Symbol of a success story
Bausch + Ströbel: early machine in the Town Hall lobby
The builder of custom packaging machinery for pharmaceutical applications is letting us see a little piece of industrial history and is thus documenting its attachment to the Ilshofen area.
Ilshofen. It took the apprentices at the well-known sterile packaging machine builder about 450 hours worth of work to get this piece of Bausch + Ströbel history shipshape and gleaming again.
The AFV 1000 ampoule filling and closing machine was unveiled at a ceremony in the lobby of the Ilshofen Town Hall in the presence of the two designers and company founders, Siegfried Bullinger and Rolf Ströbel. The machine uniquely symbolizes the company's evolution from a small business with its origins in Michelbach an der Bilz into an international operation with some 850 employees and an export share of more than 90 percent.
The exhibited machine, with more than 100 pieces built between 1967 and 1986, will have its final home in the proposed extension of the new company offices. As Mayor Roland Wurmthaler affirmed, "The presentation at the Town Hall is yet another illustration of the close link between the company and the town of Ilshofen." (ibe)
