October 1 marks 50th anniversary of technotrans SE
Development from garage company to international technology group
Heinz Harling publishes book on company history
The technotrans group of companies with its headquarters in Sassenberg celebrated its 50th anniversary on 1 October 2020. Having started out as a family-run sideline business in a garage in the Westphalian province, technotrans is now one of the world's leading solution providers in the field of liquid management. The company is represented at 18 locations in Europe, America, Asia and Australia. The company owes this success in particular to its high level of technological expertise and the continuous development of new industries and markets. Just in time for the anniversary, Heinz Harling, Chairman of the Supervisory Board and technotrans veteran, recounts the history of the company and the people involved in it in his factual and entertaining book "Alles fließt".
"The future needs a strong foundation and history, as Heinz Harling aptly writes, is the foundation on which every company stands. That is why today we are honouring the successes of the past while at the same time keeping a firm eye on the challenges that lie ahead," says Michael Finger, Spokesman of the Board of Management of technotrans SE.
On October 1, 1970, Franz Böhnensieker and his wife Josy founded the company Böhnensieker Maschinen Konstruktionsbüro (BMK) in a garage in Harsewinkel, East Westphalia, and thus laid the foundation stone for the later technotrans SE. Over the next 50 years, technotrans developed, driven by a successful management buy-out, into an internationally active, listed group of companies with seven production locations and more than 1,400 employees. The Sassenberg-based solution provider made its breakthrough with dampening solution circulators and cooling and temperature control systems for the printing industry. Today, technotrans is a growth company that operates successfully in numerous other sectors, including the plastics processing industry, the laser and machine tool industry, electromobility and medical and scanner technology.
"We are proud of our successes, which we owe to customers, employees, partners and founders alike. In order to continue to write the history of our company, technotrans will continue to build on its expertise and position in the market," emphasises Finger.
Everything flows: A book on the history of the company
The technotrans history is available in print for the first time in the anniversary year. The author of the almost novelistic book about the history of the technology company, which was published in July and by no means only illuminates the successful sides of its development, is Heinz Harling. For more than 40 years, Harling has been supporting technotrans in various functions - from sales manager and managing director to chairman of the Board of Management and chairman of the Supervisory Board. The company's history, entitled "Everything flows", is an eventful account of the path from a garage business in the Münsterland region to an international company, and looks above all at the people behind this development.
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