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History
Brief history of Aesus Aesus Systems was founded in 2003 and was the amalgamation of D. L. Tech Inc (founded in 1995) and (EDT founded in 1997). The founding partners of Aesus were previously partners or employees in Kalish (founded in 1956) and NJM-CLI (NJM-CLI was founded in 1972 by an ex-Kalish employee). Most of the employees of
Aesus have stemmed from the above companies, and have considerable
experience in packaging, sleeving and labelling machinery. At its
zenith Kalish was one of the premier pharmaceutical and cosmetic
packaging machine manufacturers in
Aesus key personnel. Graham Lewis -- Chairman 1973 to 1995, Kalish packaging machinery, ultimately President and CEO and Majority Shareholder. In 1995 Graham sold Kalish to DT industries. 1995 to 2000 DT Industries, ultimately President of packaging group of nine companies, including Lakso, Merrill, Stokes, Scheu & Kniss, Sencorp, Armac, Kalish, Swiftpack, King, and Chief Technical Officer and Member of Board of Directors of the 18 DTI Companies with sales over $500 Million. 2003, founded Aesus systems, amalgamating EDT (Encore Design Technologies), primarily shrink labelling) and D. L. Tech Inc (primarily pressure sensitive labelling) Daniel LaChapelle --
President and CEO 1983 to 1995, NJM-CLI ultimately service manager. 1995 founded D. L. Tech Inc, merged with Aesus in 2003. Steve Mons -- Vice
President Sales. 1990 to 1997 Kalish Machinery then DT Kalish, ultimately area sales manager. 1997 founding partner of EDT, merged with Aesus in 2003. Samantha Lewis -- Vice
President Operations 1997 – 2003 Military and then Lieutenant in Canadian Naval reserves, BSc Ottawa, and MBA Missouri State University. 2003 Commenced with Aesus Systems.
History of Herma ....over 100 Years in the making.
Aesus is a stocking distributer of Herma. Herma is the Largest Labelling machine manufacturer in the world, and as such they invest more in just R&D than some competitors' complete sales revenue.
The history of every company is characterised by a few
outstanding personalities. The history of HERMA covers the
exciting story of this family-owned company. It starts in 1906
with the founder Heinrich Hermann and his family, describing his
motivation to manufacture labels and his many innovative ideas
for self-adhesive products.
The life of Heinrich Hermann (1870 - 1939) Heinrich Hermann, born in Stuttgart in 1870, founder of HERMA, father and devout Christian, was an entrepreneur with heart and soul. In 1906 Heinrich Hermann took the jump into self-employment. With a small print shop in Stuttgart-Wangen Heinrich Hermann laid the foundation stone for HERMA. War and reconstruction 1915 was the beginning of the hardest period in Heinrich Hermann's life. At the beginning of the First World War the company suffered considerable losses in sales. Heinrich Hermann was drafted into military service. His wife Christine took over the management of the company. Always with the support of her husband Heinrich who constantly guided operations from afar and on visits home. In 1918 Heinrich Hermann coordinated the takeover of the Adolph Krüger company whilst still a soldier in the war. He managed to keep the company despite the difficult circumstances. "The evil war is over." The times of reconstruction, characterised by price rises and wage increases. Heinrich Hermann reorganised his company. The sailing ship signet was also developed over the course this reorganisation in order to reinforce the brand concept. Heinrich Hermann expanded the company, planned with foresight and demonstrated his innovative flair with continuous product developments even in the early 1920s. He survived the difficult years of high inflation, whilst also planning and implementing the construction of a new building in Stuttgart-Wangen. Even from 1929 to 1932 business was good in spite of the generally poor economic climate worldwide with 6 million unemployed in Germany. Heinrich Hermann continued to manage HERMA up to a few weeks before his death in 1939. In July 1929 HERMA obtained a patent for photo corners called "Favorit". Nobody had any idea then of the great significance this would have for the company. The commissioning of the first production machine thus heralded the start of the photo corner's triumphant campaign all over the world. Photo corners the world over The years of the Second World War fortunately spared the machines and raw materials. After the war there were material acquisition problems. Barter transactions were made, for example, with the French occupation zone, when "warehouse goods to a value of 7,200 Reichsmarks were exchanged for four tons of paper for photo corner." In 1954 self-adhesive photo corners could be manufactured thanks to the development of adhesive gum in the HERMA laboratories. Sold under the brand name Transparol, these soon became a great sales success in Germany, the Benelux countries, Spain, Italy and Austria. Today HERMA photo corners still bear the name Transparol and are part of the HERMA range of mounting aids. HERMA's fiftieth anniversary was celebrated in 1956. In 1961 HERMA already had 610 employees. With the continuous expansion of capacity the number of employees grew to over 1,000 by 1970. The growth in the number of employees also called for an increase in working space. In 1950 HERMA completed a new factory building with 1,000 square metres. In 1959 the company purchased two hectares of building land in Bonlanden auf den Fildern and in 1961 the topping out ceremony was held for the new factory with 3,700 square metres of floor space. In 1965 HERMA opened a new production plant in Deizisau and already started planning Bonlanden II where new land had been purchased in Bonladen. Building work was started in 1972. HERMA worldwide HERMA is now internationally recognised with its wealth of know-how. Out of the small workshop in Stuttgart has grown a leading edge specialist for self-adhesive technology.
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The History of
Aesus and Herma
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