F&S BONDTEC Management Expanded
This year, our company turns 30, so it’s time for a handover to the next generation. That’s what co-founder and owner Siegfried Seidl thought, and at the beginning of the year he brought in reinforcements to the executive management team. Miriam Seidl (32) is now responsible for the commercial management as CFO (Chief Financial Officer), while Johann Enthammer (36) is responsible for technical management as CTO (Chief Technical Officer). The previous managing director Siegfried Seidl retains the chairmanship as CEO and remains a shareholder.
But it’s not just about succession planning – our company has grown so much in the meantime that a single managing director has his or her plate quite full, what with taking care of a workforce numbering to 50 employees. In 2023 alone, 10 new employees joined the company. As a result, in recent years the average age in the company has fallen to 37. And because it is not getting any easier to recruit talented people, we are also very adaptable when it comes to mobile working. Our people come from areas as far as Graz and Steyr, and sometimes we even work on software projects from Sweden. After all, 15% of turnover is invested in research and development every year, so you have to look for the right talent everywhere.
What are the plans of the new management team for the future? The key words are continuity and healthy growth. Miriam Seidl looks at the economic side and states: “So far, we have always managed to grow and be profitable at the same time. We want to maintain this balance, because growth at any price is no fun in the long term.” The prerequisites for this are in place, as Enthammer is far from running out of ideas: “The customer requests and suggestions for development alone would keep us quite busy. And we are particularly well positioned when it comes to tailor-made customer solutions, as our machines are designed on a modular principle. This means we can put together what is needed for the customer’s application from a range of standard units.” However, this not only applies to the hardware, as Enthammer emphasizes, but even more so to the software: “We have a real development advantage here, because our software is configured in the same modular way. You can put it together like from a menu card, without having to put in a lot of adaption. And that even means that it can always be expanded and kept up to date in the future. Among our crowd of mechanical equipment makers, this is a forward-looking strategy, but quite a rare one.” Of course, the buzzword “artificial intelligence” is even more important, as there are a number of attractive applications in the highly demanding electronics production with extreme quality standards.
