1924
From cooperation to conglomerate: Enzinger and the Unionwerke merge to form Enzinger-Union-Werke AG based in Mannheim.
1926
The cold sterile filling of biologically sensitive beverages such as wine, fruit juice and beer is made possible by the Seitz-Werke with the launch of its innovative cold sterile filling process.
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1929
Company founder Theobald Friedrich Seitz dies.
1934
Seitz sheet filters tour the globe: its Ariston and Zenit filters are sold the world over. They are joined two years later by the world's first triple-chamber, counter-pressure filler Rola.
1936
The company acquires Schäffler. The Saxo bottle washing machine now also becomes part of the Enzinger-Union-Werke product range.
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1937
A number of new products go public: Enzinger introduces a multiple room bottle filler, the Riwella bottle washing machine, pasteurization equipment and various labeling machines to an expert audience.
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1939
Georg Heinrich Seitz, the brother of company founder Theobald, dies. Just one year previously he celebrated the company’s 50th anniversary.
1944
Impact of the Second World War: the factories in Mannheim and Berlin are destroyed in air raids. A year later the plant in Worms-Pfeddersheim is dismantled.
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1951
Innovation: Seitz constructs the first single-chamber vacuum filler in Europe.
1953
New bottle washing machine goes into business: Enzinger delivers the first Sterila bottle washer. Originally designed for the milk industry, it is later also used in breweries.
1957
Worldwide prestige: Enzinger adds the Polyp bottle crater and decrater to its machine portfolio.
1959
Global novelty: Seitz launches its first filling machine for non-returnable packaging which captures the market.
1963
From a single mold: the Seitz-Werke produces and sells the first filter made entirely of stainless steel.
1966
Bigger company, wider product range: Enzinger acquires Noll Maschinenfabrik in Minden and now also markets the latter’s can fillers and premix systems. The company now owns five factories.
1967
World innovation from Seitz: the company commissions the Seitz Orion 100, the first high-performance sheet and precoat filter for the beverage industry.
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1967
New developments from Enzinger: it designs a new gap filter and supplies the first Monarch palletizing machine engineered for the beverage industry.