{"id":79320,"date":"2025-03-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sapigmbh.com\/55-years-of-sapi\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T10:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:40:57","slug":"55-years-of-sapi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sapigmbh.com\/en\/55-years-of-sapi\/","title":{"rendered":"55 years of SAPI: from family business to plant manufacturer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2025, SAPI celebrates <strong>55 years<\/strong>. In 1970, <strong>Klaus Fertl<\/strong> founded the company with a clear goal: blasting technology that is robust, efficient and durable. Today <strong>Marcel Fertl<\/strong> runs SAPI in the second generation, and SAPI is still entirely family-owned.<\/p>\n<h2>Milestones from 55 years<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1970:<\/strong> Klaus Fertl founds the company<\/li>\n<li><strong>1979:<\/strong> move into the company buildings in N\u00f6rdlingen with a 3,200 m\u00b2 production hall<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989:<\/strong> patent for a \u201cdevice in sandblasting lines\u201d and development of the SANASA wet suction turbine<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998:<\/strong> move into the new company building in M\u00f6ttingen, 10,000 m\u00b2 site and 4,400 m\u00b2 built-up area<\/li>\n<li><strong>2019:<\/strong> launch of the SAPI online shop<\/li>\n<li><strong>2020:<\/strong> 50 years of SAPI and opening of the branch in Turkey<\/li>\n<li><strong>2023:<\/strong> the first robot-assisted sandblasting container, SAPI ROBOBlast\u2122, and the launch of the BASIC ONE line<\/li>\n<li><strong>2024:<\/strong> BASIC TWO extends the container line. In the same year, we said goodbye to our company founder.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2025:<\/strong> BASIC ONE PLUS and market entry in Kazakhstan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>A group of companies from Bavaria<\/h2>\n<p>The family business in Bavaria has grown into a group of companies: with its own production in M\u00f6ttingen, SAPI Hungary (Orkan Kft.) in Hungary and SAPI T\u00fcrkiye. You can find the full story with pictures from the company archive in our <a href=\"https:\/\/sapigmbh.com\/en\/our-history\/\">company history<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klaus Fertl founded SAPI in 1970. 55 years later, the family company from M\u00f6ttingen builds sandblasting halls, sandblasting containers and painting plants for customers throughout Europe and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>55 years of SAPI: from family business to plant manufacturer - SAPI GmbH<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"55 years of SAPI: founded in 1970 by Klaus Fertl, now run by Marcel Fertl in the second generation. 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