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Testo SE & Co. KGaA

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legal form SE & Co. KGaA
founding 1957
Seat Titisee-Neustadt , Germany
management
  • Burkart Knospe (CEO)
  • Herwig Mehrwald
  • Peter Herbs
  • Eckhard Kloth
Number of employees approx. 3,200 (2019)
sales EUR 340 million (2019)
Branch Measuring device manufacturers, measuring solutions
Website testo.de

The Testo SE & Co. KGaA is a global company of Lenzkirch in the Black Forest , located in Titisee-Neustadt , founded 1957th It is the world market leader in the field of portable measurement technology.

The company has 35 subsidiaries, including in China, Japan, Korea, USA, Australia, France, Spain and Italy and employs around 3200 people, of which over 1700 are located in Lenzkirch, Kirchzarten and Titisee. At the end of 2019, the company headquarters was relocated from Lenzkirch to Titisee.

In 2011, Testo exceeded the € 200 million sales mark for the first time and achieved incoming orders of € 208 million worldwide. The company invests around ten percent of its annual group sales worldwide in research and development. In 2018, the company recorded sales of over 300 million euros for the first time.

Testo is a member of the trade association for industrial companies in Baden .

history

Legal development

Today's company Testo SE & Co. KGaA was founded in 1957 as a thermometer construction department of the Lenzkirch branch of Atmos Fritzsching & Co. GmbH Viernheim . Atmos Fritzsching & Co. GmbH was a company active in Viernheim in the medical sector, which had its origins in the Kaiser-Friedrichs Apotheke , founded in Berlin in 1888 . The company manufactured pharmaceuticals as well as medical suction pumps.

Paul Fritzsching , Managing Director of Boehringer & Sons in Mannheim , took a stake in the company in the 1930s because he was interested in the pharmacy's own developments in medical technology. After first bringing the brand and company to Mannheim, the apparatus construction company came to Freiburg im Breisgau in 1938 . There “ Small compressors for technical, commercial, medical and scientific purposes” were manufactured in Rosastraße 9 . When the Freiburg plant was destroyed in an air raid in 1944, the plant was relocated to Lenzkirch in the Black Forest. Hans Bauer, the founder of the thermometer construction department, developed an electronic clinical thermometer with an analog display by 1957. Shortly afterwards, the measuring device was expanded in such a way that it had a much larger measuring range than would have been necessary for determining body temperature. Therefore it was marketed as a second thermometer for industry and research. The product range developed continuously, but moved more and more away from the medical area of ​​Atmos. For this reason, on April 1, 1981, all employees in the electrical measuring devices division moved to the new company Testoterm KG Fritzsching, Viernheim, Lenzkirch plant .

In 1984 the Atmos Fritzsching & Co. GmbH operation of electronic measuring devices was converted into Testoterm Messtechnik GmbH & Co. KG , which was now responsible for development and production. The sales company continued to operate under the name Testoterm Fritzsching GmbH & Co. KG. On January 1, 1993, the two companies merged to form Testoterm Fritzsching GmbH & Co. Managing directors were Gerd Knospe, Wolfgang Hessler and Peter Greiser. Since the product range now went far beyond temperature measurement, the term suffix term was no longer appropriate. Therefore, in July 1993, the company name changed to Testo GmbH & Co.

In 1999, Testo took over 75% of Atmos Medizin Technik GmbH & Co. KG and thus its former parent company. In the same year, the Testo Industrial Services division was spun off. On January 1, 2002, testo GmbH & Co. was converted to testo AG. However, the shares remained in private hands and are not traded on the stock exchange.

In 2005 the Atmos managing directors paid out their shareholder Testo.

On July 1, 2010, the company acquired 100% of the shares in Matter Engineering AG , based in Wohlen, Switzerland . The 16 employees who have specialized in devices for dust measurement continued to work there in the Matter Aerosol AG created by the takeover . The subsidiary has since been deleted and integrated into the mother.

Testo Sensor GmbH was founded in January 2011 . It develops, produces and sells temperature sensors that are installed, for example, in heating and solar systems, for air conditioning in cars or in coffee machines. In 2011, what was then Testo AG offered its extended management 5% of the shares for purchase. The package of shares offered was oversubscribed .

In summer 2016, the legal form of the company changed from Testo AG to Testo SE & Co. KGaA. In March 2017, construction work began on a second building in Titisee, which from the outside will correspond to the first. They are supposed to last two years [obsolete] .

Location development

The Testo location in Titisee on the B 31

The thermometer construction department of Atmos began in the attic of the old school building in Unterlenzkirch. In 1963 the company moved into the villa of the former watch factory in Lenzkirch . Immediately after this building, on the area of ​​the now closed Lenzkirch train station , new production and administration buildings were built in 1971, 1975, 1978, 1982, 1990, 2001 and 2007, so that a total of 800 people were employed in Lenzkirch. Since the capacities in Lenzkirch were exhausted, the construction of the first of a total of four buildings in Titisee began in the spring of 2010 , in which around 250 people have been employed since the beginning of 2012. The second construction phase for Titisee was planned for 2017/2018, so that the site in Titisee will offer space for up to 1200 employees in the final stage. With completion and the move into the second building, Testo relocated its headquarters to Titisee-Neustadt , but the Lenzkirch location will remain.

