The allsafe chronicle - This is allsafe. What makes us ...

Founded by Erik Jungfalk

In Heidelberg in 1964, the Dane Erik Jungfalk founded Erik Jungfalk & Co. GmbH, primarily to manufacture roll containers.

Hello Karl, hello Engen!

Karl Koller took over the company in 1977, which had been thrown off track after the death of its founder Erik Jungfalk in 1970. Now managed by Karl Koller, Erik Jungfalk & Co. GmbH (renamed ANCRA JUNGFALK GmbH 5 years later) moved to Engen, a small community near the Hegau volcanoes and Lake Constance, to which we remain loyal to this day.

Over the hill with quality

Karl Koller had managed to securely set up the company since his entry as managing partner: One milestone was certainly the certification according to ISO 9001 in 1995. With this quality management tool, he was years ahead of other companies. Another milestone was passing the 10 million euro turnover mark with a staff of 45 in 1996.

A new era begins

When Detlef Lohmann joined as managing partner (MBI) in 1999 and replaced Karl Koller, the later production company and globally active supplier of load restraints was still a dealer. This changed in 2000: we became a producer and supplier for OEM Automobil. Production facilities had to be set up, multi-shift work introduced, the organisation of the company changed. A mighty leap into the future. What remained the same in the new era was that Detlef Lohmann, like Karl Koller before him, also distributed the mail in the company. Good traditions remain good traditions.

Allsafe for the first time, profit participation certificates for the first time, ...

We changed our first name: ANCRA JUNGFALK GmbH became allsafe JUNGFALK GmbH & Co.KG. More incisive was the opportunity for employees to acquire allsafe profit participation certificates for the first time. For the employees, this was an attractive and profitable opportunity to become co-owners of the company, which now also ventured into the air for the first time: In 2004, we were approved by the German Federal Aviation Authority (LBA) as a Part 21G manufacturing company and Part 145 maintenance organisation.

And it works even in bad weather

Those were two financially turbulent years. With the global financial crisis, a stormy bad weather front hit us: from 28.8 million euros turnover in 2008, it went down to 20 million euros in 2009. In the middle of this financial bad weather, we introduced a new salary model including employee profit sharing in 2009. Payout per head, up to 25 % of the previous year's profit before tax (EBT). We thought: If such a model only works in good weather, we might as well leave it alone. The model was a logical consequence of our concept of cooperation as a performance community. And just how strong this community idea is became apparent when we were left out in the cold due to the decline in turnover: In February 2009, we asked the team for a voluntary salary retention. The response to this request was overwhelming. And it carried us through the crisis without losing a single employee; we were even able to welcome two new colleagues (2008: 106 employees, 2009: 108 employees). Soon the salary retention was settled, and for the first time for 2009 there was the profit sharing on top of the salary. allsafe is all-weather.

... and I still think, can't be

His first book "...und mittags geh ich heim" had only been on the market for a few weeks. Detlef Lohmann was standing at the allsafe stand at the IAA Commercial Vehicle Show in Hanover in September 2012 when his mobile phone rang. "Can't be!" That was his first reaction when his caller told him: "...and at noon I go home" has won the prize for "Management Book of the Year". But that could be. Just as it could be that Detlef Lohmann had landed a Spiegel bestseller. Not suddenly a princess, but suddenly a bestselling author!

Even more drastic was the preparation of the first CO2 balance with Scope 1, 2 & 3 in 2012: "If I had known ...", says Detlef Lohmann in retrospect: "I underestimated the impact of this balance. I thought, let's do it, it's good for marketing ... But the insights we gained from this assessment changed everything. That was the day allsafe was born as a BLUE PIONEER, for a new approach to business.

In the spotlight

And the Oscar goes ... No, we didn't win an Oscar - why not? In 2015, the film project "Augenhöhe" (eye level) about pioneers of modern working environments was presented to the public, and allsafe was part of it. It was exciting to have the camera team on site. Being in the spotlight for the film was definitely more nerve-wracking than being in the spotlight for the first environmental audit: It was simply a pleasure to have what we were already doing confirmed. ISO 14001 - Take 1, in the can!

We are pioneers - er, trailblazers.

We were one of the first JobRad customers and offer all our employees in Engen and Fürstenwalde the so-called allRad - the possibility to lease an e-bike from JobRad. A decision-making aid to leave the car behind and cycle to work.

We have nothing to give away

A few years earlier, we had already started donating the budget intended for Christmas gifts for our customers (sorry, dear customers!). Then the idea came up to give our donations a more sustainable framework: So we established the allsafe foundation as a sub-foundation of the Engener Bürgerstiftung co-founded by Detlef Lohmann and paid in the basic fund in 2017. The income from the allsafe foundation is spent on charitable purposes - calculators for children in poverty, for example, or support for the Repair Café in Engen.

Allsafe goes Future

We start working concretely on all:service and present intelligent, hybrid solutions for load securing in the fleet at the IAA (the smart blue one ...). Today, all:change is firmly anchored in the allsafe portfolio and more and more customers are joining in to give load securing an eternal life.