Former Stadler Gets Into Boss
Thurgau traditional company Nobel saved at the last minute – 60 jobs left
Three weeks ago, Nobel Group, a Thurgau maker of chocolate machines, threw in the towel. Bankruptcy! 60 employees lost their jobs. Now the rescue is being done. Former Stadler CEO Thomas Ahlberg took over the bankrupt company.
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Last-second rescue for the bankrupt mechanical engineering company Nobel in Thurgau.
At Felben-Wellhausen TG, the machines should be restarting soon. Thomas Ahlberg, 52, former CEO of Thurgau train builder Stadler Rail, has bought the assets of the bankrupt mechanical engineering company Nobel. Don’t know at what cost.
Ahlberg can be quoted in a statement as saying, “We are confident about the technology and staff and want to continue to offer high performance machines and complete solutions with purchases and ensure to service over 2000 installed systems. ”
The new owner did not take the loan of the company. Therefore, acquisition is probably only possible after bankruptcy. If the investor had got it earlier, he would have had to bear the financial legacy.
Felben-Wellhausen TG’s Nobel only filed for bankruptcy in late July. The reason for this was the strong Swiss franc, which put the export business of the highly specialized company in trouble.
Nobel is the world market leader in the production of molding machines for the chocolate industry. Thurgau machines ensure, for example, that chocolate is poured into rabbits or Santa Claus molds every second. 95 percent of machines are exported – margins shrank due to a weaker euro.
The new owner Thomas Ahlberg is an industrial giant from eastern Switzerland: from 2012 to 2020 he worked for the Thurgau train builder Stadler under mentor Peter Shler (63), whose previous two years as CEO. Spehler and Ahlberg split in 2020 due to “rare differences”. President Spehler has never appointed a new CEO since Ahlberg’s departure – he has been running the company himself ever since.
Ahlberg, for his part, got into the chocolate business a year ago, acquiring Avema AG and its sister company, Bloomer Maschinenbau AG. Awema also manufactures machines for chocolate production and is therefore a competitor to Nobel.
Although Nobel was saved with the takeover, 60 employees had already been dismissed when bankruptcy proceedings began. Have to get employees on board again. Most of them would return, some had already signed new employment contracts, the new owners said upon request. This includes former chairman of the board of directors and new CEO Daniel Zuger.
The name is also new: Nobel Group becomes Tricono AG. On the other hand, the Felben-Wellhausen location will remain the same, the new owner assures. However, it will take some time for the machines there to run at full power again. It will take several weeks to get the company up and running again.
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