Strong basis for growth

“TRUMPF Medical Systems is growing and enjoying increasing success,” says Harald Völker, Head of the TRUMPF Medical Technology Division. “We intend to continue this growth and further expand the Medical Technology Business Divission. To provide a stronger basis for this, our two German locations, in Puchheim near Munich and Saalfeld in Thuringia, are being combined into one entity – TRUMPF Medizin Systeme GmbH + Co. KG.” From now on, the German medical technology headquarters of TRUMPF will be pooled in one company with two plants with registered office in Saalfeld. “At the same time, this merger will enable us to simplify legal and operational matters,” adds Dr. Klaus Frank, Technical Director of TRUMPF Medizin Systeme. “The existence of two separate legal entities meant that some tasks had to be performed in duplicate. From now on procedures will be leaner and faster.”

TRUMPF Medical Systems develops and produces innovative operating room lighting and communication systems, ergonomic ceiling-mounted workplace solutions and flexible operating tables and patient transport systems. Suggestions and experiences from hospitals are constantly channeled into products and help to optimize the solutions provided. This close relationship is an important success factor both for TRUMPF and for its customers.

The origins of the plant in Saalfeld, Thuringa go back to 1911, when Carl Zeiss established the optical factory there. In the 1980s an ophthalmological instruments and electronics division was created, from which the present enterprise evolved. As a result of privatization in 1990, several companies were spun out, and Blancomed GmbH was established in October 1991 to produce medical equipment. In 1992 the company manufactured its first operating tables. TRUMPF took the business over in 1998 and since 2000 it has traded as TRUMPF Medizin Systeme GmbH, currently employing 330 people.

The plant in Puchheim near Munich can be traced back to the firm of Kreuzer GmbH + Co. OHG, established in 1956. In 2001 TRUMPF acquired all the shares in the company and formed TRUMPF KREUZER Medizin Systeme GmbH + Co. KG, which since 2007 has traded as TRUMPF Medizin Systeme GmbH + Co. KG. In Puchheim some 150 employees develop and produce ceiling-mounted supply units and operating room lighting systems. The company introduced the first LED-based surgical light, the iLED, in 2005 and is the market leader in this business segment.

The TRUMPF Medical Technology Division, which employs 565 people, closed the 2009/10 fiscal year on June 30, 2010, with sales of around 150 million euros. The company has subsidiaries in the USA, France, the UK, Austria and China. TRUMPF Medical Systems is represented in more than 70 countries.