Mink brushes
| August Mink GmbH & Co. KG, Mink Bürsten
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1845 in Stuttgart |
| Seat | Goeppingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg |
| management | Andreas Fuchs, Michael Müller, Daniel Zimmermann |
| Number of employees | 460 |
| sales | > 55 million EUR (2019) |
| Branch | Manufacturing |
| Website | www.mink-buersten.com |
| Status: 2020 | |
The August Mink GmbH & Co. KG , better known by its brand name Mink brushes , is a German manufacturer of industrial brushes with headquarters in Baden-Württemberg Göppingen-Jebenhausen . The company is considered the world market leader in the field of bundle bristles.
history
Founded in 1845 as a small brush binding company by August Mink in Stuttgart.
In 1900 the King of Württemberg appointed the brush binding company to the royal court purveyor.
In 1945 the company building was destroyed in an American bomb attack. After the reconstruction, the small company employed five people in Uhingen .
The former managing partner Peter Zimmermann joined his father's company in 1975. He decided to specialize the company in exclusively technical brushes in a bundle system. In 1980 Peter Zimmermann set the course for further company growth with the construction of new company buildings.
In 1982 Mink developed the first modular system for roller brushes, the "Mink Zig-Zag System". This was followed by the “Mink Kett System”, a brush concept for transport and handling as well as for surface cleaning, and the “Mink Flex System” for sealing any gaps and openings.
Another brush system was brought onto the market in 2004 with the Mink spreader roller for smoothing film and material webs. The Mink Care system for the gentle assembly of sensitive components was developed in 2007.
In 2011, the company premises were expanded to include the Mink Campus with administration and factory buildings. The latest development - the "Mink Bubble Brush" - has been on the market since 2014.
In 2015, Peter Zimmermann brought his company shares (80%) into a family foundation, the Peter Zimmermann Foundation.
In 2017, construction of another production building (Plant 4) began at the Göppingen location.
At the beginning of 2019, the name was changed to August Mink GmbH & Co. KG and the existing production building (Plant 3) was expanded to include a hall.
Company data
The company's headquarters with 460 employees and the company's sole production site are located in Göppingen-Jebenhausen. Together with five European sales offices (England, Denmark, the Netherlands, France and Italy) and sales representatives (Austria, Spain and Poland), Mink Bürsten looks after customers worldwide.
Products
80% of the brush solutions produced by Mink are custom-made, for example for the automotive, food, furniture, wood or solar industries. A further 120,000 standard solutions are used in almost all manufacturing industries worldwide.
Academy / Awards
The company's own academy was founded in 2007. The concept of the Mink Academy was awarded the “Innovation Award for Continuing Education” of the Stuttgart Chamber of Industry and Commerce in 2013 and in 2014 the “IHK Education Award” for outstanding commitment in corporate training from the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Otto Wolff Foundation.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures , Cologne 2010
- ↑ Supplier to the royal court in 1900 . Archive Altshausen website . Retrieved April 10, 2019.
- ↑ IHK Innovation Award for Continuing Education 2013 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
- ↑ IHK Federal Education Award 2014 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
