31.07.2012 – Adolf Zimmermann, who was born 1922 in Silesia, came to Osterburken in 1946 as a result of the Second World War. He found a new profession here as a millwright at the Semel municipal mill. For a young man bursting with ideas, Baden-Württemberg was the ideal breeding ground where he could turn his numerous ideas and inventions into reality. Needless to say, starting out was not easy as conditions were very difficult. There was a lack of everything. However, true to his motto of “failure is not an option”, he was able to achieve much even under the difficult conditions. He got to know his wife Marianne in the years that followed. In May 1949, they laid the cornerstone for the company that today is AZO.
In 1951, Adolf Zimmerman built the “Pyramidal” grain cleaning machine. Ultimately it was a master baker who gave him the impetus for constructing the first centrifugal flour screening machine. It was launched on the market in 1952 under the “Triumpf” brand and is considered the prototype for today’s cyclone screeners.
In 1963 the cornerstone was laid for the factory shed with a saw-tooth roof on the site of what is today AZO’s headquarter.
His fascination and enthusiasm for new technologies has not waned to this day. For example, he showed a lively interest in the progress during building of the new assembly centre in 2010 as he followed it on the webcam. He viewed demolition of the factory shed, constructed with a saw-tooth roof and, in 1963, the first AZO building in the Industrial Estate East, without nostalgia since his concern was always to “make way for new things”.
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