PAUL HARTMANN AG, the parent company of the Group, belongs to the long-estab- lished German industrial companies and is the oldest German dressings manu- facturer.
The HARTMANN GROUP is a company which operates internationally in the field of medical and hygiene products. The core of our product portfolio under the HARTMANN brand consists of professional system-solutions in the fields of wound treatment, incontinence hygiene and risk prevention in the operating theater. Our medical and patient-care lines are rounded out by supplementary products and support services
With its head office in Heidenheim and employing 8,752 employees worldwide (as at 31 December 2006) thereby achieving sales revenues of 1,220 million Euros in 2006, Europe is still the main market for the Group. It was there that we achieved over 90.6 % of total sales with markets outside. Germany alone accounts 35.4 %.
HARTMANN is represented by its own subsidiary companies in a total of 37 countries. In Germany, the following companies belong to the HARTMANN GROUP: Karl Otto Braun KG in the town of Wolfstein, the Kneipp-Group in the town of Würzburg, the trading company Sanimed GmbH in the town of Ibbenbueren and HARTMANN Pardes GmbH in the town of Maintal.
HARTMANN is a piece of medical history
Paul Hartmann senior 1812-1884
PAUL HARTMANN AG, the parent company of the Group, is among the long-established German industrial companies and is the oldest German dressings manufacturer. Its history can be traced back to a spinning mill founded in Heidenheim by Ludwig von Hartmann in 1818.
In 1873, under the management of his son Paul Hartmann, the production started of absorbent cotton wool according to a method for the removal of grease from cotton developed by the surgeon Professor Victor von Bruns from Tuebingen. A year later the Scottish Doctor, Sir Joseph Lister described in detail a process for the manufacture of germ-killing wound dressings in a letter to Paul Hartmann. The manufacture of dressings on an industrial scale started in Heidenheim with the manufacturing of "Lister'scher Carbolgaze" (Lister's carbolated gauze) as well as absorbent cotton wool according to Prof. von Bruns. The company became, also internationally, the flagship of an expanding dressings industry very quickly.
The basis: medical expertise
You will find us everywhere where people are being helped. With products which are needed daily for treat- ment, care and hygiene.
Our close contact with our partners from medicine and care as well as the intensive investigation of syndromes, care processes and hygiene matters is, even today, the basis for the development of user-friendly and innovative products and services.
They match the needs of our customers and make their daily duties for the good of the patients a little more efficient.
