945 the then young Joachim Weiss , his father Fritz Weiss and Theodor Herbst , son of the company's founder Wilhelm Herbst, dedicated themselves to rebuilding the company in Bremen. Less than ten years later, Joachim Weiss became the official partner. Before that, he contributed to the market launch of the precious metal-free Wironit alloy . In 1976 the Bego training center, the Bego Training Center, was inaugurated. This was the first time that the company offered its own training opportunities. With the help of the international dealer network, the first international company headquarters was established in Canada in 1989. Further branches abroad followed later. There was also a structural change within the Bremen gold beating mill: In 1990 Bego founded the company "BEGO Semados GmbH" (today "BEGO Implant Systems GmbH & Co. KG"), which has since specialized in implantology products and services. With the entry of son Christoph Weiss and the move to the new building in the Technology Park University in Bremen, there were soon further changes within the Bremen dental company.

Developments since 2000

In 2000, the managing partner Christoph Weiss was awarded the “Elite of the Future” award by Wirtschaftswoche magazine . The company has been a co-partner and official supplier of the German Olympic teams since 2002. At the Olympic Games , BEGO provides a dental team on site in the German House, where athletes, officials and others can receive free dental care. This was most recently the case at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where BEGO looked after the German toboggan runner and silver medalist David Möller after he had bitten off a tooth on his medal.

In 2004, BEGO was awarded the “Laser Technology Innovation Prize” by the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in the operational practice category. In 2008 Lothar Späth awarded the company the “TOP 100” seal of approval, which, according to the organizers, makes it one of the 100 most innovative medium-sized companies in Germany.

Products

Considerable importance for the global dental market BEGO has most recently by the development and patenting of a digital process for the fully automatic production of dental prosthesis obtained ( "selective laser melting" / selective laser melting ). Labor-intensive steps such as manual scaffolding in the laboratory can thus be replaced. This increases not only the product quality but also the cost-effectiveness of the dental prosthesis. The company holds, among other things, European patents and registrations for the use of CAD / CAM technologies in the dental sector, which include protection when creating dentures by means of laser melting as well as process optimization.

Corporate structure

BEGO Bremer Goldschlägerei Wilh. Herbst GmbH & Co. KG

For more than 125 years, the Dental division has been producing primarily precious metal (EM) and precious metal-free (EMF) dental alloys as well as equipment and materials for the production of high-quality dentures. Well-known products include a. the biocompatible alloys wironite and wironium . Since 2006 the company has also been offering ceramics for further processing in the dental laboratory.

BEGO Medical GmbH

The core activity of the company, which was founded in 2002, is the development and provision of digital methods for the manufacture of dentures: The user sends his framework, which has been virtually modulated on the computer, to BEGO via the Internet, where it is then made from precious metal, cobalt-chrome, titanium or ceramic and returned to the user.

BEGO Implant Systems GmbH & Co. KG

BEGO has been developing and manufacturing dental implants, prosthetic components for implants and implantology accessories for the global dental market since 1990. BEGO Semados GmbH & Co KG emerged from BEGO Bremer Goldschlägerei Wilhelm Herbst GmbH & Co. KG in 1992 and is now run as an independent company. Since March 1st, 2005 it has been operating under the name BEGO Implant Systems GmbH & Co. KG.

literature

  • Joachim Weiss: Questioning what is already there. The Bremer Goldschlägerei yesterday and today - a company chronicle. Self-published, Bremen 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Electronic Federal Gazette, March 7, 2016, consolidated financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014
  2. https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ebanzwww/wexsservlet
  3. ^ Stentenbach, Margret: Wilhelm Herbst (1842-1917) - a pioneer in dentistry , dissertation, University of Cologne 1970.
  4. Herbst, Wilhelm: Methods and innovations in the field of dentistry , Odontologische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1895.
  5. Joachim Weiss: To question what is already there. The Bremer Goldschlägerei yesterday and today - a company chronicle. Self-published, Bremen 2005, p. 56 ff.
  6. Joachim Weiss: To question what is already there. The Bremer Goldschlägerei yesterday and today - a company chronicle. Self-published, Bremen 2005, p. 97
  7. Joachim Weiss: To question what is already there. The Bremer Goldschlägerei yesterday and today - a company chronicle. Self-published, Bremen 2005, p. 181
  8. Wirtschaftswoche , edition 15/2000, p. 160.
  9. http://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen-maerkte/gemeinsam-kochen-422509/
  10. Olympia 2010: BEGO saves winners smiles ( memento from March 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Oemus Media AG
  11. Fraunhofer ILT; Laser technology innovation award ( Memento from July 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  12. http://www.lifepr.de/pressemmeldung/bego-bremer-goldschlaegerei-wilh-herbst-gmbh-co-kg/boxid-53962.html
  13. http://www.top100.de/documents_top100/uebersicht.asp?action=participant_show&participant_id=36030F6B2176D57B  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.top100.de  
  14. Strietzel, Roland and Lahl, Claudia: CAD / CAM systems in laboratory and practice , Verlag Neuer Merkur, Munich 2007.