Innovation. Passion. First. Our philosophy.
Highest quality with no compromises
Wipotec is a leading global provider of intelligent weighing and inspection technology. State-of-the-art systems for Track & Trace, marking and labeling complete this core competence.
Driven by our corporate philosophy “Innovation. Passion. First.”, we develop and produce unique machine solutions and technologies for OEM and end users in a wide range of industries at our head office in Kaiserslautern. As a founder-managed, solid company with more than 35 years of experience, we value enduring, long-term partnerships and always put our customers first. “First” as in top priority.
Our integrated solutions cover the entire value chain – from hardware and software development to in-house production with an exceptionally high level of vertical integration and a dedicated after-sales service. Everything is produced under one roof – quickly, precisely and to the highest quality standards.
More than 1,200 dedicated employees are the driving force behind our success. With more than 100 locations and partners around the world, we guarantee our customers proximity, responsiveness and comprehensive support – wherever they need us.
For us, the “Designed, Engineered and Manufactured in Germany” seal not only stands for premium quality, but also for measurable customer benefit in the most demanding, high-performance applications.
Our high-performance product range includes high-precision checkweighers, state-of-the-art X-ray inspection systems, pioneering Track & Trace solutions and intelligent technologies for the mail and logistics industry.
As a global innovation leader for integrated Weigh Cell technology, Wipotec gives OEM partners a decisive competitive edge – through precision, flexibility and perfect integration into a wide range of applications.
Space for ideas – where innovation grows, quality is created, and the future is built.
A strong team driven by cohesion, enthusiasm, and an unwavering commitment to delivering the best for our customers every day.
Our sales and service network of branches and certified affiliates covers the whole world. Wherever you’re based, we offer you manufacturing quality Made in Germany.
Our success is the result of your appreciation and the passion of our employees.
Quality and precision – Everything under one roof
At Wipotec, all products and integration solutions are developed in our state-of-the-art main plant in Kaiserslautern – from the initial idea to final delivery. Our engineering expertise, combined with the principle of “everything from a single source”, guarantees the highest quality, reliability and exceptional performance with maximum integration capability.
What makes us special: a unique vertical integration – confirmed by our ISO 9001-certified quality management processes, which ensure the highest standards in all areas of our production and organization.
By covering almost the entire value chain – from basic research, software and hardware development, electronics manufacturing, design, and assembly to sales and service – we ensure maximum control and flexibility.
Short distances and bundled expertise enable us to quickly implement the latest innovations and precisely fulfill even unusual requirements. True to the guiding principle of our founder Theo Düppre: “There’s no such thing as impossible.”
Environmental protection is firmly rooted in our corporate philosophy: We already meet 85 % of our energy requirements using alternative energy sources and have been able to reduce CO2 emissions by 97 %. In addition to photovoltaics, solar thermal energy, geothermal energy, waste heat, rainwater heat exchangers, and large liquid-based batteries, further plans for wind power and superconductor technology are in the pipeline.
We are taking the lead.
With our high degree of in-house production, we set an exceptional standard. This guarantees the long-standing and unwavering delivery reliability that we offer our customers. We are particularly proud of this.
Innovation based on our own expertise: from basic research to construction and printed circuit board design to software development, Wipotec develops pioneering solutions entirely in-house.
With every environmentally friendly technology we use, we significantly reduce our CO2 emissions – a clear commitment to our responsibility towards people, nature, and future generations.
For us, quality is more than just a promise – it is the drive to exceed your expectations. With the ambition to develop further and become even better every day.
“Nothing is impossible.”
The genius Albert Einstein once said that you can recognize a really good idea by the fact that its implementation seems impossible in the first place. I took this almost philosophical statement and turned it for us into the simple maxim “Nothing is impossible”. I wanted it to express our customer-oriented innovation and our infinite passion for creating new value-added solutions within the Wipotec Group.
— Theo Düppre, CEO and founder of Wipotec
Business to Society
„A company must contribute to the well-being and advancement of society – not just short term but long term.“
– Theo Düppre, CEO
Global head office of the Wipotec
In addition to traditional commercial functions, Wipotec pools basic research, hardware and software development, design, project management and production in a 32,000 sqm skills center with unrivalled vertical integration. For our customers, this guarantees quick-to-implement standard solutions and optimum functionality through customized engineering solutions. Designed, engineered and manufactured in Germany.
