Ziegelstraße 29 | 09661 Hainichen

Founded

1886

Milestones

1913 Relocation from Thalstraße Hainichen to the current company building | 1972 Expropriation | 1992 Reprivatisation | 1996 First certification (at that time according to DIN EN ISO 9002) as one of the first companies in the industry in East Germany | 2021 Certification according to the European Medical Device Regulation (MDR) = Regulation (EU) 2017/745

Owner/management/leadership

Partners Dipl. Ing. Eckart Rüdiger and Dipl. Ing. Verena Kermes, Management: Ulrike Kermes M.A.

Location(s)

Hainichen

Workplaces 

9 

Production/research focus, product range

Compresses / gauze | swabs | tamponades / tampons | bandages / dressings | cotton wool | hygiene and incontinence articles | high-bleached cellulose / unbleached cellulose | special dressings.

Company philosophy

“The customer has always set the standard for our quality. Serving medicine since 1886.”

The bandage manufacturer KERMA is the oldest company in Hainichen. Ulrike Kermes, great-great-granddaughter of company founder Friedrich Max Kermes, has been managing the company in the fifth generation since 2012. Around 220 different items make up the product portfolio today, of which between 50 and 20,000 are produced each year - some of them by hand. Some of the items are only available in Hainichen. Innovations in handling make them popular even in Singapore. In its 135th anniversary year, KERMA is one of the first manufacturers worldwide to be certified in accordance with the latest European Medical Device Regulation (MDR).