Burkhardt celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2011 (1861 - 2011).

View of the company in 1900

The company's founder August Hensel

Dipl.-Ing. Otto Wilhelm Burkhardt
(1891 – 1965)

Dr. Otto Burkhardt (1922 – 2010)

Hans Hensel is congratulated on the sale of the company to Otto W. Burkhardt, 1917

Machine project from 1930 for export to then Czechoslovakia

View of the foundry GUSS+PLUS at Justus-Liebig-Str. 11 in 1940

Design office in 1950

ebu C-frame presses being mass-produced in 1965 at a rate of up to 70 machines a month

Tapping at the cupola furnace in 1968

Tapping, modern mid-frequency furnace with 2000 kW power input, 2001

Design office today

The managing directors in 2011, from left:
Dipl.-Kfm. Alexander Burkhardt
and Jörg Berger

The Jobstar Prize of Nuremberg Metropolitan Region is awarded.

Left to right: training manager Wolfgang Kunze, Lord Mayor of Bayreuth, Dr. Michael Hohl,
Managing Director Alexander Burkhardt,
Jörg Hahn of the Regional Marketing Association of Nuremberg Metropolitan Region,
Managing Director Jörg Berger,
2007

Sand treatment plant with silo tower, 2008, the new emblem of the foundry GUSS+PLUS

New apprentices are welcomed, 2009

International trade fair in Hanover, 2010

CSA 598 fully-automated CNC sawing plant with patented vacuum technology

ebu STA automatic punching machine with strip feeder

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Learn more about Burkhardt history and refer to our new brochure "150 years of Burkhardt"