Mesutronic Gerätebau GmbH & Co. KG is to be sold. Indus Holding AG intends to acquire 89.9 per cent of the shares in the developer and manufacturer of inspection systems, it was announced at the end of May. The takeover, which still has to be approved by the cartel office, is part of a company succession plan.
Mesutronic is based in Kirchberg im Wald and was founded in 1992. According to its own information, the company is one of the leading providers of systems for Metal and foreign object detection for industrial applications. In 2018, Mesutronic achieved a turnover of over 24 million euros. The company employs 200 people at sites in Germany and France.
„Mesutronic is a company that is exactly to our taste because it is active in one of the industries of the future that we have defined.“
Johannes Schmidt, Chairman of the Management Board of Indus
Previous owners remain largely in the company
„We have been supplying our customers with customised system solutions for 27 years with High-frequency metal detectors and Foreign object detectors on an X-ray basis for installation in complex production systems,“ says Karl-Heinz Dürrmeier, Managing Partner of Mesutronic. He comments on the takeover as follows: „With Indus, we have found a parent company with which we can maintain our typical medium-sized virtues and yet continue to grow rapidly internationally. The Company succession This means that there will be no impact on existing customer and supplier relationships or for our international sales partners; all existing training and employment relationships will continue as usual.“
The majority of the previous owners of the company will retain a stake in Mesutronic. The company will continue to be managed independently, and the former management will continue the integration into the Indus-Group, the press release explains further.
Inspection solutions for all process steps
Mesutronic offers Inspection solutions for almost all process steps. On the one hand, systems are offered to protect production facilities from metal parts and other foreign objects. On the other hand, the portfolio includes systems for inspecting products for Metal-free and other contaminants. These applications are used in the food and pharmaceutical industries, among others. Pharmaceutical industry to bear. The systems are produced exclusively at the company's headquarters in Kirchberg in the Bavarian Forest.
High precision Sensors detect unwanted foreign bodies. Particularly dynamic Sorting equipment remove contaminated products from production processes without having to interrupt them. Both discrete Product flows such as packaged foods as well as continuous Material flows such as plastic granulate.
[infotext icon]The Indus Holding AG is based in Bergisch-Gladbach and was founded in 1989. As a medium-sized Holding company It focuses on the long-term development of companies in the fields of construction and infrastructure, automotive technology, mechanical and plant engineering, medical and healthcare technology and metal technology. Indus currently holds investments in 45 companies, according to Indus. Annual turnover in 2018 totalled around 1.7 billion euros.
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