Multivac acquires TVI holdings after managing director’s planned departure

17 Jan 2022 --- Multivac is acquiring the complete holdings of TVI Entwicklung und Produktion (TVI) in Bruckmühl, Germany, following the planned departure of Thomas Völkl as TVI’s managing director and company partner December 31, 2021.

TVI is a market leader in portioning machines and has been part of the Multivac Group since January 2017.

The product range comprises efficient and needs-based solutions for tempering, freezing, pressing, portioning and automating, and for winding grill sticks and producing kebab skewers.

“The name Thomas Völkl is closely associated with the success story of TVI, and it stands not only for the company’s high degree of innovation, but also for a very high level of customer focus,” says Guido Spix, Multivac’s joint group president.

“We would like to offer our sincerest thanks to Thomas Völkl for his outstanding service. As managing director and company partner, he gave advice and support to the integration of TVI into the Group, and he made a major contribution to the further development of the company as a significant part of the Multivac Group.”

TVI remains autonomous
TVI will remain an autonomous company within the Multivac Group, confirms Christian Traumann, Multivac’s joint group president.

“By acquiring TVI’s complete holdings, we are underlining the strategic importance of TVI within the Group. The company is an essential component for the further alignment of Multivac as a complete supplier of packaging and processing solutions.”

“This [importance] is also shown by the investment in TVI’s new site in Bruckmühl, which offers the ideal conditions for further sustainable growth, and which makes it possible to systematically expand TVI’s leading position in the meat portioning sector.”

Multivac in the news
In other developments, Multivac recently added three traysealer models with a new wide-format to its TX8 series, offering customers more packaging flexibility and improved process reliability.

The equipment supplier also promoted its FreshSafe packaging system for extending the shelf life of delicate natural products, including fruit and vegetables. The system employs a method of producing equilibrium atmosphere packs, optimizing the oxygen content.

Meanwhile, FiliGrade Sustainable Watermarks recently launched its CurvCode digital watermark system on Multivac fish packaging in the Netherlands, claiming the technology will be the “missing link” for sorting post-consumer and industrial plastics into the waste stream.

Edited by Joshua Poole