Bühler Food Equipment

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Bühler Food Equipment GmbH

logo
legal form GmbH (holding company)
founding 1905
Seat AustriaAustria Austria , Leobendorf
management Germar Wacker
Number of employees 1750
sales 373 million CHF
Branch Mechanical and plant engineering
Website buhlergroup.com
Status: 2018

The Buhler Food Equipment GmbH , formerly Haas Food Equipment GmbH is a company based in Leobendorf that are part of the Buhler Group is.

Companies

The former Haas Group manufactured systems for biscuit, waffle and cake production. The company, which was run in the fourth generation of the family at the time of sale in 2017, had production sites in Leobendorf ( Lower Austria ), Skovlunde and Jutland ( Denmark ), Almere (Holland), Curitiba (Brazil) and Shanghai (China).

Products

Products are machines and systems for the production of wafers , snacks, biscuits, crackers, cakes, ice cream cones, soft waffles and convenience food products as well as mixing and ventilation systems for dough, chocolate and marshmallows. The range includes dough mixers, industrial ovens, coolers, pastry formers, cut pastry machines and processing stations up to the pre-packaging stage.

Corporate structure

Haas Food Equipment GmbH was made up of several companies, whereby integration into the Bühler Group is still pending:

  • FHW Franz Haas Waffelmaschinen GmbH (Austria)
  • CFT Haas Convenience Food Equipment GmbH (Austria)
  • Haas-Meincke Austria GmbH (Austria)
  • Haas-Meincke A / S (Denmark)
  • Haas-Meincke Holland BV
  • Haas-Mondomix BV (Holland)
  • Haas do Brasil Industria de Maquinas ltda.
  • Franz Haas Machinery of America Inc.
  • Haas Food Machinery (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.

Sales and service offices are:

  • Franz Haas Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)
  • Haas Colombia SAS
  • Haas Food Equipment India Private Ltd
  • OOO Haas (Russia)
  • Franz Haas Gıda Üretim Makina Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd. Şti (Turkey)

history

In 1905 Josef Haas founded a building and machine fitter in Vienna. His three sons Franz, Josef and Karl took over the business in 1933. During the Second World War, parts of the production were relocated to Kaplice in the occupied Czech Republic, where Franz Haas discovered his love for the material while repairing a waffle iron. In 1948 he returned to Vienna and presented his first specially produced wafer machine - the HV6 - at the Vienna Trade Fair in 1949.

Encouraged by the success of his first machine, he and his wife founded the Franz Haas wafer machine company in 1966. During this time, the four children Josef, Franz, Margarete and Johann started working in the company, who took over the company in 1974. A year later, the entire production was relocated from Vienna to a larger plant in Leobendorf, Lower Austria. In 1979 the company received the state award and thus the right to use the federal coat of arms in business dealings.

Branch offices in Curitiba (Brazil) and Richmond , Virginia (USA) followed. In 1983 Haas took over the wafer batter mixing specialist Danger and in 1986 the German biscuit machine manufacturer Hecrona, which enabled the company to build up its expertise in the biscuit machine sector.

With the integration of the Dutch mixer and aerator specialist Mondomix in 2002 and the German manufacturer of wafer cone baking systems GAM Steinhoff in 2003, the company developed into an internationally active group of companies.

In 2005 the fourth generation - Josef Haas, Johannes Haas and Stefan Jiraschek - took over the management of the company. One year later, Haas opened a sales and production site in Shanghai (China). In 2009, 85% of the Danish DFE Meincke Holding was taken over, which took on the pioneering role in the biscuit machine sector within the Haas Group.

As part of the further development of the Haas Group, Franz Haas Waffel- und Keksmaschinen-Industrie GmbH was divided into three independent companies with production facilities in Leobendorf in spring 2012:

  • FHW Franz Haas Waffle Machines GmbH
  • Haas-Meincke Austria GmbH (support for the Danish Haas-Meincke A / S)
  • CFT Haas Convenience Food Equipment GmbH.

Together with Haas-Mondomix BV in Holland and Haas-Meincke A / S in Denmark, these companies are the development locations of the machine portfolio.

The sales and service network was continuously expanded. Haas established sales and service offices in Singapore (2001), Colombia (2011) and India (2013), as well as service locations in Russia (2013) and Turkey (2015).

The Haas Group is a regular exhibitor at international supplier fairs for the confectionery industry such as ProSweets Cologne, IBA , the world trade fair for bakery, confectionery and snacks and interpack in Germany, at Bakery China, Fispal in Brazil and IBIE in the USA.

In September 2017, the sale of the Haas Group to the Swiss technology group Bühler AG was announced, which is intended to complete the product portfolio of the Consumer Foods division of Bühler AG. The takeover was completed in January 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. St. Galler Tagblatt: Bühler swallows Viennese wafer machine companies , September 12, 2017, accessed on April 16, 2018.
  3. Bühler AG: Annual Report 2018
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  7. by Jasmin Hüller, Michael Ley: Becoming a world market leader through inventive spirit, Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-8000-7150-9 , p. 61.
  8. Successful Family History on The Executive. Accessed June 10, 2014.
  9. Lust for waffles in the standard from May 15, 2008, accessed on June 10, 2014.
  10. ProSweets Cologne | Exhibitor search , accessed on June 11, 2014. Archived from the original on July 25, 2017.
  11. iba exhibitor , accessed on August 12, 2014.
  12. interpack exhibitor , accessed on June 11, 2014.
  13. IBIE 2016. Retrieved September 13, 2017 (English).
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  15. Haas is now part of the Bühler Group. Haas Group, January 10, 2018, accessed April 16, 2018 .