PRESS RELEASE
Pressekontakt:
ProTec
Stubenwald-Allee 9
64625 Bensheim
Alfred Kimpel
Telefon: (0 62 51) 77061-300
Schoeller Holding GmbH
OHL Engineering GmbH
PET Recycling Technologies
Pariser Str. 2
65552 Limburg
Arnold Jahn
Telefon: (0 64 31) 28099-148
MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
Renate Vorberg
Telefon: (089) 55277-0
Harald Kettenbach
Telefon: (0 71 41) 98-2583
SCHOELLER INDUSTRIES takes over ProTec,
a subsidiary of MANN+HUMMEL
OHL Engineering GmbH PET Recycling Technologies, a subsidiary of
SCHOELLER, Pullach near Munich, has taken over the operative business of
the MANN+HUMMEL subsidiary ProTec, with headquarters in Bensheim. With
this acquisition the traditional family enterprise has consequently expanded its
division Schoeller Plast Industries in the field of plastics processing and
recycling and has also taken on all employees from MANN+HUMMEL ProTec
GmbH. The takeover comes into force on 30th April 2012.
Bensheim, 30th March 2012 – The filtration specialist MANN+HUMMEL is selling its
subsidiary MANN+HUMMEL ProTec GmbH as per 30th April 2012 to OHL
Engineering, a subsidiary of Schoeller Plast Industries. The present Managing
Director of MANN+HUMMEL ProTec GmbH, Mr Alfred Kimpel and Mr Arnold Jahn,
CEO of Schoeller Plast Industries will jointly be Managing Directors of the new
enterprise which will trade under the name ProTec and carry both SOMOS and OHL
brands. The buyer will take on all MANN+HUMMEL ProTec employees.
“Schoeller Plast Industries is very interested in our well-rehearsed team, our
operative experience and know-how”, says Alfred Kimpel. “With this new company
we will achieve a strategically important expansion of our existing businesses with
the aim to expand on European and worldwide markets with high grade components
and units “Made in Germany” ”, add Arnold Jahn and Christian Uhlik, Managing
Director of the Schoeller Holding.
Schoeller Plast Industries operates worldwide and is a well-respected partner in the
industry with reusable packaging systems, caps for drinks’ bottles and the processing
and recycling of plastics. OHL Engineering designs and promotes turnkey PET
bottle-to-bottle recycling units.
In 2011 MANN+HUMMEL ProTec increased its turnover by around 22 per cent to
approx. 20 million Euro and ranks internationally among the most well-respected
vendors of devices and systems for material handling in the plastics industry.
“ProTec has now found its new partner of choice in Schoeller Plast Industries. This
gives the company strategic perspectives which were not possible in combination
with a filtration expert”, comments MANN+HUMMEL Managing Director Frank Jehle
to the sale.
The company develops, configures and sells solutions for all of the plastics
processes used today. The brand names SOMOS and VOLLMAR belong to the
product portfolio. With over 50 agencies across the globe, the material handling
specialist attends to customers from various sectors; from foodstuffs, via automobiles
through to the toys industry. In the new combination with Schoeller Plast Industries,
the product line will be extended into the fields of plant engineering and process
technology for the optimisation of the material characteristics of PET and for the
recycling of PET.
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About SCHOELLER
SCHOELLER, with its headquarters in Pullach near Munich, operates worldwide with approx. 1,700
employees in the manufacture of reusable plastic packaging systems, PET recycling and technologies
in the field of regenerative energies. More information about Schoeller Industries can be found at
www.schoeller.org
About MANN+HUMMEL
MANN+HUMMEL is development partner and series supplier for the international automobile and
machine construction industries. In 2011, around 14,400 employees at over 40 locations worldwide
generated a turnover of around 2.5 billion Euro. The products of the company include air filter
systems, suction systems, fluid filter systems, cabin air filters and cylinder head covers made of plastic
with a high integration level for the automobile industry as well as filter elements for the service and
repair of vehicles. For machine construction, process technology and industrial production the product
portfolio includes industrial filters, a programme for the decrease of soot emissions in diesel motors,
membrane filters for water filtration. Further information about MANN+HUMMEL can be found at
http://www.mann-hummel.com.
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