History

Foundation of the sole proprietorship Marcel Tanner by Rita and Marcel Tanner. The trained draughtsmen construct various assemblies for mechanical engineering in wage labour.

First own assembly work. Smaller conveyor belts – mainly for the food indutry – are produced.

Employment of a design engineer. First contacts for the transformer production concerning insulating apparatus and winding cores (expanding mandrels).

First parts are produced in-house. Employment of a machine mechanice and a machine fitter.

Transformation of the sole proprietorship Marcel Tanner into M. Tanner AG.

M. Tanner AG is active in two areas. Conveying technology and transformer technology. The transformer technology division produces machines and equipment for the manufacture of electrical coils for the production of large transformers and railway motors.

First test trials in the field of PET feeding systems.

First delivery of a feeding system for PET stretch blow moulding machines with a capacity of 1500 preforms per hour.

Relocation of the headquarters of M. Tanner AG from Zurich to Tagelswangen (Lindau ZH) with six employees.

Relocation of the M. Tanner AG headquarters from Tagelswangen to Illnau (Effretikon) with 12 employees.

Around 23 employees work for M. Tanner AG.

Opening of plant 2. M. Tanner AG production moves into larger premises near the main site.

M. Tanner AG has around 65 employees.

Opening of plant 3. The large-scale assembly is now located next to the production (plant 2) in an assembly hall.

The city council of Illnau-Effretikon presents M. Tanner AG with the recognition award for the company of the year 2009. In the meantime, over 2000 PET feeding systems from M. Tanner AG are in use worldwide.

The 1st Tanner clamping conveyor is delivered and put into operation.

Change of management. Marco Tanner replaces his father Marcel Tanner as CEO.

Tanner is installing two new OHT clamping conveyors with overhead rinser at Coca-Cola Hellenic in Austria and at Mosterei Möhl in Switzerland.

Together with the Swiss company IMD AG, Tanner has several preform feeding systems  with inspection systems in operation.

Tanner OHT clamping conveyors with the options camera inspection, overhead air rinser and UVC irradiation are regularly installed worldwide as all-in-one solutions.

With its wide range of products, Tanner is considered the world’s number one contact for preform handling upstream of blow moulders and inspection systems.

First Tanner AS Preform Line delivered. The high-quality Clean-Line feeding system was manufactured for a German market leader in the dairy industry.

CLEAN LINE: More than 15 installations have already been put into operation worldwide with controlled air exchange (H14 filter) within the complete system..