Hellma
| Hellma Holding GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1922 |
| Seat | Muellheim , Germany |
| management | Lutz Mayer (managing partner) |
| Number of employees | 395 |
| sales | EUR 44.93 million |
| Branch | optics |
| Website | www.hellma.com |
| As of December 31, 2016 | |
The Hellma Group , headquartered in Müllheim in southern Baden , has been known as the most important supplier of cuvettes for manufacturers of spectrophotometers since 1922 . Today Hellma operates worldwide, has 13 subsidiaries and works with around 50 agencies (as of 2010). The group includes the companies Hellma Analytics, Hellma Optics and Hellma Materials. Hellma produces at its sites in Müllheim and Jena. Hellma Analytics focuses on cuvettes made of glass and quartz , fiber optic probes, solutions for microvolume analysis and calibration standards for spectrophotometers . The Optics division produces and markets plan, cylinder and toric optics. Hellma Materials grows and sells calcium fluoride crystals for use in microlithography. The group employs around 330 people worldwide. The company has been family-owned since it was founded. The Hellma companies are DIN EN ISO 9001 certified . Hellma Analytics also has environmental certification in accordance with DIN EN ISO 14001 and an accreditation of the calibration laboratory in accordance with DIN EN ISO 17025. Group sales amounted to approx. 26 million euros (as of 2009).
history
When it was founded in 1922, the delivery program consisted of simple optical glass parts and hollow glass bodies with plane-parallel optical windows - known in technical terms as so-called cuvettes . These cuvettes were originally used in polarimeters, colorimeters and spectroscopes. At the beginning of the 1950s, the importance of photometry as a detection method in analytical measurement technology grew. As a result, the demand for more and more diverse and technically sophisticated cuvettes up to the flow channels with microchannels offered today for use in analytical instruments for flow cytometry increased .
Hellma began its global expansion with the establishment of its first foreign subsidiary in France in 1963. Two years later, Hellma moved to a new building in the industrial area of Müllheim, where the company's headquarters are still located today.
Shortly after the fall of the Wall , Hellma Optics was founded in Jena in 1991 - a spin-off of Jenoptik Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH. Hellma Optics' main activities are flat and cylinder optics.
The 1997 and 2001 Nobel Prize winners for physics worked with special cuvettes for ultra-high vacuum from Hellma. Only a few years later, Hellma presented an optical component called TrayCell, which could be used to measure the smallest sample volumes in many normal spectrophotometers. For the development and marketing of the TrayCell, Hellma received recognition at the Baden-Württemberg Innovation Prize in 2008. Also that year, a quartz glass mini-reactor was brought to the International Space Station ISS on the 24th flight of the NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis. The mini-reactor was part of the Protein Crystallization and Diagnostics Facility (PCDF) in the European Drawer Rack of the Columbus Raumlabor and was used to investigate crystal growth under weightlessness. In 2008, Hellma opened the first company daycare center in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district .
Hellma is a premium partner in the Microtec Südwest top cluster, which won the top cluster competition of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research ( BMBF ) in January 2010 . At the analytica 2010, Hellma will present the world's first internet service portal for UV / Vis calibration standards called Calimetrix. In 2010, Hellma acquired the calcium fluoride production of Schott Lithotec AG and incorporated it into the group as Hellma Materials.
Memberships in associations and institutions
- Spectaris (German industrial association for optical, medical and mechatronic technologies)
- wvib (Association of Industrial Companies Baden eV)
- FOM (Research Association for Precision Mechanics, Optics and Medical Technology)
- MaCS (Marketing Club South Baden)
- IHK Südlicher Oberrhein
Products and services
- Glass and quartz cuvettes
- Flow Channel (a cuvette for flow cytometry )
- Micro volume analysis solutions
- Fiber optic probes
- Calibration standards for spectrophotometers
- Calibration services
- Cylinder optics (glass and quartz)
- Plan optics (glass and quartz)
- Toric optics (glass and quartz)
- Special optics (glass and quartz)
- Calcium fluoride crystals for use in microlithography or in laser optics
Industry sectors
Industries in which Hellma products are used:
- Quality inspection
- Environment and water industry
- Agribusiness
- Process industry
- Mechatronics
- Cosmetics industry
- Art restoration
- Aerospace Industry
- Laser industry
- Research and Development
- Food, beverage and tobacco industries
- Micro- and nanotechnology
- Biotechnology and life sciences
- Chemical and medical industries
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Paper industry
- optical-precision engineering industry
Web links
- hellma-worldwide.com
- www.hellma-analytics.com
- www.hellma-optics.com
- www.hellma-materials.com
- Company portrait of the Hellma Group , accessed on September 1, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2016 in the electronic Federal Gazette