In July, ALPMA was honored with the Bavarian SME Award (Bayerischer Mittelstandspreis) for its special significance as a medium-sized company in Bavaria. This success is primarily due to the commitment and passion of our employees.
As a leading mechanical engineering company, we are committed to reducing our ecological footprint and actively taking responsibility for the environment and society. By building the new boiler house, we are replacing around 150,000 liters of heating oil a year with renewable, regenerative raw materials.
At the turn of the year, Gisbert Strohn, Managing Director of the ALPMA Group for many years, retired. He led ALPMA very successfully for almost two decades.
With Michael Weber, a man from the company's own ranks is taking over the technical management of the company. He joined ALPMA in 2018 and has been part of the management team from the very beginning. As before, ALPMA will be managed by a dual leadership team.
ALPMA is further expanding its leading position as market and technology leader with the acquisition of a majority stake in the Swiss plant manufacturer SULBANA, which specializes in pasta filata and semi-hard cheese.
In mid-September, ALPMA celebrated its 70th anniversary with invited guests from all over the world. Thousands of visitors joined in the celebrations.
ALPMA Turkey and ALPMA USA are founded.
Frank Eberle joins the management team, which will once again consist of the traditional ALPMA dual leadership.
... the ALPMA Group is expanding its commitment in France with the acquisition of its competitor Servi Doryl. With this step, ALPMA is adding the typically French Bassine technology to its product range and completing its range of cheese molds.
... is a year of mourning for the company. In March, junior boss Mathias Hain dies after a serious illness at the age of 42.
In 2003, Gisbert Strohn starts working for the company as Technical Managing Director.
In 2005, Gottfried Hain hands over the management of the company to Gisbert Strohn and his son Mathias Hain. Gottfried Hain remains available to the company as an advisory board member and consulting partner.
Gottfried Hain successfully led the company into the new millennium with a keen sense of technical innovation and market requirements. In 2000, his son Mathias Hain joined the management team.
... ALPMA acquires the plant and mechanical engineering company LTH Dresden with approx. 80 employees and adds the Process Technology division to its existing activities.
At the end of the year, the first industrial coagulator is put into operation at the Alpenhain subsidiary.
At that time, it still had a capacity of 10,000 liters of milk per hour.
Gottfried Hain junior drives forward numerous pioneering innovations that establish ALPMA as a leading provider of cheese-making and packaging technology.
His most important developments include the coagulator for continuous curd production, the full mechanization of cheese production with block moulds, the CUT cutting machines for semi-hard and hard cheeses and the SAN series packaging machines for soft cheeses.
ALPMA has always been one of the most important training companies in the region. In 1963, in-company training was inaugurated in the new training workshop in Lehen.
Gottfried Hain junior officially takes over as Managing Director and ushers in a new era for the company. Under his leadership, the company headquarters are relocated from Lehen to Rott am Inn, where the new ALPMA plant is built step by step.
At the same time, he establishes a global sales network that includes subsidiaries in France, Great Britain, Switzerland and Spain.
Gottfried Hain junior übernimmt offiziell die Geschäftsführung und leitet eine neue Ära für das Unternehmen ein. Unter seiner Führung wird der Firmensitz von Lehen nach Rott am Inn verlegt, wo Schritt für Schritt das neue ALPMA-Werk entsteht.
Gleichzeitig baut er ein globales Vertriebsnetz auf, das Tochtergesellschaften in Frankreich, Großbritannien, der Schweiz und Spanien umfasst. Zusätzlich werden Vertretungen in allen weiteren Ländern mit Käseproduktion etabliert.
Gottfried Hain always focuses on the wishes and suggestions of his customers. As early as 1953, the company delivered its first machines to France, a country renowned for its cheese-making tradition, especially for cheeses such as Camembert and Roquefort.
After graduating as an engineer from the Technical University of Munich, Gottfried Hain junior gained practical experience there and worked for a year in various cheese dairies.
Die Wünsche und Anregungen seiner Kunden stehen für Gottfried Hain stets im Mittelpunkt. Bereits 1953 liefert das Unternehmen die ersten Maschinen nach Frankreich, das für seine Käsetradition bekannt ist, gerade für Käsesorten wie den Camembert und Roquefort.
Nach seinem Abschluss als Diplom-Ingenieur an der TU München sammelt Gottfried Hain junior dort praktische Erfahrungen und arbeitet ein Jahr lang in verschiedenen Käsereien.
Alpenland Maschinenbau GmbH is formed, which is henceforth known as ALPMA and is entered in the commercial register.
Lehen (Upper Bavaria): Cheese dairy owner Gottfried Hain is struggling with persistent problems - stubborn packaging films and an acute shortage of staff are hampering operations. The solution is a new type of packaging machine.
With the support of master mechanical engineer and co-founder of ALPMA, Hermann Mieler, a functional machine is developed during the war. The result is convincing: other cheese dairies also show great interest in Gottfried Hain's pioneering invention.
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