A clear objective, a joint signature.
Since the company founding, Wirthwein Medical has stood for an open, future-oriented family company with innovation strength and consistent quality orientation. It is our clear objective, jointly with our more than 330 employees, to continue on this path and to establish ourselves in the next ten years as quality leader for highly complex clean room products in the global market. Thus, we are following the example of the company founder, Fritz Albert Riegler, who laid the foundation more than 75 years ago with a lot of entrepreneurial courage and world view for our company success today.
Thomas Kraus, Holm Riepenhausen and Dr. Ralf Zander
The board members of the Wirthwein Group
Dr. Ralf Zander has been a member of the Executive Board since 1st July 2020 and Spokesman of the Executive Board since 1st May 2024. Holm Riepenhausen joined the Management Board on 1st January 2021. Thomas Kraus was added to the Executive Board as of 1st January 2022. The Members of the Board are held responsible for the corporate management, shape the corporate strategy and decide upon fundamental issues of business policy.
The economic engineer Dr. Ralf Zander is responsible for the "Finances" division in addition to his role as Spokesman of the Management Board. Graduate engineer Holm Riepenhausen is in charge of the "Technology" division. Graduate engineer Thomas Kraus completes the trio as Chief Sales Officer.
Dr. Thomas Jakob
Member of the board, Medical Technology Business Unit Director
Dr. Thomas Jakob is Medical Technology Business Unit Director at Wirthwein with overall responsibility for the Wirthwein Medical subsidiary. Born in Upper Franconia, with a doctorate in chemistry and management training, he has been a member of the board since 2016. His targets: to promote the internationalization and increase the manufacturing depth.
Thorsten Hassenzahl
Member of the board, Technical Director
Thorsten Hassenzahl has been Technical Director of our three sites in Mühltal and Ober-Ramstadt since 2009. Born in Jugenheim and passionate plastics engineer, he joined our company as a project manager immediately after his academic beginnings in 1998. He was appointed as authorized signatory in 2011.
Thorsten Kellner
Member of the Executive Board, Head of Development and Project Management
Mr. Kellner has been Head of Development and Project Management at Wirthwein Medical since 2019. The graduate engineer studied at the University of Bayreuth in the field of materials science with a focus on polymers and supplemented his technical studies with a management degree at the Business School in St. Gallen. His focus is on further strengthening customer orientation, implementing new technologies, strategic growth and driving forward the further internationalization of the business divisions. He was appointed authorized signatory in 2023.
Growth due to quality, innovation and specialization.
Our joint strategy
As regionally connected family company, we are continuing our relevant internationalization course jointly with our customers, employees and suppliers. In doing so, we are focusing on healthy growth, based on our strengths as system supplier and ideas solver. Due to the unique combination of plastic technologies, industry experience and know-how, we have developed a special position in the market that we would like to continuously expand. In doing so, we follow our global customers where a high quality plastic product is always in demand.