Carsten Schmidt and Martin Hücking took over responsibility for SGB GmbH as the new managing directors. Jost Berg is taking his retirement after 36 years, 35 of which as managing director.
Jost Berg, who is celebrating his 65th birthday this year, is the son of company founder Dr. Fritz Berg, who founded SGB in Siegen in 1962. This business operated as Sicherungsgerätebau GmbH up until 2010, and Dr. Fritz Berg revolutionised environmental and water protection in the storage of water-polluting liquids with his patented vacuum solutions for leak monitoring in underground tanks. After joining the company in 1989, Jost Berg took over as managing director in 1990. Since then, many other innovative leak monitoring solutions have been added – not only for tanks, but also for pipelines. Today, around 480,000 SGB leak detectors and countless leak detection probes are monitoring double-walled tanks and double-walled pipes, single-walled tanks with leak protection lining and dome, and inspection chambers of all kinds all over the world: at filling stations, in refineries, in the chemical industry, in the food industry, on heating oil tank installations in domestic boiler rooms, in data centers, in ex-areas and in ex-systems, on emergency power supply systems, in high-vacuum systems, on hydrogen and LNG applications and much more.
Jost Berg says: ‘True to our motto ‘For a clean and unpolluted environment’, the company’s aim from the outset has been to develop and produce safe and reliable environmental protection systems, while at the same time protecting the people directly and indirectly affected by these systems. I have put a lot of passion and commitment in, experienced the ups and downs of the market, met innovative, technically skilled and highly interesting people, travelled the world and, yes, made the odd bad investment.’
Jost Berg will be succeeded by Carsten Schmidt and Martin Hücking in dual leadership. Since 2022, SGB GmbH has been part of the globally operating ELAFLEX Group, one of the leading international specialists for refueling technology and safe connections for handling sensitive liquids and gases.
Stefan Kunter, speaker of the management board of ELAFLEX HIBY GmbH, says: ‘With Carsten Schmidt and Martin Hücking, we have gained two competent experts with experience in their specialist areas to manage SGB. We are looking forward to a good and successful cooperation and are confident about the future of our companies. I am very pleased and grateful that Jost Berg will continue to support us as a senior consultant in an advisory capacity in the future.’
