Hugo Beck, a manufacturer of horizontal packaging machines, has announced the appointment of Simon Beck and Jonas Beck as Managing Directors. As grandsons of company founder Hugo Beck, they represent the continued leadership of the family business in its third generation.
The appointments follow the departure of Timo Kollmann as Managing Director who is taking on a new professional opportunity after 20 years with Hugo Beck. During his tenure, he played a key role in driving innovation, strengthening the company’s market position, and contributing to its overall development.
Founded in 1955 as a modest mechanical workshop in Dettingen/Erms, Germany, the company initially focused on producing turned parts before its founder launched the first film packaging machines in 1962. In 1976, it introduced its first automated horizontal poly-bag machine—cementing its role as a pioneer in horizontal packaging technology. Through the 1980s and ’90s, the firm expanded globally, adopting servo drive systems in 1996 to become a recognized technological leader and exporting half of its output by 1990. Over the decades, it broadened its portfolio—adding bundle-wrappers, flowpack systems, paper-packaging solutions, high-speed mailing machines, and robotic automation. Its innovative streak earned the company the German “Top 100” innovation award four times (2006, 2011, 2016, 2022). Today, the firm remains family-owned and globally renowned, delivering tailored, sustainable horizontal packaging systems across film and paper formats.
