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Company history

 

Dough divider and molder developed
and built in Triebes around 1930
The beginnings of TRIMA Triebeser Maschinenbau GmbH go back to 1887, the year Herbert Schröder set up a craft business in Langenwetzendorf. At that time, a baker had requested that an appliance be made which would knead dough. Legend has it that Schröder succeeded in making a "kneading apparatus" which worked to the fullest satisfaction.

In 1902, the business, which employed about 10 people, moved to Triebes and started specializing in baking machines. In the course of time, the production of dough molders and dividers improved and expanded. The construction of a new factory on the premises of the present company began in 1940, a time at which the workforce had gone up to 40.

After the end of World War II, the company was at first placed under administration and nationalized and renamed VEB Bäckereimaschinenfabrik Fortuna in 1953. Baking machines were produced for the home market. Some baking machine production was outsourced and the factory renamed in 1959. Special-purpose machines for the food industry and the wood-working and processing industry were built until 1990.

In connection with the nationalization in 1953, the then proprietor family moved to Staffelstein, Bavaria, where they founded the Edmund Schröder Maschinenfabrik.

After the end of East Germany, the firms TRIMA and Fortuna started cooperation. Fortuna resumed the production of baking machines in Triebes in 1990. At the beginning, these were mainly machines of the Schröder company, later more and more TRIMA in-house developments such as for example, the well-known Fortuna head machines KM2, KM 4 with up to 6 pockets, electronics, square roll maker and dough weigher. These machines were produced and sold by the two firms together for more than 15 years. Customer care and service of the Fortuna product portfolio in eastern Germany were provided by TRIMA.

Cooperation with the Schröder Maschinenfabrik in Staffelstein ended in 2006, when that firm went bankrupt and our proven machine range has since been marketed under the TRIMA brand.

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