“Once you’ve worked with a Hundegger machine, you don’t want to have to do without it anymore,” Markus Zech says. He runs the family company Zech Holzbau, which is locatedin Sauerlach, south of Munich, together with his father Hans Zech. With just one employee and two Hundegger joinery machines, the company specializes in contract joining for regional carpentry companies. The cornerstone for this success story was laid three generations ago: Markus Zech’s great-grandfather founded a carpentry business and invested in a mechanically controlled joinery machine from Fezer in the 1960s – 25 years before Hans Hundegger revolutionized timber construction with the launch of the P8, the first computer-controlled model, in 1985. Pioneer of contract joining In 1999, Hans Zech gave up classic carpentry work and focused on contract joining instead. He established his own business together with a partner and ordered a K1 joinery machine from Hundegger. While the two were waiting for their K1, Hundegger presented the successful K2 model for the first timeat the Ligna fair in Hanover,...
Günther Jauk
Holzkurier 32_2023