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Distribo
2004 wurde der Lager- und Logistikbereich von Sartorius ausgegliedert. Es entstand das Joint Venture Distribo unter Beteiligung des Göttinger Speditions- und Logistikunternehmens Friedrich Zufall GmbH & Co. KG.
2014 , Distribo opened the new logistics center at the Siekanger site in Goettingen, Germany, with approximately 15,000 m². From here, both the worldwide shipment of laboratory and process technology products and the production supply of all Sartorius locations in Goettingen are carried out.
2016 , the warehouse space was expanded from 15,000 to 25,000 square meters. The growth of Sartorius requires an expansion of the logistics area in Goettingen. To this end, ZUFALL logistics group is investing around five million euros for the expansion.
Sartorius
The company's history began on July 1, 1870, when Florence Sartorius (1846-1925) opened the F. Sartorius precision mechanics workshop on Groner Strasse in Göttingen.
The company's rapid success was based primarily on a newly designed short-arm analytical balance made of the then new light metal aluminum. To this day, weighing technology remains an important mainstay of the Group.
At the beginning of the 1960s, Sartorius used the first machine for the automatic production of synthetic membrane filters. In the course of global expansion, more and more companies and sales offices were established abroad.
At the beginning of the 1960s, Sartorius used the first machine for the automatic production of synthetic membrane filters. In the course of global expansion, more and more companies and sales offices were established abroad.
1990 Sartorius AG went public on the stock exchange.
1994 By using monolithic weighing system technology in semi-microbalances and analytical balances, Sartorius achieved a significant increase in quality. The monolith replaced a complicated weighing system composed of up to 150 different parts. The mechatronic system was the basis for many subsequent generations of balances.
In 2001 a new plant was commissioned in the Grone industrial park on the northwestern outskirts of Göttingen. In the same year, the company received the Innovation Award of German Industry for a high-tech analytical balance.
In 2011, the legal Group structure was further developed into a holding company: the Annual Shareholders' Meeting resolved to operate the then operative mechatronics business, which until then had been conducted within Sartorius AG, in a separate company below the holding level.
As of January 2012, Sartorius managed its operating business in the three divisions Bioprocess Solutions, Lab Products & Services and Industrial Weighing. In the same year, Sartorius was admitted to the German technology index TecDax.
At its headquarters in Goettingen, Germany, Sartorius inaugurated a new membrane building; the company also expanded its filter plant in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and opened a new plant for the production of bioreactors in Guxhagen, Germany.
2013 A new production building for the injection molding of plastic parts was opened in Göttingen
Zufall
On June 1, 1928, Friedrich Zufall founded Hessische Fern-Verkehr Friedrich Zufall GmbH in Kassel.
1934-1937 branches were added in Fulda and Göttingen as well as Bremen and Bremerhaven.
After Kassel was repeatedly bombed, the company headquarters were moved to Göttingen in 1942/43. After the death of Friedrich Zufall in the same year, Gerhard F. Müller became managing director and took over the company shares in Osterode, Hann. Münden and Hamburg.
In 1948 the company changed its name to Hessisch-Südhannoverscher Fernverkehr Friedrich Zufall and in 1965 to Friedrich Zufall Internationale Spedition (since 1976 GmbH & Co. KG).
In 2007, the company acquired a stake in Transland Spedition GmbH and Team Trans Hamburg GmbH, as well as Team Trans Logistics GmbH (2016), the company simultaneously strengthened its range of services in the areas of land transport and sea freight.
Since 2013, Gerhard Müller's son, Peter Müller-Kronberg, has been managing the family business together with Jürgen Wolpert.
In May 2017, after a one-year test phase, the company announced the deepening of its cooperation with the start-up company Pamyra at the Nohra site. The cooperation includes collaboration on a digital sales platform for transport services.