Wipotec Production Track & Trace and Checkweighers
Customers visiting Wipotec for the first time are always impressed by the precision, focus and special atmosphere, more akin to a factory, even though the partially synchronized production lines produce significantly large quantities.
Expert Service
With a global service network, Wipotec guarantees its customers fast and proficient handling of initial installation and maintenance, on site assistance at short notice and speedy spare parts delivery. As experts in your field, our experienced service technicians are available to assist you on site, by phone or via online remote services directly at the plant, so that an optimal production process is available again as quickly as possible. As part of our scope of services, we also offer maintenance training for your operators and technicians on our user-friendly machines. This will help you to get the best from your machinery and equipment pool at all times and ensure that you achieve the required range of products on a continuous basis.
Our Management Team
The Key to the success.
Our history.
Udo Wagner, Theo Düppre and Haiges Waagenbau
established Wipotec GmbH in Kaiserslautern. The first business premises were leased. Late 80s: Hanover trade fair. Presentation of the first monoblock Weigh Cell on the Rhineland-Palatinate’s shared stand. Industry starts to notice. Initial orders for electronics for scales and Weigh Cells follow.
Relocation to
a new 1,200 sqm building in an industrial estate. The company now employs a staff of 30. Performance of development contracts and Weigh Cell production for business associates.
Cooperation with machine manufacturers
on the production of modules and software for scales. Start of series production for company’s own checkweighers.
Foundation of a sales subsidiary in Schwäbisch Hall
with a partner. The US Postal Service orders the first catchweighers developed and produced by Wipotec. Establishment of a dedicated machining department.
Setting up of a sales and service office in the USA
Entry into the pharmaceutical industry with checkweighers. The number of employees doubles to 100 within the next two years.
Expansion of the product range
by adding dual lane scales and integration of metal detection. The sales subsidiary set up in Schwäbisch Hall in 1996 becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Wipotec.
Delivery of the 1,000th checkweigher
The UK office is set up. Expansion as a result of new building and new building phases. At year end Wipotec employs more than 100 employees.
Expansion of production areas in Kaiserslautern
Introduction of a 10-lane checkweigher.The sales subsidiary in Schwäbisch Hall now operates as OCS Checkweighers GmbH.
Expansion
A branch office is opened in Pero, Italy
Record
For the first time ever, Wipotec produces more than 2,500 Weigh Cells a year.
Construction and move
into further new company buildings on site. The branch office in Atlanta, USA, is opened. The world’s fastest MID-approved letter scale is built in Kaiserslautern. Inspection technology is expanded by the addition of X-ray inspection.
Sales exceed …
… the 50 million euro mark. The Spanish branch office is opened in Barcelona. Introduction of X-ray scanners, combined with checkweighers (Weigh & Ray combined solutions).
25th anniversary
Wipotec celebrates its 25th anniversary, the number of employees has grown to more than 350. Further expansion of the operational and production area. 18,000 sqm of underfloor heating operated with geothermal heat from a geothermal energy plant.
China sales office opening
Import, sales and service of products in the field of Weighing & Inspection Solutions also in Asia.
More than 85 % vertical integration
Vertical integration at the central production site in Kaiserslautern reaches more than 85 % as a result of the “Everything from a single source” principle. As a rapidly growing global ‘hidden champion’, Wipotec now supplies customers all over the world with weighing and inspection solutions in more than eight target industries, with a growing focus on the market for drug safety (Track & Trace).
New global brand architecture
Some 500 people now work for Wipotec in Kaiserslautern, bringing the number to more than 700 worldwide. At the beginning of the year, the corporate group adopts a new brand architecture which focuses on the core brand Wipotec. In May, the sales and service organisations, Wipotec Weighing Technology and Wipotec-OCS, appear under a joint umbrella at Interpack in Düsseldorf to face the largest trade fair in their history.
