History

The Beginning – The Development

Janu­a­ry 3, 1968, the Foun­ding: Mas­ter metal­wor­ker, Her­bert Thom, starts his own busi­ness in an old blacks­mith shop in Kirch­lin­teln in the Coun­ty of Ver­den. He per­forms metal­work and repairs of all kinds. His wife Eri­ka Thom takes over the office work in 1969. The first appren­ti­ce is hired.

1972 New Hori­zons: Work in mecha­ni­cal engi­nee­ring begins and a fore­men is hired. The deve­lop­ment of special‐purpose machi­nes for the food pro­ces­sing indus­try begins. The staff con­ti­nues to grow. The site in Kirch­lin­teln can no lon­ger hand­le the ever‐growing space requi­re­ments.

1977 Growth Begins: Move to the new faci­li­ty at Heinrich‐Hertz‐Straße 4 in Ver­den. 1982 com­pa­ny con­ver­si­on: The Her­bert Thom pri­va­te com­pa­ny beco­mes the cor­po­ra­ti­on Her­bert Thom GmbH.

1984 Expan­si­on and Exten­si­on: Ope­ning of a second fac­to­ry buil­ding and the new office and soci­al wing. The mecha­ni­cal engi­nee­ring now has pre­cisi­on machi­nes for metal pro­ces­sing with CNC lathes and mil­ling machi­nes and a CNC machi­ning cen­ter. The main­ten­an­ce work is a part of the over­all ser­vice ran­ge for the food indus­try.

1996 THOM Con­ti­nues to Expand: The neigh­bo­ring pro­per­ty is acqui­red and ano­t­her fac­to­ry buil­ding is erec­ted.

1997 THOM Expands his Pro­duct Ran­ge: The com­pa­ny name is now Thom Metall– und Maschi­nen­bau GmbH.

1998 Qua­li­ty in Sight: Qua­li­ty manage­ment sys­tem cer­ti­fi­ca­ti­on accord­ing to DIN EN ISO 9001. In 2002, the cer­ti­fi­ca­ti­on as a spe­cia­list wel­ding com­pa­ny fol­lo­wed.

2001 Chan­ge of Genera­ti­ons: Tors­ten Thom, gra­dua­te engi­neer. (FH), cer­ti­fied indus­tri­al engi­neer, son of Eri­ka and Her­bert Thom, takes over the manage­ment of the com­pa­ny in the second genera­ti­on. Com­pa­ny foun­der Her­bert Thom and his wife Eri­ka Thom reti­re form the active busi­ness on Octo­ber 1, 1999. Wal­ter Ohrn­ber­ger (gra­dua­te eco­no­mist.) was a tran­si­tio­nal mana­ger of the com­pa­ny.

{slide=January 1, 2002 Acqui­si­ti­on: ↓} 1974: Foun­ded by Ste­fan Schmied­bau­er in Wes­ten / Coun­ty of Ver­den. 1990: Remo­val to Ver­den into the new­ly con­struc­ted com­pa­ny buil­ding loca­ted at Justus‐von‐Liebig‐Straße 2. 1997: Exten­si­on of the fac­to­ry buil­ding and cer­ti­fi­ca­ti­on of the qua­li­ty manage­ment sys­tem accord­ing to DIN ENISO 9001. 1997: Cer­ti­fi­ca­ti­on as a spe­cia­li­zed wel­ding com­pa­ny in 2000.{/slide}Tors­ten Thom acqui­res sha­res of Schmied­bauer Stahl– und Metall­bau GmbH, at Justus‐von‐Liebig‐Straße 2 in Ver­den.

2005 Com­ple­ti­on: The mecha­tro­nics depart­ment is estab­lished. THOM beco­mes a com­ple­te sup­plier of machi­nes and sys­tems and main­ten­an­ce.

2006 Mer­ging: The Schmied­bauer Stahl– und Metall­bau GmbH ope­ra­tio­nal busi­ness mer­ges with Thom Metall– und Maschi­nen­bau Gmbh. Thom Metall– und Maschi­nen­bau GmbH moves its com­pa­ny seat to Justus‐von‐Liebig‐Straße in Ver­den. The­re are 90 employees at this loca­ti­on.

2008 Con­so­li­da­ti­on: After the mer­ger the gra­du­al con­so­li­da­ti­on of the ope­ra­ti­ons at Justus‐von‐Liebig‐Straße begins. A new fac­to­ry buil­ding is erec­ted, in which the struc­tu­ral and metal­works capa­ci­ties are con­cen­tra­ted. The admi­nis­tra­ti­on is also cen­tra­li­zed at Justus‐von‐Liebig‐Straße.