The Max Aich­er Foun­da­tion cov­ers a wide spec­trum of indus­tri­al and com­mer­cial activ­i­ties, but is best known as a lead­ing steel com­pa­ny and sup­pli­er to the auto­mo­tive and build­ing indus­tries. Our more than 4,200 employ­ees, locat­ed in 18 coun­tries, are work­ing with pas­sion to uti­lize their tech­no­log­i­cal know-how to pro­duce high-qual­i­ty prod­ucts, intel­li­gent indus­tri­al process­es, inno­v­a­tive solu­tions and cus­tomer ori­en­tat­ed ser­vices. The qual­i­fi­ca­tions and com­mit­ment of our staff is the basis for our suc­cess. With our prod­ucts, we wish to be the world­wide pre­ferred part­ner for our cus­tomers. Our spe­cif­ic areas of exper­tise include: Steel and steel pro­duc­tion, envi­ron­ment & recy­cling, real estate prop­er­ties & projects, build­ing & con­struc­tion, leisure & tourism. We are con­tin­u­ous­ly expand­ing the scope of busi­ness activ­i­ties and enhanc­ing our exper­tise. Each of our com­pa­nies enjoys a high degree of auton­o­my which enables them to react rapid­ly to chang­ing mar­ket and tech­ni­cal require­ments, there­by ensur­ing our sus­tain­able suc­cess. As a fam­i­ly owned com­pa­ny, we stand for sus­tain­abil­i­ty and sta­bil­i­ty whilst simul­ta­ne­ous­ly embrac­ing strate­gic devel­op­ments for the future..

The fam­i­ly-owned Hirschvo­gel Auto­mo­tive Group, head­quar­tered in Den­klin­gen near­by Munich, Ger­many, is among the world’s largest auto­mo­tive sup­pli­ers in the area of sophis­ti­cat­ed func­tion­al com­po­nents. Our cus­tomers include all renowned auto­mo­tive man­u­fac­tur­ers and sup­pli­ers world­wide. The con­sol­i­dat­ed sales of the Group with plants in Ger­many, USA, Chi­na, India, Poland, and Mex­i­co exceed­ed one bil­lion euros in 2016. The num­ber of employ­ees was about 5,000. These fig­ures speak for them­selves – and for the Hirschvo­gel Auto­mo­tive Group.​ Cer­avis is the strate­gic invest­ment arm of the same group of share­hold­ers who also own the Hirschvo­gel Auto­mo­tive Group. Cer­avis not only invests in cut­ting-edge tech­nolo­gies, more specif­i­cal­ly indus­tri­al tech­nolo­gies, but also devel­ops new busi­ness mod­els by set­ting up and offer­ing start­up incu­ba­tion and accel­er­a­tion pro­grams.

HOERBIGER is active through­out the world in the oil, gas, and process indus­tries, in the auto­mo­tive indus­try, and in safe­ty solu­tions. In 2018, its 7,000 employ­ees achieved sales of 1.222 bil­lion euros in 110 loca­tions and 48 coun­tries. Our prod­ucts and ser­vices are used in rec­i­p­ro­cat­ing com­pres­sors, gas flow con­trol units, vehi­cle trans­mis­sions, gas-pow­ered engines, auto­mo­bile hydraulics, and com­pre­hen­sive explo­sion pro­tec­tion solu­tions. It is our shared ambi­tion to deliv­er excel­lence for our cus­tomers. As a result, we cre­ate an envi­ron­ment which allows our employ­ees to devel­op their full poten­tial and demon­strate ini­tia­tive: peo­ple and suc­cess go hand in hand at HOERBIGER.