ALL YOU NEED
Harro Höfliger
ALL YOU NEED
This is the mission of Harro Höfliger. It is the promise to our customers and forms the framework for our work, which is oriented to their needs and requirements. Against this backdrop, we offer more than just high-tech mechanical engineering. More than production and packaging systems across all industrialization stages and services throughout the machine lifecycle. We design and realize highly specialized process solutions for pharmaceutical and medical technology companies worldwide, as well as for consumer and home care products from renowned brands.
Our special strength? ALL YOU NEED. We support our customers with our expertise from the initial idea to the successful production launch and beyond. We develop innovative solutions for manufacturing and packaging equally innovative products and pharmaceutical forms. We design large-scale systems like turnkey lines. We set standards on a small scale, for example, in micro-dosing powders and intricate assembly processes. Either way, with quality “made by Harro”.
How is our success measured? By the satisfaction of our customers and consistently successful business development. For example, with an operating revenue of 420 million euros in 2024. Or by an export share exceeding 80 percent. Harro Höfliger's machines are shipped worldwide, with about half exported outside Europe. And: To our 2,200+ employees at our development and production sites in the Greater Stuttgart area, as well as at our international subsidiaries and representatives.
Networked competencies
Our goal is to cover our customers’ entire value chain with technologically leading, high-quality solutions. To enable us to achieve this comprehensively, we rely on a network of competent partners. That’s how we enhance our core competencies through technology investments, close cooperation with strategic partners and our membership in professional associations such as ‘Packaging Valley’. We collaborate with universities, research institutions, and companies from industry and technology, contributing our expertise to associations and federations.
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History
The legendary ‘garage’
From the garage startup to a global player, from a one-man business to an internationally successful technology leader in production and packaging systems: Our success story also started small and traditional, gaining significant momentum over the decades. It all started in 1975 with Harro Höfliger and his experience in building packaging machines. With the bold and smart decision to become self-employed in refurbishing used cartoning machines. Many more groundbreaking decisions were to follow – recognizing and seizing market opportunities, expanding into new business areas with innovation potential: What he consistently exemplified, we continue just as consistently – into anniversary year 2025 and far beyond.
Business developed well, and the numbers added up: The leap into self-employment that Harro Höfliger took in 1975, initially by refurbishing used cartoning machines, was exactly the right decision.
A sight to behold: The first trade show appearance was at interpack 1978 in Düsseldorf. Here, Harro Höfliger presented its portfolio of in-house developments, including not only packaging machines but also filling and capsule technology.
Diversification in the 1980s: Alongside complete packaging lines for the food industry, Harro Höfliger developed innovative systems for the growing pharmaceutical market.
In 1990, the company generated more in the pharmaceutical than in the food sector. The portfolio included capsule filling and weighing machines, as well as web processing machines for producing wound dressings and transdermal patches containing API.
New management structure following the death of Marianne Höfliger in 2006: The Management Board, comprising CEO Thomas Weller, CFO Markus Höfliger, and CTO Peter Claußnitzer, was strengthened in 2008 with the arrival of CHRO Uwe Amann, and Heinrich Havenstein responsible for production.
Continuous growth: Besides new buildings in Allmersbach im Tal, Harro Höfliger set up production sites in Backnang and Aspach, as well as a plant in Satteldorf in 2005 for packaging and final packing machines.
“From Lab to Production”: With this holistic approach, customers receive customized, scalable technology for every stage of industrialization and across their entire value chain.
In 2018, Harro Höfliger stepped down from his position as Senior Director and became Chairman of the newly established Supervisory Board. Manfred Reiser, a member of the Management Board until the end of 2017, retired. Harro Höfliger died in May 2019 at the age of 82. His son Markus Höfliger took over as Chairman of the Supervisory Board.
Room for further growth: In 2022, Harro Höfliger acquired existing structures in Schlierbach and Oppenweiler, establishing Schlierbach as a technology center.
2025. 50 years of Harro Höfliger. And plenty of reasons to celebrate this special milestone. More to come ...
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Sustainability & Compliance
Thinking long-term, acting responsibly and in compliance with the law: Sustainability and compliance go hand in hand at Harro Höfliger.
Social commitment
As a family business, we understand what family means: Cohesion and support. We provide this support at all our locations.
Supervisory Board and Management Board
The guiding principle for responsible corporate governance: “We are and remain: A sustainable family-run company fit for the future – attractive for employees and partners alike.”
