Experience and success

In the span of our company’s 90 and more years’ tradition, the search for intelligent and innovative solutions was always the focal point of business activities – from suction units for the joinery business in the foundation years, through to the present day, undertaking the overall responsibility for the planning and construction of turnkey, high-tech production plants.

The company’s history is a success story, achieved through concentration on key competencies, a reasoned growth policy and conquest of new business fields in response to the challenges and chances of a highly dynamic market.

M+W Zander today, with a workforce of 8,000 employees generating an annual turnover of more than 2 billion euro, has long been a global player.
 

The outstanding milestones

1912 Foundation of the firm Meissner+Wurst in Stuttgart as an engineering factory and manufacturer of wood chip extraction systems for the joinery business.		1950 Foundation of the firm Zander in Nuremberg, which conceived and constructed heating and ventilation systems.		1966 Meissner+Wurst entered into the business of clean room technology as a pioneer in this field.
1989 First step towards being a global player with the construction of a semiconductor factory in Taiwan.		1992 First project in Singapore – a wafer factory for TECH.		1994 Jenoptik take over the firm Meissner+Wurst
1998 Merger of Meissner+Wurst with Zander to form M+W Zander. The company could forthwith tender the entire value chain for consulting, planning, construction and operation of high-tech production plants.		1998 Jenoptik AG is listed on the stock market in Frankfurt.		2001 Takeover of Knight Advanced Technology, Inc. With the acquisition of this specialist company for architectural and engineering services, M+W Zander reinforces its’ presence on the US market.
2001 M+W Zander acquires a majority of stock in Lang und Peitler Automation GmbH, located in Ludwigshafen, Germany. In 2002 it becomes sole stockholder.		2002 On merging with D.I.B., M+W Zander becomes one of the leading independent facility management providers in Europe.		2002 Partial takeover of TKT Krantz, to facilitate the efficient supplementation of the service range in structural technology and its’ products.
2003 Spin-off of the internal IT division and startup of Teraport GmbH.		2004 Facility Engineering for the electronics industry is clustered in Singapore.		2005 Acquisition of majority holding in IT services provider Caatoosee AG.
2006 Investment group Springwater Capital takes over shares from Jenoptik AG in M+W Zander Group.		2007 Victory Industrie- beteiligung AG takes over the complete M+W Zander Group.

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