Henke-Sass, Wolf

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Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH

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founding 1921
Seat Tuttlingen , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Kathrin McKenna, Nina Stackmann, Oliver Bärtl, Silke Hartmann
Number of employees 1,500 (2019)
Branch Medical technology
Website www.henkesasswolf.de

The Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH is a medium-sized medical technology company in the field of endoscopy based in the Baden-Württemberg Tuttlingen . The company is the world's technologically leading OEM manufacturer of rigid endoscopes. In addition, Henke-Sass, Wolf manufactures dental products and a wide range of veterinary products. The company employs around 1500 people worldwide. The export share is 80 percent.

Ownership and management

Busch Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH owns 50.68% of the shares in Henke-Sass, Wolf . In 2008 the daughters of the company owner Jochen Busch, Kathrin McKenna and Nina Stackmann, joined the company management as shareholders. The company is led by a dual leadership. Since June 2018, Dr. Oliver Bärtl one of the company's two managing directors. Silke Hartmann has been co-managing director since July 2019.

Locations

The company's main location is in Tuttlingen. The company premises on Keltenstrasse in the Möhringen district are located between the upper reaches of the Danube and federal highway 311, about four kilometers west of the city center. The building has been expanded and modernized again and again and offers a production area of ​​15,500 square meters. The company management as well as the areas of research and development, marketing and sales, final assembly, quality inspection and service are located here.

The headquarters of Henke-Sass, Wolf in Tuttlingen

Another location is Henke-Sass, Wolf Mikrooptik GmbH in Nörten-Hardenberg near Göttingen . The manufacturer of high-precision micro-optical components operated under the name Nolte & Grzeszik until 1997 and has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Henke-Sass, Wolf since 1997. The company manufactures the lenses and optical components for the endoscopes. In 2015, the production area for optics production was expanded to 4500 square meters with a new building. Since 1991, Henke-Sass, Wolf of America Inc. in Dudley ( Massachusetts ) has had a branch in the USA with 190 employees. The location takes care of direct customer contact on the North American market and the production of new endoscopes.

Further locations have been in Nowy Tomyśl, Poland, since 1994 and in Qingdao in the east of the People's Republic of China since 2006 . In October 2015, Klaus Wenkert Medizintechnik GmbH in Seitingen-Oberflacht was also acquired. The company is one of the leading original equipment manufacturers of instruments for urology and gynecology.

history

On August 15, 1921, the Henke company was founded by Georg Andreas Henke. Henke manufactures his first products, injection syringes, in a cellar at Gerberstrasse 13 in Tuttlingen. In 1932 the company had around 50 employees. In 1938, the Henke company also started producing cannulas. In 1956 the Henke company developed the calibrated and therefore exchangeable glass cylinder for syringes. During the economic boom , the company also manufactured hearing aids and, inspired by the success of the DUAL company from St. Georgen , record players and changers. In 1956 the company acquired a larger factory building in Tuttlinger Kronenstrasse, and the company now had around 400 employees.

In 1960 the Berlin endoscopy producer Sass, Wolf & Co., founded by Albert Sass and Hans Kollmorgen in 1922, was taken over. In 1965 Georg Andreas Henke sold the company to the American conglomerate Litton Industries. The US company introduced the production of disposable plastic syringes. In 1973, Henke and Berlin-based Sass, Wolf & Co. merged to form Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH. Endoscope production in Berlin is closed at the end of 1972 and relocated to Tuttlingen. In 1976, the current owner of the company, Jochen Busch, bought the company Henke-Sass, Wolf. Since then, the company has concentrated on the manufacture of products in the field of medical endoscopy, veterinary medicine, flow measurement technology and the manufacture of syringes and needles. In 1987 a new plant was built in the Möhringen district of Tuttlingen. The building in the Gänsäcker industrial area has also been the headquarters since 2008. Starting in 2008, the current campus of Furtwangen University will develop from the company building in Kronenstrasse . Henke-Sass, Wolf is committed to the support association of the Tuttlingen university campus.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Imprint
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h henkesasswolf.de: history
  3. ↑ TechnologyMountains - Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Federal Gazette : Busch Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH. Consolidated financial statements for the financial year from October 1, 2013 to September 30, 2014
  5. ↑ Henke-Sass, Wolf regulates Lekitsch succession. Retrieved January 8, 2020 .
  6. ↑ PressReader.com - Newspapers from around the world. Retrieved January 8, 2020 .
  7. ↑ KMS GmbH & Co KG http://www.kms-wektiven.de : Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH - history. January 8, 2020, accessed January 8, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Brochure from the Tuttlingen district on the medical technology cluster , 2016
  9. ↑ KMS GmbH & Co KG http://www.kms-wektiven.de : Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH - locations. January 8, 2020, accessed January 8, 2020 .
  10. ↑ KMS GmbH & Co KG http://www.kms-wektiven.de : Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH - Wenkert product range. January 8, 2020, accessed January 8, 2020 .
  11. ↑ a b Henke-Sass, Wolf (ed.): The company history of HSW . Tuttlingen 2011, p. 12-24 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 57 ′ 39 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 50.9 ″  E