ing After almost 30 years of outstanding leadership, we are bidding farewell to our esteemed company founder and managing partner Thomas Siebenhaar. He will enter his well-deserved retirement on March 31, 2024.
Together with our founder and partner Thomas Möckl, he has created SECO Sensor Consult, a company full of innovation, growth and vision. We value him as a confident managing director as well as a respectful colleague and mentor in all matters relating to ultrasound technology and the secrets of chemistry. His door was always open for conversation, advice and support, and his legacy will live on in our company. For his retirement, we wish Thomas Siebenhaar happiness and health, much joy and new adventures with family and friends.
The company will be managed in future by Eugen Gergert. He was appointed to the management board in October 2016 and has been successfully steering SECO Sensor Consult towards the future ever since.
f.l.: Thomas Siebenhaar, Thomas Möckl, Eugen Gergert at a company party
How did SECO come to Coburg?
We are celebrating 25 years of SECO Sensor Consult. In October 1996, physicist Thomas Möckl and graduate engineer Thomas Siebenhaar jointly decided to found a company for ultrasonic transducers in Coburg, Upper Franconia. The SECO Sensor Consult GmbH adventure began with just one employee. At the beginning the company had its headquarters in a small 50 m² plot at the technology centre.
The demand for handmade ultrasonic transducers of the highest quality was high from the very beginning. In order to meet the requirements of our first customers, we produced the fitting material ourselves right from the start and according to our own recipe. Back then, this was still done in the back room of Mr Siebenhaar’s private garage.
Just one year after the company was founded, the number of employees had doubled and turnover had increased twenty-fold. Since then, the signs have been pointing to growth. During the global economic crisis in 2008, we also had to contend with losses in terms of staff and turnover. Fortunately, we recovered quickly the following year.
2004 we constructed our second site in Küps (in the district of Kronach). Parallel we completely renovated an old industrial building in Coburg. We customised the 3,000 m² of space precisely to the needs of our production. Our company headquarters have been located here since the move in 2014. We will be extending a previously unused part of the building in 2022, further increasing the usable space.