Products

Testo thermal imager

The company offers measuring devices and measurement solutions for refrigeration, air conditioning and environmental technology, for industrial applications, for exhaust gas analysis and flue gas analysis or the control of indoor air and food quality. Innovative products are a fine dust measuring device, a cooking oil measuring device, thermal imaging cameras, a cloud-based measurement data monitoring system, measurement solutions such as the HACCP management system or devices that can be operated via smartphone such as the Smart Probes.

controversy

In March 2016, the IG Metall union turned to the press and accused the Lenzkirch measurement technology company Testo of preventing the establishment of a works council for several years . All initiatives of the workforce and the union were torpedoed by the management. A secret ballot showed that the employees would not want a works council. In the run-up, however, subtle pressure was exerted on the employees and the unions were prevented from informing the workforce. Instead, the management level campaigned for an alternative system of employee representation, the so-called staff committee.

At the beginning of 2017, a case of fraud became known within Testo. A long-time employee of the company is said to have embezzled 1.5 million euros between 2008 and 2015. To do this, she used the company's voucher system. The company filed a criminal complaint.

subsidiary company

  • Testo Industrial Services GmbH: The company with headquarters in Kirchzarten and subsidiaries in four countries deals with metrological services such as calibration, qualification and validation.
  • Testo Sensor GmbH: The company based in Lenzkirch develops, produces and sells temperature sensors that are installed, for example, in heating and solar systems, for air conditioning in cars or in coffee machines.
  • Production subsidiary in Shenzhen (China)
  • Sales subsidiaries in over 20 countries

Awards

In 2007 the company was recognized as a selected location by the “ Germany - Land of Ideas ” initiative.

In 2009, Testo was awarded the TOP 100 seal of approval as one of the most innovative companies in Germany, as well as by the "Doing Things" initiative of the Association of German Engineers as part of the Deutsche Technikstrasse. In 2010 Testo received the Axia Award in the category, an award from the auditing company Deloitte . The award took place in the category With the customer into the future - from the customer idea to innovation . In 2012 Testo AG was one of the “Top 100 most innovative companies”. In 2013, Testo was voted one of the top 100 best German medium-sized companies by Wirtschaftswoche magazine. In 2014 Testo was recognized by the Munich Strategy Group as one of the 50 innovation champions of German medium-sized companies. The German Design Council honored the testo 870 thermal imager with the German Design Award 2016 in the “workshop & tools” category. In 2016, Testo AG was named Innovator of the Year 2016 by brand eins Wissen and Statista. In 2018 Testo was again awarded the TOP 100 seal of approval.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b [1]
  3. ↑ a b Jörg Buteweg, Peter Stellmach: Testo relocates company headquarters - and for the first time has more than 3000 employees. In: Badische Zeitung . Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Peter Stellmach: Record year and confidence, but also a bit of unease , January 13, 2012, accessed on November 25, 2012
  5. ↑ a b Silent Stars. sachen-machen.org, archived from the original on September 21, 2011 ; accessed on November 13, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Member company of the wvib
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  8. ↑ Lenzkirch: With medical technology to world success. suedkurier.de, June 30, 2004, accessed on January 15, 2017 .
  9. ^ A. Official residents' register of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau, 1943, accessed on December 30, 2016 .
  10. ↑ FAQ - Frequently asked questions. testo.com, accessed on December 26, 2016 .
  11. ↑ a b [Chronicle 1957-2004 Testo AG ]
  12. ↑ Milestones: The history of Testo Industrial Services.
  13. ↑ ATMOS medical technology independent again. (No longer available online.) German Healthcare Export Group, archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; accessed on November 13, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Testo Group grows with the Swiss "Matter Engineering AG" on operating technology & maintenance (b-und-i.de), August 3, 2010, accessed on September 4, 2016
  15. ↑ Matter Aerosol becomes Testo AG. Testo, accessed on September 4, 2016 .
  16. ↑ a b website of Testo Sensor GmbH
  17. ↑ Lenzkirch: Expert for dust measurements. In: Badische Zeitung , July 9, 2010, accessed on July 11, 2010
  18. ↑ Jörg Buteweg: Testo boss Knospe: "We are sticking to our strategy". In: Badische Zeitung. June 11, 2018, accessed June 25, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Peter Stellmach: Titisee: Testo is investing 30 million euros - for 300 new jobs. Badische Zeitung, March 20, 2017, accessed on March 27, 2017 .
  20. ^ Badische Zeitung: Wirtschaft (regional): Testo AG invests 26 million , April 13, 2010, accessed on April 22, 2010
  21. ↑ It shows the political esteem in which Testo is held. In: Badische Zeitung. March 1, 2012.
  22. ↑ Sebastian Wolfrum: IG Metall accuses Testo of preventing a works council. Badische Zeitung , March 11, 2016, accessed on October 5, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Peter Stellmach: Millions of fraud at Testo. Badische Zeitung , January 14, 2017, accessed on April 7, 2017 .
  24. ↑ Website of Testo Industrial Services GmbH
  25. ↑ Land of Ideas: Testo AG is setting new standards for growth and jobs with innovative measurement technology ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.land-der-ideen.de
  26. ↑ Merian extra: Deutsche Technikstrasse
  27. ↑ Peter Stellmach: Success through innovation: Testo creates new sales record , Badische Zeitung, January 20, 2011, accessed on November 25, 2012
  28. ↑ Lenzkirch: Champion of Innovation. Badische Zeitung, May 23, 2014, accessed on November 13, 2016 .
  29. ↑ testo 870. (No longer available online.) In: German Design Award. Archived from the original on April 27, 2016 ; accessed on May 31, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gallery.designpreis.de
  30. ↑ Testo - Innovator of the Year 2016. In: www.netzwerk-suedbaden.de. Retrieved May 31, 2016 .
  31. ↑ https://www.badische-zeitung.de/titisee-neustadt/testo-ist-unter-den-top-100--154316639.html

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