2014 – Pfeiffer Convention celebrates 150 years anniversary

Patrick Heyd (General Manager Projects and Sales) opened the event with a warm welcome to the 200 guests from 35 countries and led the audience through the Pfeiffer Convention on 8–9 May 2014. The 150^th anniversary was cele­brated at the Gartenschau Convention Centre in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

The CEO and Commercial Director, Gerold Keune, looked back on 150 years of innovation, when, in 1864 Jacob Pfeiffer Sr.’s two sons Karl and Jacob founded Gebr. Pfeiffer, which today is still a family-owned company and which was boosted by the commercial application, based on a British patent for wind...