Servona

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Servona GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1949 (as Dr. Kuhn & Co. GmbH )
Seat Troisdorf , Germany
management Managing directors
Sikko Böhm, Jörg Riemann
Number of employees 439
sales EUR 49.3 million
Branch Medical technology , homecare
Website www.servona.de
As of December 31, 2018

The Servona GmbH is a manufacturer of medical devices and medical-technical devices and a home care company based in Troisdorf . In Germany the company operates 14 medical supply stores . The majority shareholder has been the Droege Group since 1999  .

This became known in 1949 as Dr. Kuhn & Co. founded the company primarily for its speech aids developed under the brand name “Servox”. These are devices that enable patients to speak again with electrical assistance after they have lost their natural voice due to an operation on the larynx or trachea .

history

Dr. Kuhn & Co GmbH (1949 to 1990)

The company was founded by the chemist Alfred Kuhn in 1949 with the company name Dr. Kuhn & Co. GmbH was founded as a manufacturer of both chemical-pharmaceutical and medical-technical products. By 1958 the company developed its first electronic speaking aid. From 1961 the company was part of Madaus , which was newly founded in Radebeul in 1951 .

In 1962, the “SERVOX speaking aid” was launched on the market. The medical progress towards the artificial larynx up to 1982 opened the way to the improvement of speech aids in the 1980s. With the technical development at Dr. Kuhn & Co. under developer Peter Griebel, the company was able to add another important element to its long-held patents .

In 1988 Hassheider Medizintechnik from Cologne was taken over. Klaus Hassheider also held a patent in the speech aid sector since the mid-1970s. After its founding in 1974, his company had developed into a provider of voice amplifiers, but also of technology for the medical care of patients undergoing a tracheotomy or laryngectomy , which subsequently expanded the product range of Dr. Kuhn & Co. expanded.

Change of company and owner (1990 to 2008)

In 1990 the two companies merged to form SMT Servox Medizintechnik GmbH . The seat of the company was Cologne . In 2000, the company was converted to the stock corporation SERVOX AG . The management consultant Walter Droege had gradually acquired the majority in its parent company Madaus . In 2007 he decided to sell his shares to the Italian Rottapharm . However , he had previously separated SERVOX AG from Madaus . She remained part of his own group of companies. At the end of 2007, the legal form of SERVOX changed from a stock corporation back to a GmbH.

Servona GmbH (from 2008)

In September 2008 the company was given its current name Servona GmbH . To complement this, Droege acquired the medical supply store group Zieger from Dortmund in 2012, which specializes in orthopedic care.

Hoffrichter GmbH was taken over in 2014 . The agreement provided for the retention of the company founded by Helmut Hoffrichter in 1992 and a managerial role for Jens Hoffrichter, the former co-owner and son of the founder. The manufacturer of ventilation technology based at the Schwerin location of the technology and commercial center Schwerin / Wismar had been in economic difficulties since 2011. After the founder was named Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 and the company grew to 130 employees, sales fell in 2011. The 2012 financial year ended with a turnover of 5.3 million euros and a loss of 642,000 euros. Even within the Droege Group , Hoffrichter did not succeed in sustainably improving capacity utilization in production, which is why further staff reductions had to be announced at the end of January 2017.

In June 2014 the takeover of Nicolai-Vital-Resort GmbH , which specializes in the supply areas of orthopedic and rehabilitation technology as well as home care in the healthcare sector, took place. In 2016 the Servona sp. z oo in Poland and Servona BV in the Netherlands . The company maintains two further locations in China through Servona Medtech Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and Suzhou Atmotech Co., Ltd.

Business areas

Homecare

Supply and transfer of critically ill patients in their home environment in the areas of respiratory therapy and ventilation , tracheostomy and laryngectomy , enteral and parenteral nutrition, incontinence care , wound care , ostomy care , and rehabilitation and orthopedics.

Medical technology

Various devices, aids and consumables, including the speaking aids still manufactured under the brand name "SERVOX", which was introduced in 1962. At HOFFRICHTER - Servona Respiratory Care , devices for ventilation are produced under the brands "CARAT", "TREND" and since summer 2017 also "LAVI".

literature

  • W. Herzog, D. Neumann: An artificial electronic larynx . In: Phonetica Vol. 13, No 3, 1965, pp. 117-133 doi: 10.1159 / 000258483
  • Electronic device replaces human larynx . In: Elektro-Technik , No. 36 of December 28, 1963, p. 37 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Servona GmbH , 2018 annual financial statements in the Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ Servona - HomeCare & Medical Technology. In: Company website of Servona GmbH. May 10, 2017. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b cf. z. B. Patent DE3529553 : Speech aid for larynx operated patients . Published on February 26, 1986 , applicant: Kuhn Dr & Co, inventor: Peter Griebel. ‌
  4. ↑ Patent DE2515006 : Bionic speech equipment for laryngotomy patients - uses impulse generator as separate unit from pharyngonasal sound vibration vibrator. Published on October 21, 1976 , inventor: Klaus Hassheider. ‌
  5. ^ Siegfried Hofmann, Katharina Kort: Madaus Pharma becomes Italian . In: Handelsblatt , June 14, 2006, accessed on May 25, 2017.
  6. ↑ Droege Group buys the Zieger medical supply group. In: management-krankenhaus.de. April 16, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Droege Group takes over Hoffrichter GmbH. In: Press release Droege Group . June 30, 2014, accessed May 23, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Droege International Group takes over medical technology manufacturer Hoffrichter . In: Press release Technologie- und Gewerbezentrum Schwerin / Wismar , May 27, 2017, accessed on May 30, 2017
  9. ↑ a b Stefan Rochow: Medical technology manufacturer from Schwerin is reducing employees. In: Schwerin-Lokal. January 30, 2017. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Homecare: Servona integrates court judges. In: Doctors newspaper. May 22, 2014. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Droege Group takes over NICOLAI-Vital-Resort GmbH. In: Press release Droege Group. May 22, 2014. Retrieved May 25, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Servona Sp. Z oo In: pkt.pl. Retrieved May 25, 2017 (Polish).
  13. ↑ Servona BV In: company.info. Retrieved May 25, 2017 (Dutch).
  14. ↑ HOFFRICHTER - Servona Respiratory Care: HOFFRICHTER: Schwerin company presents its new development in Cologne. Press release. In: Schwerin locally. July 11, 2017. Retrieved July 22, 2017 .