Weber invests in a state-of-the-art production facility
Investments are part of everyday life at Weber Maschinenbau. The company has always invested in state-of-the-art production technology and, above all, in automation. A particularly impressive investment was presented and ceremoniously inaugurated at the Neubrandenburg site in August: a new sheet metal manufacturing facility. In the presence of guests from business and politics, Tobias Weber, CEO of Weber Maschinenbau, company founder Günther Weber, Dr. Stefan Rudolph, State Secretary for Economic Affairs for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and Bernd Jaehner, Sales at TRUMPF, officially put the system into operation.
With this new, fully automated system from TRUMPF, the company is able to manufacture stainless steel parts and components that are required for the production of cutting and packaging lines for the food industry in a highly efficient and networked manner. “First and foremost, the investment means a clear added value for our customers, as new production capacities are opened up and we are therefore faster. In addition, the expansion will create new jobs, ”explains Tobias Weber, CEO of Weber Maschinenbau. The lasering and bending of stainless steel parts in particular represented a bottleneck in the production process in the past. Further growth and higher capacities were therefore not possible. With the new laser bending automation, this bottleneck is solved and the following processing steps can be supplied with more parts. This leads to securing the location, growth and more jobs in further processes. The company has always relied on a high level of vertical integration. "For me, development and production belong closely together," says Weber, who is the second generation to run the family business.
Thanks to the high degree of automation and comprehensive networking of the individual machines, the system should produce around the clock, seven days a week, which leads to a reduction in laser downtimes by 30% and a reduction in the bending process time by 40%. The new sheet metal automation cost around EUR 3,4 million. The investment was subsidized with EUR 800.000 in funding from the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Photo from left: Tobias Weber, Günther Weber, Dr. Stefan Rudolph, Bernd Jaehner
On the Weber Group
From weight-accurate cutting to precise insertion and packaging of sausage, meat and cheese: Weber Maschinenbau is one of the leading system providers for slicing applications as well as the automation and packaging of fresh produce. The company's core goal is to make life easier for customers by providing outstanding, personalized solutions and enabling them to run their systems optimally throughout their lifecycle.
Today around 1.500 employees at 22 locations in 18 nations are employed by Weber Maschinenbau and contribute to the success of the Weber Group every day with commitment and passion. Weber Maschinenbau has been based in Neubrandenburg since 2000. The signs point to growth from the start: initially with 39 employees, around 450 employees now work at the Neubrandenburg and Groß Nemerow locations, with Neubrandenburg being the largest of the five exclusively German production locations today. The company is still family-owned to this day and is managed as CEO by Tobias Weber, the eldest son of the company's founder, Günther Weber.
