Optima packaging group
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1922 |
| Seat | Schwäbisch Hall |
| management | Hans Bühler, Jürgen Kuske ( GF ) |
| Number of employees | 2,450 (2019) |
| sales | EUR 400 million (2019) |
| Branch | Packaging machines |
| Website | www.optima-packaging.com |
The OPTIMA packaging group GmbH is an international group of companies with headquarters in Schwäbisch Hall and a manufacturer of filling and packaging machines .
Optima employs more than 2,400 people worldwide (beginning of 2019). Over 85% of the machines and systems are sold abroad. The consolidated turnover in 2019 was 400 million euros.
history
The company was founded as Optima-Maschinenfabrik in 1922 by Otto Bühler. Filling scales for food and other products were the beginning before World War II . The first exports to Western and Eastern Europe followed in the 1930s . Large parts of the company were destroyed in the final months of the war in 1945. The company's founder's son, Max Bühler, began rebuilding after the war. In 1950 the range was expanded to include packaging machines .
In 1970 the company developed its first packaging machine for hygiene products . Hans Bühler, son of Max Bühler and one of today's managing directors , joined the company in 1980. In 1984, the US subsidiary Optima Machinery Corporation was founded in Green Bay , Wisconsin . In 1992 INOVA Pac-Systeme GmbH was taken over , and in 1995 Optima Japan Co. Ltd. was founded. and 1997 from Optima Brazil .
In 1998 Optima took over Julius Kugler Co. & GmbH with filling and closing machines for the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry, and in 1999 Amotek in Italy. The packaging group GmbH was founded in 2000, followed by a subsidiary in Mexico and Medicon GmbH & Co. KG the following year . A subsidiary in Great Britain was added in 2002 .
In 2005, Hans Bühler received the Baden-Württemberg Business Medal . In 2007 the Optima Group Pharma (Schwäbisch Hall, Germany) was founded as a merger of the brands Inova, Klee and Kugler (Pharma division). In 2008 the Optima Packaging Machines branch was founded in Shanghai, China. In 2011, Optima took over Metall + Plastic in Radolfzell, which manufactures isolators and decontamination systems for pharmaceutical products. Optima intends to invest around 50 million euros in the Schwäbisch Hall locations by 2013. In 2012 the Doyen Medipharm brand was bought and merged with Medicon in OPTIMA life science GmbH. Furthermore, the companies SFVision, Kugler, Stern and a division of Optima filling and packaging machines GmbH were combined in OPTIMA consumer GmbH. For this purpose, a new administration building with an area of 4,000 m² was built, which was moved into in 2013. The name of OPTIMA filling and packaging machines GmbH was renamed OPTIMA nonwovens GmbH.
Today Optima is the world market leader in machines for packaging diapers and feminine hygiene products in foil bags, in portion packs such as pads or capsules for coffee and tea and in functional closures for food, each with a world market share of between 60% and 80%.
Business areas
- Optima Pharma: Pharmaceutical filling systems, capping systems, freeze-drying systems, isolator and containment technology for vials, ampoules and syringes for the pharmaceutical industry.
- Optima Life Science: Production and packaging lines for medical products such as wound dressings, foamed wound dressings and diagnostic products as well as for pharmaceutical products such as transdermal patches
- Optima Nonwovens : modular packaging systems for paper hygiene products, packaging systems for wet wipes in plastic boxes and foil bags
- Optima Consumer : Packaging machines and systems for the food and chemical industries, production and packaging lines for coffee and tea portion packs as well as manufacturing and packaging machines for composite soft boxes, packaging systems for the cosmetics industry , machines for paper hygiene and home care products as well as food
literature
- 75 years of OPTIMA - fragments from three generations 1922–1997 , Schwäbisch Hall 1997.
- Kirchner, Peter: The cluster region Heilbronn-Franconia . Regional culture, Ubstadt-Weiher 2011, ISBN 978-3-89735-679-5 .
- Peter Tognotti, Rudolf Büchner: Tinkerer. Schaffer. World leader. 150 years of packaging machine construction in southwest Germany , 2011, Packaging Valley e. V., Schwäbisch Hall and Packaging Excellence Center (PEC), Waiblingen (Ed.)
- Kurt Neuffer: Today's inventors. On the history of special machine manufacturers in the Hall district , 1990, in: Haller Tagblatt .
- 50 years interpack , 2008, Messe Düsseldorf GmbH (ed.), ISBN 978-3-00-026141-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b optima-packaging.com/en-us/company - Company website, Retrieved May 14, 2017.
- ↑ a b Klamm: Further sales growth in 2016. FutureAD Neue Medien GmbH & Co.KG, March 27, 2017, accessed on March 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .