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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1967

New developments from Enzinger: it designs a new gap filter and supplies the first Monarch palletizing machine engineered for the beverage industry.