Georg Utz Holding AG
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| public limited company | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Sale, develop and produce of reusable transport packaging |
| Founded 📆 | 1947 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Georg Utz Holding AG, Augraben 2-4, Bremgarten , Switzerland |
Number of locations | 8 production sites |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Marc Schürmann, CEO Bernhard Merki, Chairman of the Board of Directors |
| Revenue🤑 | 350 Mio CHF (2024) |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 1400 (2024) |
| 🌐 Website | [www.utzgroup.com] |
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The Utz Group (parent company: Georg Utz Holding AG)[1], based in Bremgarten, Aargau, is an internationally active Swiss group of companies specializing in the manufacture of containers for storage and goods transport, as well as workpiece carriers and pallets made from recyclable plastic.
The company founder
The Utz Group takes its name from the company's founder, Georg Utz (1916–1988), who established a toolmaking business in the Höngg district of Zurich in 1947. By 1953, he had already relocated the company, which now had 16 employees, to Bremgarten, where it began series production of zigzag devices for sewing machines.
Company history
- Georg Utz AG was converted into a public limited company in 1955. Although toolmaking was still the main focus of production, the first injection molding machine was purchased in 1958. By 1960, the ratio had reversed: plastic storage and transport containers were now mainly manufactured using injection molding. Over the next seven years, the production facilities were expanded and the machine park was increased to 30 injection molding machines.
- In 1973, the Georg Utz AG halls housed the largest injection molding machine manufactured in Europe at the time, with a clamping force of 3,000 tons, for the production of pallets and large-capacity plastic containers.
- From the outset, the company has focused on the sustainable use of resources and integrated recycling into its strategy. In order to be able to process recyclable plastics, a recycling plant was built in 1977, where returned containers are processed into granulate.
- In 1985, production began using the thermoforming process. This is used to manufacture mostly customer-specific workpiece carriers, in whose nests customer-specific components can be precisely accommodated.
- Georg Utz AG was first ISO certified in 1987.
- After its subsidiary Georg Utz GmbH was founded in Germany in 1971[2], the company began expanding internationally in the 1990s, opening further subsidiaries in the UK, France, and Poland, followed by the US and China in the 2000s.
- In 2000, production of large parts was expanded.[3]
Corporate Structure
Georg Utz Holding AG[4], founded in 1995, comprises the following companies:
- Georg Utz AG[1] (founded 1947, Bremgarten, Switzerland)
- Georg Utz GmbH[2] (founded 1971, Schuettorf, Germany)
- George Utz Ltd[5] (founded 1990, Alfreton, United Kingdom)
- Georg Utz Sarl[6] founded. 1992, Bressolles, since 2020 in Saint-Vulbas, France)
- Pooltec AG[7] (founded 1996, Bremgarten, Switzerland, Service for pooling of reusable totes)
- Georg Utz Sp.z o.o. (founded 1997, Kąty Wrocławskie, Poland)
- Georg Utz Inc[8]. (founded 2003, Edinburgh IN, USA)
- Georg Utz Materials Handling (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. (founded 2005, Suzhou, China)
- Georg Utz de México S. de R.L. de C.V. (founded. 2017, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico)
Products
The Utz Group develops and manufactures reusable transport packaging for the automotive, intralogistics, retail, and pharmaceutical/medtech industries. The focus is on customized solutions.
Thermoforming
- Workpiece carriers (thermoformed load carriers that hold products precisely in place)
Injection Molding
- Stackable containers (RAKO, EUROTEC, KLT, SILAFIX)
- Space-saving containers (folding and collapsible boxes, rotary stackable and nestable containers)
- Pallets (half, Euro, or ISO pallets)
- Pallet containers (large-capacity containers based on ISO dimensions PALOXEN, folding containers KLAPA and VDA-GLT)
- Transport roller
- Special application systems
- Hazardous goods containers GGVSEB (containers approved for the transport of hazardous goods)
- Electrically conductive products ESD (for the electronics industry)
- Customized containers (e.g., postal containers, special dimensions, etc.)
- Transport units (combinations of pallets, containers, workpiece carriers, and covers)
Utz is one of the few manufacturers of plastic load carriers that produces its products using thermoforming and injection molding processes.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 AG, Powerneting. "Georg Utz AG". Handelsregisteramt des Kantons Aargau. Archived from the original on 2018-09-17. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Registerinformationen". www.unternehmensregister.de. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
- ↑ Hürlimann, Esther (01.012023). Ein Ziel, ein Wille, ein Weg: Unternehmen und Familie – eine Beziehungsgeschichte. Zum 75-jährigen Bestehen der Utz Gruppe (in German) (1st ed.). Vienna, Austria: Böhlau Verlag (published 14th August 2023). ISBN 978-3-205-21803-6. Check date values in:
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- ↑ Handelsregister (23.08.1955). "Auszug Handelsregister Kanton Aargau". Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ "GEORGE UTZ LIMITED overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 2025-11-18.
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