TRADITION AND PROGRESS

The company, Petzholdt-Heidenauer Maschinen- und Anlagenbau International GmbH, is a company with a tradition of more than 170 years in the field of production and development of special machines for the cocoa processing and chocolate mass production.
For the cocoa production our products cover the main processing steps from roasting of the cocoa beans to milling of cocoa powder.
For the chocolate mass production the complete scope of delivery is available to our customers from mixing of the ingredients over the rolling to the conching of the mass.
Our machines and equipments are used worldwide in over 80 countries.

The history of our company goes back to the year 1834.
Since 1 September 2004 the company, Petzholdt-Heidenauer Maschinen- und Anlagenbau International GmbH, is a member of the LADCO GROUP / Scotland.
Having the new share holder on our side we have had the possibility to extend our economically successful company on the Dresden site by extensive investments during the last years.
Main investments have been done in the purchase of properties, new erection of buildings and the purchase of new machines for the production in order to extend the manufacturing and assembling capacity.
On our 25,000 qm large estate we now totally have an area for production, assembly and storage of approx. 8,000 qm.
In the next years further investments in the extension of the assembling capacity as well as of the research and development works will be planned, too.

Because of the high quality and reliability of our machines andequipments as well as due to the decades of experience and the know-how of our employees we belong to the worldwide most important suppliers of special machines and equipments for the cocoa and chocolate industry.