MiCROTEC in history

MiCROTEC was founded on 20th March 1980 by Paul Durst, Hansjörg Thaler and Federico Giudiceandrea. The first headquarters were 3 rooms in the Thaler sawing plant administration building in Brixen, Italy.

As early as May, MiCROTEC presented its microprocessor-based technology at the Interbimal fair in Milan and got its first order through the Damiani company for a board measuring system for batch image control. This system was in use until 2002 and was then replaced by MiCROTEC’s UNIPAC controller.
Again in the first year, the company took on its first employee, the electronics expert Lorenzo Castagnaro, who still plays an important role at MiCROTEC today. Soon afterwards, Silvio Danuser was engaged as an external adviser for software development.

In the first year MiCROTEC also developed systems for colour recognition and weight measurement of fruit. The colour sensor developed by MiCROTEC was a standard for the colour recognition of fruit for years. 
For Prinoth MiCROTEC developed the first drive-by-wire steering column in the world for tracked vehicles.
In 1982 Paul Durst had a fatal accident while returning from a customer. For a while MiCROTEC lost its direction, and it was only possible to overcome this thanks to the will for success of all those involved. Silvio Danuser then stepped in to become a partner of the company.

In 1984 MiCROTEC had to face its second loss when Hansjörg Thaler left the company. In the same year MiCROTEC moved into new office premises with combined workshops in the south of Brixen.
After this short period, MiCROTEC was already known beyond the borders of South Tyrol and had customers in several countries.
In 1987 MiCROTEC bought some land and began to build its own plant which the then 15 employees moved into in 1990. Thanks to the generous amount of room, the business received a further boost and its rate of growth accelerated. In just two years, the number of staff mushroomed to reach 50. 
 
The collaboration with the Springer machine factory stipulated in 1983 was then extended and developed into a strategic cooperation which came the full circle in 2000 with Springer’s participation in MiCROTEC. Together they develope and build high performance sorting systems for log and boards Europe-wide.
In 1998 MiCROTEC became the majority shareholder  of the spin-off  "SeeLab" out of a development project by professors Ruggero Frezza and Pietro Perona on the topic of image processing at the University of Padua. Today MiCROTEC BiOVISION is located in Mestre near Venice. In the same year Prof. Perona was called to chair the world-famous John Moore Laboratory of Caltech image processing in Pasadena.
The sawmill automation department of the Keba company taken over in 1999 was to become MiCROTEC’s Austrian subsidiary in Linz.

In 2001 the expansion led to the purchase of a further company building near the headquarters.

In 2002 MiCROTEC took over Grecon’s "Scantec" strength sorting department in Allfeld/D. 
 
2008 on the 3rd July the subsidiary company MiCROTEC INDUSTRIES North America was founded.