IVF Hartmann

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IVF Hartmann Holding AG

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legal form Corporation
ISIN CH0187624256
founding 1870
Seat Neuhausen am Rheinfall SH SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
management Claus Martini
(Chairman of the Management Board )
Rinaldo Riguzzi
( Chairman of the Board of Directors )
Number of employees 376 (December 31, 2016)
sales 134.7 million CHF (2016)
Branch Health industry
Website www.ivf.ch

The IVF Hartmann Holding AG , headquartered in Neuhausen am Rheinfall is an international Swiss manufacturer of medical consumables. The core activities of the group of companies include the four business areas of wound care , incontinence , surgical products and first aid . These areas are supplemented by various product segments such as cotton wool , therapeutic warm patches , feminine hygiene, baby hygiene and immobilization.

The group of companies, which includes three other subsidiaries in addition to IVF Hartmann AG, employs around 380 people and generated sales of 134.7 million Swiss francs in 2016. The shares of IVF Hartmann Holding AG are listed on the Swiss stock exchange SIX Swiss Exchange listed .

history

The company was founded by Heinrich Theophil Bäschlin as the “Schaffhauser Woll- und Cottoncarderie”. This began in 1870 in Schaffhausen with the manufacture of antiseptic and hydrophilic bandages . The basis for this was the knowledge of Victor von Bruns , who in 1865 was the first to succeed in degreasing cotton and thus making it absorbent. In 1871 the "Schaffhauser Woll- und Cotton Carderie" processed cotton for the first time in the world on an industrial scale into cotton wool .

In 1874, with the help of leading surgeons from Germany and Switzerland, Bäschlin converted his company, which had meanwhile been renamed "Factory for medical bandages", into a stock corporation called "Internationale Verbandstoff-Fabrik Schaffhausen" (IVF). As a result, the product range was expanded, acquisitions were made and in 1908 a new factory was moved into in Neuhausen am Rheinfall. Over the course of the 20th century , the IVF grew continuously both through the expansion of the product range and the opening of new locations as well as through various takeovers. With the acquisitions of Isoplast AG (1972), which specializes in plasters, Kistler AG (1984), which specializes in cotton wool, and Vlesia AG (2000), which specializes in incontinence products, IVF continuously expanded its business areas.

In 1993 the German Hartmann Group acquired 60 percent of IVF's share capital, which until then had been held by Galenica in Bern. Since then, the company has been operating under the name IVF Hartmann under the umbrella of the Hartmann Group.

literature

  • Albert Steinegger: Heinrich Theophil Bäschlin . In: Schaffhauser Contributions to History. Biographies Volume II . 34th year 1957, pp. 213–216 ( PDF file; 193 kB )

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