{"id":696,"date":"2016-12-08T23:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T22:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.packaging-journal.de\/multipond-erster-waegeautomat-europas\/"},"modified":"2020-11-27T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T10:43:06","slug":"multipond-first-automatic-weighing-machine-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/multipond-erster-waegeautomat-europas\/","title":{"rendered":"Multipond - from running weight and pointer scales to the first automatic weighing machine in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

In October 1947, ATOMA Gesellschaft f\u00fcr automatische Waagen GmbH is entered in the commercial register. The company specialises in the construction and repair of all types of scales. Since Wilhelm Ludwig Kr\u00e4mer founded the company, it has developed into one of the world market leaders after an eventful history. Today, the MULTIPOND brand stands for quality, reliability and innovative, customised solutions worldwide.<\/p>\n

The escape from the approaching Soviet army takes Wilhelm Ludwig Kr\u00e4mer<\/strong>, the founding partner of the ATOMA-MULTIPOND Group, moved to Upper Bavaria shortly before the end of the war. Together with his father, who had had to leave his engineering office behind in Berlin, he initially stayed with farmers in the small village of Traunwalchen.<\/p>\n

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Company founder Wilhelm Kraemer around 1970.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The trained engineer was not yet 30 years old at the time and did not want to remain idle. He decides to set up a company together with a friend who had previously worked as a businessman in the weighing industry. The company is located 70 kilometres east of Munich and 35 kilometres north of Lake Chiemsee. Apart from the forest and a few buildings of a disused explosives factory, there is nothing there. Sudeten Germans who had to leave their homeland at the end of the war later founded the small town of Waldkraiburg there.<\/p>

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Difficult starting times<\/h2>\n

The company was founded in October 1947 as ATOMA Gesellschaft f\u00fcr automatische Waagen GmbH<\/strong> was founded. Initially, the company made a living from repairing war-damaged scales. The aim is to manufacture automatic indicating scales, hence the company name. The partner soon leaves, and Wilhelm Ludwig Kr\u00e4mer continues to run the company alone. However, due to a lack of raw materials and suppliers, from 1946 to 1950 only Hand-operated running weight scales<\/strong> are manufactured according to the founder's design drawings. To purchase raw materials and semi-finished products, material purchase vouchers must initially be obtained from the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs.<\/p>\n

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Scales exhibition on the occasion of the founding of the municipality of Waldkraiburg in 1950.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With the currency reform on 21 June 1948, the situation changes abruptly and series production of scales can finally begin. In 1950, the production of automatic pointer scales<\/strong> which are mainly used in industry and commerce, railway stations, post offices and Raiffeisen banks. ATOMA has already made a name for itself, but is still struggling to survive.<\/p>