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[November 2009]
Linn Celebrates 40th Anniversary
Horst Linn, founder of Linn High Therm GmbH (Eschenfelden, Germany) has recently marked the occasion of his 40th anniversary in the business. In a pavilion only few hundred metres away from the HQ, centre of operations for this leading manufacturer of custom industrial scale and laboratory furnaces, guests from eleven nations arrived to honour Horst Linn and celebrate with him and his team.
Over 330 guests including high ranking government officials, prominent industry executives, loyal customers and suppliers, friends, staff members and former colleagues joined together to share and celebrate this significant milestone with Mr Linn.
Following numerous greetings by friends and colleagues, Father Anselm Bilgri – former Cellerar of the Benedictine Abbey St.Bonifaz in Munich and the Convent Andechs, as well as the leader of the brewery – delivered a speech about ethics, culture and economy in business life. A music band and a cabaret artist provided live music entertainment for the guests and caricature artist Klaus Häring sketched the guest portraits. The Linn Team presented their boss with a very special present, a manually cast 4kg heavy bell engraved with company data.
The success story of Horst Linn started 40 years ago in a little rented room in Hersbruck. Subsequently, the company evolved to employ more than 100 employees at three different production locations (Eschenfelden, Bad Frankenhausen and Ljubljana), and worldwide sales. Mr Linn’s entrepreneurial career highlights include the incorporation of Linn furnaces in the Russian space mission D1 and D2.
His involvement in non-profit activities saw him awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon, The Federal Cross of Merit First Class and the State Medal for special merits around the Bavarian economy. He was also awarded with the ‘Goldene Nase’ as ‘Business Angel of the year 2004’. He has also been highly appreciated for his activities in associations such as the VDMA, AiF and as Business-Angel in ‘Netzwerk Nordbayern’.
In 1989, Horst Linn took over the former company VEB Elektro in the Thuringian city Bad Frankenhausen. This site, referred to as Plant II, currently employs 30 people. Due to Mr Linn’s commitment, Plant II is one of the growing plants in Thuringia with positive business prospects.
The District Administrator Hengstermann presented Horst Linn with the merit medal of the district Kyffhäuser in tribute to his commitment in the newly formed German States.
Linn High Therm has an export quota of over 60% worldwide. The focus concentrates on Eastern Europe, Russia, China and Asia. The distribution and service network, with offices in Russia and China, stretches across more than 50 countries.
ENDS