Andreas Widl is not a person whose courage could be denied. The internationally active valve manufacturer Samson AG, whose CEO is Widl, is investing at least 250 million euros in the relocation of its factory from the previous headquarters in Frankfurt to Offenbach on the opposite side of the Main. That alone is a risk, it is by far the largest investment that the company has made in its more than hundred-year history.
But in addition to the costs for a prestigious project, which should result in nothing less than a lighthouse project for the region in the form of a completely new factory, as Widl says, the CEO also dares to make other forecasts far ahead, or to put it another way: The Falling height when his promises don’t come true is high. Widl says that the relocation of the company, which was founded in 1907 and employs 4,500 people worldwide, will push the company beyond the limits of growth, which it has now reached in Frankfurt.
