Back to the 80s: Setting the Stage for Today’s Campus
35 years ago, construction work began on the “New Plant” in Göttingen, today's Sartorius Campus. The groundbreaking ceremony by Horst Sartorius on August 25, 1989, is documented on film.
At the end of the 1980s, the old Sartorius site at Weender Landstraße no longer offered any scope for expansion due to a lack of space and stricter environmental regulations. To enable long-term growth, the company decided to build a new production site on a greenfield at Otto-Brenner-Straße in the Grone industrial estate. On August 25, 1989, Horst Sartorius, then Chairman of the Supervisory Board and owner, symbolically broke ground: the beginning of today's Sartorius Campus.
Three buildings were initially planned for the first construction phase of the “New Plant”: one for the production of balances, one for the manufacture of filter membranes and one for operating technology. The latter is the only building that still exists today in its original form and is a reminder of the beginnings – after several phases of expansion, it stands in an environment that would hardly have been imaginable 35 years ago.
