Silvio Gruber, Head of Corrugated Board at cutting-die manufacturer Marbach, took his well-deserved retirement shortly before Christmas. Gruber worked in various management positions at the Heilbronn-based company for 37 years before his current retirement.
Silvio Gruber's professional career began with an apprenticeship as a toolmaker. After completing his 2-year military service, Gruber began working in this profession and attended a master craftsman course as well as a Further training in the then brand-new eroding technology.
After holding various positions, Gruber ended up at Marbach in 1984. He initially applied for a job in the thermoforming division, but things turned out differently: Marbach was looking for a successor to Walter Kübler, who was responsible for the corrugated board rotation division at the time. And so Gruber already had very good prospects when he joined Marbach. After taking over the web press division, Gruber's next steps were as follows Various management positions at Marbach in the flat and rotary corrugated board sector, both as product group manager and in sales. In the year Gruber was granted power of attorney in 2010.
„Silvio Gruber worked for Marbach for a large part of his professional career. With his work over several decades, he has contributed to the success of the company. When Mr Gruber started with us, our corrugated board turnover was DM 1 million. We have expanded steadily over the years. Today, our global turnover in the corrugated board product area is more than 30 million euros.“
Peter Marbach, Managing Partner at Marbach
How many years Gruber worked at Marbach can also be seen in the Changes in the manufacture of rotary moulds. At the beginning of Gruber's activities, the production of a rotary cutting die was purely manual work: the packaging layout was applied to the rotary half-shell using a pencil drawing and then sawed by hand using a special jigsaw. Later, the Manufacturing process increasingly automatedFirst, the pencil drawing was replaced by a plotter drawing, which was glued onto the rotary half-shell, then a controlled saw was used.
Today, the packaging layouts for rotary trays are cut by laser. But here, too, there are current and future changes: In order to achieve a contribution to environmental protection, Marbach is increasingly using milling technology instead of laser cutting. a. This is because milling is much more energy efficient than laser cutting and CO2 emissions are significantly lower.
„We would like to thank Mr Gruber for his tireless commitment to the Marbach company and wish him good health and all the best for the future.“
Peter Marbach
Source: Marbach