30th anniversary
From Kaiserslautern University spin-off to market leader in 30 years. After its foundation in 1988, Wipotec established itself as a global manufacturer for industrial weighing and inspection solutions. Today, more than 1000 Wipotec employees develop and produce world famous weighing systems at one of Rhineland Palatinate’s most important industrial locations.
Open House
More than 6,000 visitors get a look behind the scenes. Many attractions, product demonstrations, music and great entertainment for children made for an unforgettable experience.
Wipotec Show Truck
as a replacement for canceled trade fairs due to Covid-19. The subsidiary in Singapore is founded. Opening of the Wipotec-Academy.
New branches
Opening of new branches in Mexico, Singapore and Australia. Wipotec continues to be the fastest growing medium-sized company in the region. 1200 employees, 850 of them in Kaiserslautern, generated a turnover of €160 million in 2021.
New construction phase
The academy, which was completed in 2020, is currently building urgently needed machinery for the pharmaceutical industry (Corona vaccines). With an additional 10,000 sqm from three newly planned construction phases, Wipotec will grow to 48,000 sqm of production space.
Reduction of CO2 emissions by 97 %
Wipotec's has an uncompromising stand about its energy strategy, focusing entirely on renewable sources. What started initially as a personal interest for CEO Theo Düppre has evolved into a successful story. The system incorporates photovoltaics, solar thermal, geothermal, waste heat, and rainwater heat exchangers. Recently, a substantial liquid-based battery was added to the mix. Ongoing plans include the integration of wind turbines and superconductor technology to further reduce CO2 emissions by 2025.
Wipotec Foundation Established: Düppre Invests in Future and Education
With the establishment of the “Wipotec Foundation – Margit and Theo Düppre” in October 2024, Theo Düppre is not only securing the future of his life’s work, but also making a strong statement about social responsibility. The foundation is passionately committed to promoting science, research, and education. Düppre is especially dedicated to inspiring children and young people to explore technology and the natural sciences early on—an investment in a knowledge-driven and innovative future.
As a new shareholder of WIPOTEC GmbH, the foundation remains true to its guiding principle: Sharing knowledge, shaping the future.
What tells you more about us than a list of customers?
Sustainable – of course!
This has always been a given for us so we don’t intend to make a big deal of it. All we will say is this: We have always followed up our ideas with action. So, around 70 % of the production site’s requirements are supplied from its own alternative energy sources such as solar (own solar park). For example, we heat almost 18,000 square meters of floors with geothermal energy from a geothermal energy plant that we operate on our company site. In the summer, this same system ensures optimum operating temperatures and cools the office buildings and production halls. And we are as ambitious now as we were when we started out.
E-mobility – shared happiness
We think that e-mobility is still used far too rarely. For this reason, we extended our fleet of vehicles by a station with two charging bays and of course the appropriate vehicle – a Smart car. Supplied with renewable electricity from our nearby solar park, it takes our colleagues quietly from A to B. And because we think that shared happiness is twice the happiness, we have also provided the University of Kaiserslautern with an electric vehicle too. We believe that if we are already doing research together on the topic of e-mobility, then everyone should start on the same footing.
Offspring
A big heart for technology – and children!
We are proud that since 2014 we have had the first company-owned day care center for children in Kaiserslautern. For us, social responsibility is not just a buzzword but something that we should put into practice. A total of 55 children, including children under two and children with disabilities, attend the inclusive day care center and are cared for by a team of professionals. Our commitment, however, does not stop at very young children: we also like to participate in charitable and community-supported sports events and we support educational projects in schools and universities. Is Wipotec on your list of dream employers? Then just take a look at all the things we can do for your kids at our day care center. See way.
Talent promotion – of course!
As a medium-sized company, we are particularly interested in the next generation. Our “Wipotec Talents” program incorporates regional commitment in the talent promotion: whether that means exclusive sponsorship of the U19 Bundesliga performance squad “Team Wipotec” of the Rhineland-Palatinate cycling association, or providing gifted students with grants as part of the Deutschlandstipendium, a National Scholarship Program, and the financing of MINT school programs. It’s a cause close to all our hearts. And if it increases the number of people who become enthusiastic about math (M), IT (I), natural sciences (N) and technology (T), then in our eyes it’s the best way to attract young people. Has this made you curious? Then just take a look at the specially created information area.