MK Versuchsanlagen wins the Gießen-Friedberg Chamber of Industry and Commerce’s Business Award 2020

Innovations from the Vogelsberg

For years now, the Gießen-Friedberg Chamber of Industry and Commerce has been honouring people and companies whose commitment to a strong economic future for the local region with the Enterprise Award. In 2020, MK Versuchsanlagen is one of the companies honoured. “I am very pleased to receive this award, which is above all a recognition of the successful work and creative output of our employees,” said company founder Michael Keil at the award ceremony. For Corona’s sake, the award ceremony was held virtually.

World market leader and meanwhile one of the largest employers in the Vogelsberg region

“We are always amazed at what family businesses in our chamber district achieve,” emphasised IHK President Rainer Schwarz in his laudation of MK Versuchsanlagen und Laborbedarf e.K. in Muecke. “Clean rooms from the Vogelsberg, installed in containers, cross the Arctic and Antarctic with the research ship ‘Polarstern’ and ensure the purity of the water samples collected,” he said, explaining the unique selling point of the innovative company. Founded in 1988 as a one-man operation by Michael Keil, the company now has around 160 employees and is one of the largest employers in the Vogelsberg region. The clean rooms developed by MK Versuchsanlagen offer a completely metal-free working environment so that, for example, samples taken in the laboratory are not contaminated.

As a second mainstay, the company has developed glove testing systems for the pharmaceutical industry that make it possible to test 100 or more gloves for damage directly in production in a very short time. Thanks to its own software and electronics development, MK Versuchsanlagen achieves a production depth of up to 95 per cent. So many years of in-house know-how have made the company the world market leader in the glove testing segment. To keep the level of innovation high at all times, the special equipment manufacturer cooperates with the regional universities of Justus Liebig University in Gießen, the Technical University of Central Hesse and the Philipps University in Marburg. The company is currently expanding its site in Muecke. New administrative and production facilities are being built on a further 2,000 square metres.

Representing all the other committed employees, the longest-serving Gertraud Volz, who has been with the company since January 2006, was honoured as a representative. With her calm and even-tempered manner, she has become a pillar of the company and, like numerous other employees from the region, has contributed significantly to the success of MK Versuchsanlagen today.

Curtain up for innovative companies

You can find the presentation of the IHK’s business award at
https://www.giessen-friedberg.ihk.de/

Click here to go directly to the virtual stage of the Giessen City Theatre for the award ceremony:
https://vtc.mediatools.tv/de/vt/rehrzJgjK1/d/148882