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History of the company Benz & Hilgers GmbH

1912
Designer Johannes Benz and engineer Wilhelm Hilgers founded in Düsseldorf their company Benz & Hilgers

1913
The first butter and margarine filling and wrapping machine was delivered

1923
The company site at Münsterstrasse/Düsseldorf was extended

1944
Company site and building were almost completely destroyed

1948
The company?s activities were resumed

1962
The family owned company was sold to Rheinmetall AG

1982
Benz & Hilgers GmbH were incorporated into the Jagenberg group

1993
The activities of the Benz & Hilgers GmbH and the GASTI Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH - up to this date located in Schwäbisch Hall and also belonging to the Jagenberg group - were concentrated in Neuss, both BENHIL and GASTI machines from this date on being manufactured in Neuss.

1998
The BENHIL-GASTI Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH was formed by merging of the Benz & Hilgers GmbH with the GASTI Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH.

2000
Jagenberg AG sells BENHIL-GASTI to the IWKA AG where it is integrated into the Pacunion (packaging technology division).

2001
BENHIL-GASTI were separated, the activities to be continued under the two companies Benz & Hilgers GmbH and GASTI Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH. GASTI machines are once again manufactured in Schwäbisch Hall.

2005
All business activities of the ECOPACK Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH were taken over by Benz & Hilgers GmbH, the ECOPACK machines from now on being one further range within the BENHIL packaging machinery program.

2007
IWKA AG sells their packaging division to Odewald & Compagnie – an investment company in Berlin.
OYSTAR.The Process & Packaging Group is the new name for this division formerly known as IWKA Packaging.

  • Benz & Hilgers GmbH
  • Blindeisenweg 17
  • 41468 Neuss
  • Germany
  • T +49 2131 9955 33
  • F +49 2131 9300 55
  • sales@oystar.benhil.de