CHOCOTECH GmbH

CHOCOTECH – Quality and innovations since 1920

In 1920 the company was founded in Wernigerode  as “Lauenstein & Co. KG” by Mr. Otto Lauenstein. In 1930 the company already secured a world wide customer base with the production of the first chocolate tempering machine world-wide. Only nine years later the 95 workers had reached the next impressing aim: 750 of those machines were sold.

In 1990 it was rearranged under the name CHOCOTECH Wernigerode GmbH. After this successful restructuring Mr. Helmut Sollich became the owner of CHOCOTECH.  Today CHOCOTECH belongs to the Sollich group.

Since 1990 the company has grown: A big step was building up the CHOCOTECH CANDY DIVISION in the year 2000 after the acquirement of the Company Ernst, a manufacture of cookers and aerators for candy products. Since then CHOCOTECH has been very successful with a wide variety of national and international candy manufacturers.