Helmut Zepf Medizintechnik Gmbh
Zepf has manufactured dental instruments since 1921. This endows us with a wealth of experience acquired over generations. This is not only the knowledge to manufacture products in all their facets, but also an understanding for applying instruments necessary to provide you, the user, with tools whose design always follows function. Function, ergonomics, safety as well as time savings are aspects that have to be considered when we develop and produce medical devices in compliance with all the relevant regulations. We stay in contact with users across the world. Through our partners in many countries, we have established a close bond of cooperation, which means we keep our finger on the pulse of the times and we know when new technologies are ready for application. With Zepf instruments you receive modern instruments that make your work easier and benefit your patients.
Company details
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Medical Equipment
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Year Founded:
- 1921
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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Always One Step Ahead of the Market
PROFILE AND MISSION
- Helmut Zepf Medizintechnik GmbH goes its own way.
- Zepf has its own character. We determine our way.
- We can’t overtake in other’s footsteps.
- We seize opportunities without misjudging risks.
- We act confidently. Here we have the fighting spirit, the creativity, the perseverance and the courage for change.
WE CREATE VALUE
- We meet our customers’ demands.
- With our products, our service and our reliability we drive your success.
- For our employees we create jobs from which they derive individual success and satisfaction.
WHAT WE DO, WE DO RIGHT
- We apply our knowledge, our investment potential and our management capacities where they are most effective in the long term.
- We don’t do everything. We concentrate on our core competencies where we are among the best.
- We also offer these services to others. Everything else we do ourselves, as long as it increases our success.
- In Germany, we concentrate on innovative and complex technologies and manufacturing processes.
AT HOME IN MODERN DENTISTRY
- We consistently implement what is important to the user.
- We facilitate the user’s work with innovative and smart solutions.
- We offer a selected range of instruments and services to meet the highest demands.
- Our products are characterised by long service life, a high degree of robustness, user-friendliness, high performance and safety.
WE ARE ALWAYS ONE STEP AHEAD OF THE MARKET
- We are fast and set the course.
- We grow long-term, in a qualified way, but not at any price.
- We look out for our competitors, but not out of fear.
- In Germany, we work to achieve our leading position.
- We are developing a qualified dealer network in all the important countries.
WE PLACE DEMANDS ON BUSINESS PARTNERS
- We select our business partners carefully. We only want the best.
- We are competent and reliable, individual and flexible towards them.
- Performance and reciprocity determine the mutual relationship.
WE DON’T DEMAND ANYTHING WE DON’T DO OURSELVES
- Our management orientates its activities towards this mission.
- All our managers are role models for our employees. They take responsibility and lead their teams in a goal-oriented manner. They stand out by virtue of their commitment and willingness to successfully master all challenges.
- Our employees are loyal to Helmut Zepf. They are committed, work efficiently and quality-oriented, and are prepared to develop themselves on an ongoing basis.
- Our employees are moulded by shared values. We are straightforward, and we respect and help each other.
- Our common task is to nurture and implement this corporate mission.
Quality is Plannable
- Quality for us is not just lip service.
- Helmut Zepf Medizintechnik GmbH maintains a certified quality management system in accordance with DIN EN ISO 13485:2016 and EN ISO 13485:2016 + AC:2016. Our risk management is based on ISO 14971 with application of the Medical Devices Act (MPG).
- We also include international guidelines in our quality management program, such as those of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
- Being the “best” you can be every day is what management demands of itself and of its employees.
- Our customers are entitled to a functioning instrument, which is our sole raison d’être as a manufacturer of medical products.
- Should something go astray, we take care of it – quickly, professionally and in a customer-oriented way.
- That’s a promise!
History
Craftsmanship Since 1921
His specially developed surgical methods made him world-famous – Professor Ferdinand Sauerbruch. As a surgeon, he had very clear ideas about the characteristics and quality of his surgical instruments. And in this respect, it was far from easy to always meet Sauerbruch’s high standards.
The famous surgeon turned to the instrument maker Zepf in Seitingen, still in its infancy back then, to realise his desired surgical instruments and special prototypes for arm and leg prostheses. Isidor Zepf, who founded the company in 1921, and his daughter Rosa (probably one of the first female surgical instrument makers) were able to manufacture these products according to the wishes and ideas of the Berlin professor. The cooperation, which was really quite unusual at that time, formed the basis for the successful development of Zepf in Seitingen. And it proves what is still a matter of course for Zepf today: to be able to implement innovations in the field of medical instruments at short notice and and to develop them into exemplary solutions in cooperation with renowned doctors. From its humble beginnings, the cottage industry began to grow to meet an ever-increasing demand for medical instruments.
Over the decades to come, Helmut Zepf senior and Helmut Zepf junior shaped the company into a leading manufacturer of dental instruments in Germany.
Today in the fourth generation and headed by Patrick Zepf we are still a family business. Our decisions are still based on strict adherence with the basic standards of Zepf’s quality criteria and a profound readiness to innovate. A family needs a home. For Zepf it is clearly Seitingen-Oberflacht, which has been home since 1921.
Here we can build on the technical expertise of our employees many of whom have remained loyal to the company for decades, because it is precisely this part of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany that is known to be the home of a proverbial spirit of inventors and problem solvers. Tuttlingen and the surrounding region has asserted itself as the world center of medical technology to the very day, not least because of the high qualification of well-trained specialists. Companies like Helmut Zepf have typified this distinction for over one century.
We remain true to our mission and see ourselves as a driver of innovation. We can’t overtake in other’s footsteps.
We consciously accept that a development can sometimes fail.
Our reward comes from loyal customers who appreciate our innovations.
We would like to express our sincerest thanks for the trust that has been placed in us.
Quality Is Plannable
- Quality for us is not just lip service.
- Helmut Zepf Medizintechnik GmbH maintains a certified quality management system in accordance with DIN EN ISO 13485:2016 and EN ISO 13485:2016 + AC:2016. Our risk management is based on ISO 14971 with application of the Medical Devices Act (MPG).
- We also include international guidelines in our quality management program, such as those of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
- Being the “best” you can be every day is what management demands of itself and of its employees.
- Our customers are entitled to a functioning instrument, which is our sole raison d’être as a manufacturer of medical products.
- Should something go astray, we take care of it – quickly, professionally and in a customer-oriented way.
- That’s a promise!
