| 2012 |
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Clear structures: SF Vision, Kugler, Stern and part of Optima filling and packaging machines are merged to OPTIMA consumer GmbH. The new administrative building has an area of 4,000 m².
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| 2012 |
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Optima acquires the brand Doyen Medipharm and unites Medicon and Doyen in OPTIMA life science GmbH.
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| 2011 |
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Acquisition of Metall + Plastic (Radolfzell, Germany) – specialist for isolators and e-beam decontamination systems for pharmaceutical products
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| 2010 |
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New assembly hall for S.F. Vision and Kugler Cosmetic with 1,300 m² production space
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| 2010 |
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Participation in Stern Fördertechnik (Schwaebisch Hall, Germany) – specialist for bottle unscramblers, cell wheel sorters and conveyor systems
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| 2009 |
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Lugaia STS (Visp, Switzerland) is a new Premium Partner of Optima Group Pharma
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| 2008 |
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Foundation of the subsidiary Optima Packaging Machines (Shanghai, China)
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| 2008 |
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Autocon and SAC (Markt Schwaben, Germany) merged into Seidenader Automation GmbH, a premium partner of Optima Group
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| 2007 |
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Expansion of office- and assembly-areas in Optima Group Pharma
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| 2007 |
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Kugler (Cosmetic sector) moved to “Solpark” Schwaebisch Hall
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| 2007 |
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Foundation of Optima Group Pharma (Schwaebisch Hall, Germany) – merger of the brands Inova, Klee and Kugler (Pharma sector)
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| 2005 |
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Acquisition of Klee (Gladenbach, Germany) – specialist for freeze-drying and loading systems for pharmaceutical products
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| 2005 |
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Hans Bühler receives the merit medal of the federal state Baden-Württemberg
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| 2004 |
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Acquisition of Autocon (Schwaebisch Hall, Germany) – specialist for industrial automation
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| 2004 |
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Take-over of Sierem (Comines Cedex, Frankreich) – stacking- and storing systems
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| 2004 |
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Ishida concentrates on fresh-products and founds its own subsidiary in Schwaebisch Hall
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| 2003 |
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Foundation of the subsidiary Optima Korea (Seoul, Korea)
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| 2003 |
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Formation of PPS (Schwaebisch Hall, Germany) – cartoning machines for the paper- and cosmetical industry
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| 2003 |
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Foundation of Q-bag (Schwaikheim, Germany) – vertical and horizontal cartoning machines
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| 2002 |
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Foundation of the subsidiary Optima Packaging Machinery (Winchester, Great Britain)
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| 2001 |
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Formation of Medicon (Schwaebisch Hall, Germany) – converting- and packaging machines for medical care products
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| 2001 |
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Foundation of the subsidiary Optima Packaging Machines (Mexico City, Mexico)
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| 2000 |
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New company building for Inova and for Optima do Brasil
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| 2000 |
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Optima Packaging Group is formed
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| 1999 |
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Optima Control Systems gets taken over from Wipotec (Kaiserslautern, Germany)
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| 1999 |
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Optima takes on the Herion-Leibfried range – end packaging sector
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| 1999 |
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Acquisition of Amotek (Bologna, Italy) – packaging machines for paper-hygiene
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| 1998 |
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Acquisition of Kugler (Schwaebisch Hall, Germany) – filling and closing machines for the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry
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| 1997 |
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Foundation of Optima do Brasil (Vinhedo/SP, Brasil)
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| 1996 |
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Foundation of Optima Control Systems (Schwaebisch Hall, Germany)
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| 1996 |
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Inova Pac-Systems takes on the Gilowy range of industrial machines
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| 1995 |
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Foundation of Optima Japan (Kyoto, Japan)
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| 1992 |
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Optima aquires Inova Pac-Systems (Schwaebisch Hall, Germany) – the packaging specialist for pharmaceutical products
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| 1987 |
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The company premises in Schwaebisch Hall were extended
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| 1984 |
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Foundation of the subsidiary Optima Machinery Corporation (Green Bay, WI, USA)
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| 1982 |
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Ishida (Schwaebisch Hall, Germany), the Japanese world market leader for combination weighers became a cooperative partner
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| 1980 |
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Hans Bühler, Dr. Max Bühler's son, started work at the company
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| 1974 |
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The first fully-automatic bag fillling machine for sanitary towels
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| 1972 |
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The company's golden jubilee
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| 1970 |
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The first packaging machine for paper sanitary products was developed
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| 1959 |
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The new company premises were constructed
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| 1950 |
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Dr. Max Bühler expanded the Optima range with packaging machines. Optima employed some 80 people.
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| 1945 |
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During the final month of war large sections of the company's premises were destroyed. Dr. Max Bühler, the son of the founder Otto Bühler, began the rebuilding operation as soon as the war was over
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Until the war years the main focus was on continual improvement of the mechanical, and, later, the electrical process. The first exports to Western and Eastern Europe went very well
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| 1922 |
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Otto Bühler founded Optima Maschinenfabrik (Schwaebisch Hall, Germany) – manufacturing filling scales for foodstuffs and other everyday products |
