We have a tradition of innovation

Plant engineering for the food industry for three generations

Next Level has been our program since 1947.
As a family-owned company, we have been shaping special plant construction in the food sector for decades.

From copper roofs to aluminum milk cans to stainless steel tanks. From machine automation to the integration of robots and control by AI.

Interview with Sascha ten Brink

ten Brink has been moving with the times since 1947 and always tries to be one step ahead.
We have been successfully developing product and process innovations for the food industry for three generations.
Individual solutions are our specialty.
There is no such thing as “can’t”.

As a family business, we are rooted in Nuremberg.
We can manufacture almost 100 percent of our products directly on site at our factory.
Our lean organizational structure allows us short decision-making processes, fast response times and the flexibility to find and develop completely new solutions for our customers.
Our growing team combines the expertise of skilled workers, certified welders, engineers and specialists in assembly and commissioning.

Your special solution

our core competence

became successful with fruit and vegetable processing

Unique in confectionery production worldwide

Grown efficiently in meat and sausage processing

Individual. Uncompromising. Innovative.

Contact person:

Your direct line to the management

From the initial inquiry through to commissioning, your direct contacts are the two managing directors: Sascha ten Brink and Alexander Reuß.
Your advantage as a customer: direct communication, quick decisions and personal support on site.

Sascha ten Brink

is the third generation to manage the company.

He joined the family business in 2004 and founded ten Brink Engineering & Consulting GmbH & Co KG with his father in 2005.
He can now look back on over 20 years of specialist knowledge and experience in plant engineering.
In 2016, he expanded production to Asia with the founding of ten Brink Engineering India Private Limited.

Alexander Reuß

has been an additional Managing Director alongside Sascha ten Brink since 2023.

He was previously operations manager at ten Brink Engineering & Consulting GmbH & Co. KG for four years and is very familiar with the company’s production program.
Alexander Reuß is a trained automotive mechatronics technician and has a degree in mechanical engineering.
After completing his training, he initially joined his parents’ company in the metalworking and processing sector.
After graduating, he founded and managed his own company for sheet metal working and processing until 2019.

The management is supported by:

Anuschka Löscher

Assistant to the management

Marc Heitkämper

since 2024 Project manager

"If you want to develop innovations, you have to constantly develop yourself."

Successful since 1947

Locally rooted, globally active

1947

From copper roofs to kitchen fittings: Hans ten Brink founds Hans ten Brink KG.

1970

Stainless steel and large systems: ten Brink is expanding in Nuremberg.

1978

No sauerkraut without ten Brink-Blancheur: The company is renamed ten Brink Maschinen- und Apparatebau GmbH & Co KG.

1989

Transition and realignment: Hans ten Brink leaves the company.

2004

The third generation: Sascha ten Brink founds ten Brink Engineering & Consulting GmbH & Co KG.

2016

Going global in India: Sascha ten Brink founds ten Brink Engineering India Private Limited.

2017-2021

Next level automation: New systems are being developed.

2023

Reinforcement and new dimensions: Alexander Reuß becomes second managing director.

Together with his uncle Hans Luther ten Brink, master coppersmith Hans ten Brink helps to rebuild destroyed churches after the Second World War. Their copper roofs and copper weather vanes still adorn many churches today. In July 1947, Hans ten Brink founds Hans ten Brink KG and produces pans, bread kettles, irons and hot-water bottles on a small scale. He soon uses aluminum as a material and produces milk cans for milk processing.

At the beginning of the 1970s, ten Brink helps to shape industrial growth. The company expands and moves to the new site in Nuremberg Schafhof. Large systems for the food industry are now built in larger production halls and with a larger workforce. ten Brink is one of the first companies in southern Germany to use stainless steel as a material. Pasteurizers and blanchers become the core pillars of ten Brink.

Hannes ten Brink joins his father's company in 1978 after passing his master craftsman's examination as a coppersmith. Father and son shape the further growth of the family business. More than 50 workers are employed in Nuremberg and produce equipment on a piecework basis. During this time, ten Brink grew significantly with the canning industry and almost every canning producer worked with pasteurizers and blanchers from ten Brink.

Hannes ten Brink becomes Managing Director of ten Brink Anlagenbau GmbH & Co KG in 1989. Following a joint decision with his father, a new, larger production plant (1,600 m²) is built on top of the existing one. Incidentally, this is the plant that still stands today. After a challenging transitional period of construction while maintaining production, Hannes ten Brink expands the production program to include systems for confectionery and meat processing.

After completing his correspondence course in business administration, Sascha ten Brink joined his father's company in April 2004. He brings additional commercial know-how to the company, while Hannes ten Brink passes on his specialist technical knowledge on the job. Father and son settle the company succession early on and Sascha ten Brink founds today's company ten Brink Engineering & Consulting GmbH & Co KG in 2005.

Sascha ten Brink has been successfully building up business relationships in the Indian market for fruit and vegetable processing systems for several years. In August 2016, he founded ten Brink Engineering India Private Limited with his Indian business partner N.D. Prakash. The Nuremberg-based family business enters the steadily growing Indian market and finds its answer to the cost pressure from Asian competitors.

For ten Brink, next level means constantly developing product and process innovations. In the confectionery sector, a fully automatic, AI-controlled gravimetric dosing system for gelatine products and a feeding line for automatic separation for pick-and-place robots were developed during these years. In the fruit and vegetable sector, ten Brink develops a new cooking system for red cabbage, an automatic feeding system for tubular bags on pasteurizers and an automatic unloading system for autoclave cages.

Sascha ten Brink is getting reinforcements in 2023 and is appointing Alexander Reuß as an additional Managing Director. ten Brink builds in new dimensions in the plant sector. In 2022, a high-performance Jumbo Mogul system for the post-treatment of confectionery leaves the hall in Nuremberg. Its capacity: 5 tons per hour. In 2023, a complete processing line for frozen potatoes and an energy-saving tunnel pasteurizer with a length of 34 m and a usable width of 3 m will follow.

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