Pfungstadt brewery saved | Darmstadt

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The new owner, the plant manufacturer Lauer from the neighboring Seeheim youth center, wants to more than halve the brewing capacity in Pfungstadt – and is planning 30 fewer jobs.

The Pfungstädter Brewery can continue to produce beer under a new owner. The way for the restart with the plant manufacturer Lauer from Seeheim-Jugenheim in southern Hesse is clear, said the brewery in Pfungstadt. The creditors unanimously agreed on Tuesday to the insolvency plan that management had worked out together with a restructuring firm. The company can now leave the protective shield proceedings without debt. The Darmstadt district court has also already confirmed the insolvency plan. It is planned to keep 46 of the 78 full-time positions. The traditional company announced that all of the creditors’ claims had been met.

The future brewery owner Uwe Lauer, who also produces systems for breweries and comes from Pfungstadt, wants to invest in the modernization of the Pfungstadt brewery. The brewery initially did not provide any information about the amount of the investment.

In the historic buildings of the private brewery founded in 1831, Lauer plans to set up a brewery restaurant with a craft beer brewery and a beer garden. A new building with a modern filling plant and a logistics center is also to be built in the Pfungstadt industrial area. The planned brewing capacity of around 200,000 hectoliters will be well below the previous capacity of 450,000 hectoliters.

The decision is a “milestone in the company’s history”, said managing director Stefan Seibold, who now assumes that the brewery will be able to restart in December.

With the general decline in beer sales, the company had already got into financial difficulties several months ago. In June the brewery went into protective shield proceedings. The brewery site at Pfungstädter Bahnhof has now been sold to the Mannheim entrepreneur Daniel Hopp and the project developer Conceptaplan. You want to build apartments on the site.

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