ON THE RIGHT PATH FROM THE GET-GO
A keen instinct for the needs of our customers and our employees – HOLZER's success has been built on this.
| 1990 | Founding of the Franz Holzer engineering office |
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| 1993 | Service portfolio expansion with the start-up of a machine construction workshop |
| 1995 | Construction of a new factory building in Herbrechtingen-Bolheim. Our service range is enlarged considerably with major OSRAM orders regarding lamp finishing and final inspections |
| 1997 | HOLZER now has 27 staff members – construction of a second production hall |
| 2000 | Development and construction of a highly efficient plant for signal lamp sorting and packaging. HOLZER employees and now also trains additional staff |
| 2003 | The founding of HOLZER Slovakia s.r.o. in Nové Zámky creates additional capacities in the individual production and service department for our customers. This means: even shorter response and delivery times, as well as the highest level of adherence to delivery dates. |
| 2005 | First orders from Asia |
| 2007 to 2012 | Lamp inspection for OSRAM using pressure chambers |
| 2008 | The assignment from OSRAM to develop and manufacture an assembly plant for spotlight lamps, and to assemble the products at HOLZER, required a fifth factory hall |
| Presentation of the packaging machine CELINE (now known as the “HOLZER VP-08”) at the FACHPACK trade fair together with Carl Edelmann GmbH | |
| 2012 | Generation change at HOLZER: Franz Holzer hands over general management to his oldest son, Olaf Holzer |
| HOLZER takes over the production department “Collection Systems” for injection-moulding machines from RW Beier GmbH in Köngen. The service department is enlarged by the assembly and testing of valve inserts and the assembly of tube extensions | |
| A technical product designer, a mechatronics engineer, a cutting machine operator and two DHBW students in mechanical engineering start their training | |
| 2013 | HOLZER starts an extensive staff development programme. Staff members increase their responsibility and decision-making competence |
| 2016 | Development of the “Strategic Sales and Marketing” department to intensify customer support. A CRM system is implemented in this connection. |
| 2017 | Development of the HOLZER TECHNOLOGY CENTRE (HTC) for the development of assembly and testing automation and for the implementation of process tests for our customers |
| Initial participation in the international trade fair for production and assembly automation, Motek, in Stuttgart | |
| 2018 | The executive management is augmented by Thomas Bassmann |
| 2020 | Holzer starts refining products for the cosmetics industry |
| 2022 | The executive management is augmented by Patrick Schulz |