The engineering firm DITTEL Engineering in Schlehdorf, Upper Bavaria, has set the course for the future with a company handover. The company remains in the family, but is now in younger hands. Florian Dittel, the 39-year-old son of the company founder, has been co-owner of the company since July 1, 2020.

Gernod Dittel founded the planning company 28 years ago as a one-man operation and developed it into a renowned service provider in the cleanroom industry. The 63-year-old will continue to oversee the business activities of the now 30-strong engineering firm over the coming years.

The company handover is a step planned for the long term that will secure technical and entrepreneurial expertise at the Schlehdorf site. "Ensuring continuity in good time is a signal to customers and employees," says Gernod Dittel. Father and son have been working together since 2007.

DITTEL Engineering offers jobs in the rural region of the Bavarian Oberland with contact to the high-tech industries of our time and to research institutes. Specialists from all engineering disciplines plan so-called clean rooms at the Schlehdorf site. These are used for research and production of ever higher quality and purity and to protect patients in hospitals. In addition to planning, the range of services includes research, consulting, qualification, measurement technology and project management for all aspects of cleanroom technology.

The engineers transfer the high quality standards to employee management, which is characterized by personal responsibility and self-direction: those who work at Dittel are integrated into project teams, but are largely autonomous in the way they organize their work. This freedom makes it possible to combine family and career and to develop professionally - just like father and son Dittel.