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TECHNOLOGY Like a marriage
How the Danish brewery group Carlsberg and the Salzgitter subsidiary KHS turned their long business relationship into close cooperation
Carlsberg’s story began when Carl’s father climbed a mountain. Carl was the  ve-year-old o spring of
the Danish brewery owner Jacob Chris- tian Jacobsen (1811 - 1887), and the mountain was actually a hill, Valby Bakke near Copenhagen.  e Carlsberg Brewery that J. C. Jacobsen founded in 1847 was named for his son and the hill. Soon the high ground was the site of a building for which Jacobsen had hired the best archi- tects in the country.
Today Valby lies in the middle of the Copenhagen metropolitan area, and the brewery on the “Bjerg” has grown into the world’s fourth largest brewery group. Today Carlsberg produces 140 brands, such as Tuborg, Elephant Beer, Somersby, Kronenburg 1664, Grimbergen, Holsten, and many more. In addition, the compa- ny maintains the world’s largest depart-
ment for brewery research with a sta  of around 130. J. C. Jacobsen was already interested in utilizing his money and in-  uence for art and science.  e pH scale that is still common today was developed in the Carlsberg Laboratory, founded in 1875.  e later Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr worked here from 1912 to 1914 as a research assistant, and Emil Christian Hansen developed the world’s  rst yeast propagation procedure, a method for yeast production, in 1883.  is is why the yeast used is brewing bears the name Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
For years, Carlsberg has counted on KHS, a Salzgitter AG subsidiary, for delivery of  lling and packaging systems, including when Carlsberg founded the Carlsberg Supply Company (CSC) in 2011.  e independent company bundles, standardizes and coordinates all global
processes related to purchasing, produc- tion, logistics and customer service for the group. CSC chose KHS to supply the  lling systems.  e CEOs of the two com- panies, Peter Ernsting (CSC) and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Niemeyer, signed a long term general agreement on September 18, 2013.
Today, a CEO-level committee meets every six months to coordinate the joint work.  e two sides also cooperate in research and development. CSC allows KHS, like other partners, to test its products directly at Carlsberg. Michael Jakob, VP Group Manufacturing & Technology at CSC, and Ralph Pohl, Executive Vice President Global Account Management KHS, like to use the word “marriage” when describing the rela- tionship between CSC and the Salzgitter subsidiary KHS.
Michael Jakob (CSC, left) on a visit with Ralph Pohl (KHS)
KHS supplies  lling and packaging systems for Carlsberg
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