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Visit to the Badische Zeitung in Freiburg

This year our employees had the opportunity to take a look behind the scenes at the Badische Zeitung (a regional newspaper) in Freiburg.
During a very interesting guided tour of the press house, we visited the in-house printing department, the shipping hall and the museum. From the first issue of this regional newspaper after the war to today's modern newspaper printing, we got insights into the most important milestones of a newspaper and of the company...

... history.
At the end of the tour while looking for a suitable photographer for a group photo we were even lucky to be photographed personally by the editor-in-chief, Mr. Thomas Fricker.
Filled with new impressions, we were able to end the exciting and eventful afternoon with dinner together.
Many thanks also to Ms. Gudrun Eberle for the lovely and entertaining tour!

Valuable exchange at the FEIBP Congress 2024

From October 9th to 12th, 2024, the management of HATHO took part in the 64th Congress of the European Brushware Federation FEIBP in Ibiza.
It was again a great event with valuable exchanges about the industry, workshops and interesting lectures. The congress was completed by an eventful supporting program on the beautiful island of Ibiza.
Praise goes to the entire FEIBP board around Alessandro Acquaderni (President of the FEIBP), who managed to create...

... an informal atmosphere within which important “networking” was possible.

Team Spirit at the B2Run 2024 in Freiburg

“Active together”: this year, 20 HATHO employees participated in the B2Run in Freiburg. This equates to more than a quarter of the workforce which took part - something we are very proud of!
Together with 11,500 starters from 533 companies, 5 km were successfully completed and the atmosphere at the B2run was thoroughly enjoyed.
We look back on a great team event and are already looking forward to the next year!

It’s done!

HATHO has had its quality management system ISO 9001:2015 recertification.

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Successes at Cross Country Championships

Our employee Filmon Teklebrhan-Berhe (athletics club LAC Freiburg) took 2nd place in cross-country running (9.7 km - 28:31 min.) at the German Championships in Perl, Germany on November 25th, 2023 and thus received a ticket for the European Cross-Country Championships.
Despite an injury, he took part in the European Cross Country Running Championships in Brussels, Belgium on December 10, 2023. He wanted to ensure that the DLV team (German Athletics...

... Association) definitely made it into the team rankings, as another runner had already dropped out. Under these difficult conditions he managed to finish the race successfully.
We warmly congratulate him on his fantastic successes!!

B2Run in Freiburg

Two of our employees took part in this year's B2Run in Freiburg on June 23, 2023 with great success:
Sean Kenny, Junior Director, and Filmon Teklebrhan-Berhe, Deputy Department Supervisor.
In addition to his work at HATHO, Mr. Teklebrhan-Berhe is a professional runner and took part in the German championship over 5,000 m in 2022.
Mr. Kenny runs regularly in his free time and enjoyed the atmosphere during his run at the B2Run with 9,800 participants.

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Passing with flying colors

Our apprentice Mr Filmon Teklebrhan-Berhe completed his apprenticeship as a Machine and Systems Operator with great success on July 29, 2020.

We are delighted with what he has achieved and congratulate him on his great result.
Despite this difficult time we are currently in, Mr Filmon Teklebrhan-Berhe was offered a fulltime position within HATHO.

NEW: 3D MaxiPol Set

HATHO’s new 3D MaxiPol Set for the polishing of acrylic dentures and 3D-resins on the polishing lathe.
The extraordinary polishing results are convincing!

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HATHO celebrates its 50th anniversary

Over the past 50 years the name HATHO has been associated to first-class products with exceptional service within the Brush Industry.

HATHO was founded on the 6th of December 1968 by Mr. HAns THOma. Over the past 50 years, we have expanded our knowledge and expertise to enable us to build trade globally using our innovative can do attitude. Trade partners and end users such as dentists, dental technicians, gold and silversmiths, industrial users,...

... modelers and DIY enthusiasts in more than fifty countries worldwide attest to the high value and excellent quality of our broad product range.

Since the company was founded in 1968 we rely on the use of our self-developed production machines consisting of innovative and sophisticated technology which is part of the HATHO philosophy, this combined with our competent and motivated employees guaranties that only products of the highest standard leaves our production facility.

Our managing director Dr. Ralf Steiner who joined the company in 1991, continues these core values to this day. In the year 2003 a new production facility was built in the Gewerbepark Breisgau industrial estate in Eschbach, approx. 30km south of Freiburg. This allowed us to expand and optimize our production processes for further growth. It has always been a priority for HATHO to have a close working relationship with the end user and because of this it has allowed us to develop multiple new products while also improving existing products.

We have proven to be an innovative and ambitious company that has accepted and exceled at every challenge to date, we are extremely proud of this and will continue to innovate further into the future.

The future of HATHO´s general management is set. Since several months Dr. Steiner´s son-in-law, Mr. Sean Kenny, is already active. As mechanical engineer, he has started in production as direct assistance of the production manager. Step by step Sean Kenny will go through all departments to gain experience for his future task in HATHO´s general management.

The success of the past 50 years allows us to look forward to the future with a positive and ambitious attitude.