Multivac Sepp Haggenmüller

Multivac group
legal form	SE & Co. KG
founding	1961
Seat	Wolfertschwenden , Germany
management	Christian Traumann, CFO / CEO; Guido Spix, CTO;
Number of employees	6400 (2019)
sales	over 1 billion euros (2018)
Branch	Packaging machines, packaging systems
Website	multivac.com

Multivac Sepp Haggenmüller SE & Co. KG is a manufacturer of packaging machines and packaging solutions of all kinds. The company is based in Wolfertschwenden in the Upper Swabian district of Unterallgäu .

history

The company was founded by Sepp Haggenmüller in 1961 in a small garage in Böhen , about 20 km southeast of Memmingen . The first machine manufactured by Sepp Haggenmüller was a vacuum chamber machine with the type designation A4 . Just two years after it was founded in 1963, the company had 10 employees. The company moved for the first time in 1965. The company headquarters remains in Böhen, but in January 1965 the company moves into a new building in Böhen. In 1967 Multivac built the first thermoforming packaging machine . In 1970 the location in Böhen was given up and the company relocated to Wolfertschwenden , about 4 km away . The company's founder, Sepp Haggenmüller, died on May 25, 1971 in a car accident. After the death of the company founder and sole managing director, the management passed to Heinz Brenne and Artur Vetter. Artur Vetter dies in 1981, from which time until 2003 Heinz Brenne was managing director. After that, the management passed to the current managing director Hans-Joachim Boekstegers.

The head office is in Wolfertschwenden. Research and development , design, manufacture and production of the packaging machines take place at this location . In addition to the headquarters, Multivac is also represented at three other locations in Germany; this has been Multivac Marking and Inspection in Enger since 1993, Multivac Resale & Service in Nettetal-Kaldenkirchen since 2005 and the Multivac Slicer development center in Buchenau (Dautphetal) since 2017 . On July 3, 2019 it was announced that the company would like to take over the insolvent mechanical engineering company Fritsch (company) at Markt Einersheim near Kitzingen on August 1, 2019, but without land and buildings.

internationalization

International Multivac maintains in Austria , in addition to a sales office in Vienna, since 1974 a production plant in Lechaschau . In 2011 more than 300 employees worked in this plant. The sales organization abroad was expanded in 1972 with the establishment of the first subsidiary in France . A sister company had already existed in Switzerland since 1969 to coordinate international exports. In 1987 a subsidiary is founded in Kansas City , USA . By this point in time, subsidiaries had already been established in Switzerland (1969), the Netherlands (1981) and Great Britain (1985). Today Multivac is a multinational company with 65 subsidiaries and customers in more than 140 countries and a total of around 5,900 employees. At the Wolfertschwenden location, the company employs 2,800 people on company premises of 50,000 m².

Employee development

Products

Multivac on the southern outskirts of Wolfertschwenden

The Multivac product range mainly consists of packaging machines. There are also other products in the field of food processing. The products essentially consist of:

Thermoforming packaging machines
Vacuum chamber machines
Chamber belt machines
Traysealers
Handling modules for complete system lines
Identification systems

The machines produced by Multivac are primarily used to pack food, but also sterile medical goods and consumer items. The company is the market leader in Germany in the field of thermoforming packaging solutions . A thermoforming machine first stamps the pre-produced plastic shell. The embossed shell of the deep-drawing machine is then filled with meat or other food, for example, and sealed with a cover film.