Company Chronicle
Success story for quality since 1995
2020+
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2022 PTE Austria concentrates fully on Marketing. With an own photographer’s place, the product pictures are made by PTE Austria and the Website goes finally online after two years.
2021 Franz Silbermayr, passionate developer und salesman, always friendly and happy person, proud father and grandfather, passes on unexpectedly on the evening of the 8th March, 2021 after an intensive, successful and fulfilled life.
After this tragic loss to the Silbermayr family and the Pulp and Paper Laboratory Equipment branch, and with the toughest conditions due to the global COVID pandemic, PTE Austria continues to develop and manufacture in highest quality and supplies to customers worldwide. 2020 After seven thriving years, the new founded company PTE Austria successfully aquires the knowledge, technical drawings and resources from Xell GmbH and continues as PTE – Pulp Test Equipment GmbH – Xell & Einlehner Instruments. The company re-enters the market under the leadership of Michael Silbermayr, accompanied by his father Franz Silbermayr, a highly motivated and an experienced team as well as long-standing business partners. PTE Austria owns all rights of the former Xell and thus is able to continue to manufacture and further develop the world famous and successful Einlehner devices based on the knowledge of Mr. Hans Einlehner as well as to provide spare and wear parts of Xell devices. The main focus is the manufacturing of pulp test equipment and development of customer specific special devices. The further development and production of high quality and precise laboratory devices to test pulp, paper, board and tissue is still in the foreground. The new base software of PTE Austria was matched to the new devices from an external team and is continuously developed further in order to ensure a smooth and user-friendly operation of the PTE Austria machines. PTE Austria offers service & maintenance for own, former Xell, Einlehner and third-party devices. PTE Austria cares, stays with the customer from the start and helps in installing, training, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing, upgrading or even disposing of the product.
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Prequel 1995 - 2020
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2020 After seven thriving years, the new founded company PTE Austria successfully aquires the knowledge, technical drawings and resources from Xell GmbH and continues as PTE – Pulp Test Equipment GmbH – Xell & Einlehner Instruments. 2017 Xell GmbH obtains the rights of the company Einlehner and starts the production of the renewed Einlehner AT 1000 Abrasion Testers with integrated touchscreen. 2013 Sons of Franz Silbermayr found the company Xell GmbH in Upper Austria, where the manufacturing and development of pulp, paper, board and tissue laboratory devices continues with a team of experts. 2012 Franz Silbermayr sells PTI to an interested party and pursues his second passion in life, the real estate business. 2006 In the following years, further machines are manufactured, developed and modernized. 2004 The German branch moves into a larger company building and the production and development continues on 800m² production and administration area. 2002 Due to the good business situation, the Austrian company moves into a larger building and continues research, development as well as production now on 700m². 2000 Franz Silbermayr acquires the German company Karl Frank Ltd. and founds Frank Prüfgeräte GmbH. With material and rights bought, spare and wear parts can be continued to be delivered and the manufacturing of laboratory test machines now takes place on two locations. 1998 The production area of the company is relocated and more pulp testers e.g. Laboratory Hollander, Equalizers, Disintegrators, Freeness Testers, Sheet Formers, Speed Dryers, etc. are developed and manufactured 1997 A new Schopper Riegler Freeness Tester in high-quality stainless-steel design and digital display for reproduceable measuring values is developed and becomes another success. 1996 Under the leadership of Franz Silbermayr, a new sheet former on basis of the Gockel sheet former is developed and sold in the following years for over 300 times. The device is now in use in many paper- and pulp laboratories all over the world. 1995 On the 6th of December 1995 founded Franz Silbermayr the company PTI (Paper Testing Instruments Ltd.) in Pettenbach, Upper Austria, with headquarters in the residence of the Silbermayr family and lays the foundation of today’s company PTE – Pulp Test Eqipment Ltd. / Xell & Einlehner Instruments (PTE Austria). |
