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Opening photo: EMPTMEYER workers on the factory building in Bad Essen, Lower Saxonia, Germany.
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JÜRGEN EMPTMEYER: custom made hanging and masking solutions for industrial coating Alessia Venturi ipcm®
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ince 1987, JÜRGEN EMPTMEYER GmbH (Ref. opening photo) is a leading company in hanging and masking solutions in the field of industrial surface technology. Its services include consulting, design and construction stages, up to the delivery of customized systems and after-sales services. The company can guarantee an easy order process as well as an on schedule delivery. ipcm® interviewed Katharina Emptmeyer (Fig. 1), Business Development, to offer an insight about the history of the company, their markets and innovative ideas. ipcm: “Can you please briefly outline the history of JÜRGEN EMPTMEYER company and its current structure?” Emptmeyer: “For more than a quarter of a century JÜRGEN EMPTMEYER has offered specialized knowledge on bending technology. Like many
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other midsized German companies, our company history started from a cellar. My father´s first contact, Jürgen Emptmeyer (Fig. 2), with powder coating plants was as a 19 year old trainee whose boss in need of hooks challenged him to provide a mass production solution and that´s when a manual bending machine ended up being installed in the cellar of our family house. The powder coating technique at that time was still quite innovative but the volumes where very fast growing”. “In 2014, JÜRGEN EMPTMEYER opened the door for the next generation and so I started to promote our products to our customers in Switzerland. Today our main objective is to develop our business in the Eastern and Southern European markets. Since the beginning of 2017, Mr. Bernd Kulgemeyer (Fig. 3) is officially CEO of JÜRGEN EMPTMEYER in Germany and is ambitious in offering our clients a convenient hanging and masking