Spang & Brands Expands its Management Team

Vor dem neuen Technologiezentrum: v.l.n.r.: Alexander März, Friedrich Echterdiek, Jürgen Mader (Foto: Thomas Behne) / In front of the new technology center: l.t.r.: Alexander März, Friedrich Echterdiek, Jürgen Mader (Photo: Thomas Behne)

Effective July 10th, 2017, Jürgen Mader and Alexander März have been appointed managing directors of Spang & Brands GmbH – kunststofftechnik für die medizin – Friedrichsdorf, Germany. Jürgen Mader, who joined the company in 1980, was previously in charge of development and production. Alexander März joined Spang & Brands in 2014 and managed the mould construction department. From now on, both managing directors will be responsible for technology at Spang & Brands.

During its 30 years of company history as a medical device provider, Spang & Brands has experienced continuous growth. Today, the company employs some 145 experts, including 20 temporary workers, in three shifts. “Due to the permanently expanding business volume over the last years, it was a diligent step to re-structure the company with a view to its future development. The future planning of our company – pushing new product developments, introducing new technical procedures, optimizing production processes continuously, and creating the basis for new business – is now distributed across the shoulders of the wider management team. Consequently, we assign high priority to the significance and function of our new technology center, which we inaugurated less than two years ago”, says Friedrich Echterdiek, Spang & Brand’s CEO.

Along the complete value-added chain of a medical device specialist, Spang & Brands is able to offer the entire diversity of products optimized in plastics – thanks to its new technology center, state-of-the-art R&D equipment, modern mould construction, as well as cleanrooms of various classes. The machine park includes some 65 injection moulding machines, over 30 of which are all-electric including several electric multi-component units. Special plastics compounds, such as TPU, TPE, and TPV, resomere materials or polylactides are being processed. Fully automated and/or manual assembly and packaging of parts and components take place in cleanrooms of various classifications – from pre-production to just-in-time batch sizes, from small series to batches of several million units.