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Reinhard Binder
Reinhard Binder, born 1954, is an Austrian timber industrialist who owns and leads binderholz GmbH, a family wood group in Fügen, Tyrol, with €3.549 billion revenue in 2022.
Reinhold Würth (Würth Group)
Reinhold Würth, born 1935, is a German entrepreneur who took over his father's screw wholesale business at 19 and built it into the Würth Group.
Robert Richter (film engineer)
Robert Richter (1899–1972) was a German engineer who co-founded ARRI, formally Arnold & Richter Cine Technik, with his schooldays partner August Arnold in Munich in 1917.
Rubiralta Giralt family
The Rubiralta Giralt family of Barcelona founded and wholly owns Werfen, the world leader in coagulation diagnostics; José María Rubiralta started the business as Izasa in 1966.
Stihl family
The Stihl family (German: Familie Stihl) is the owner family of STIHL, the Waiblingen-based maker of the world's best-selling chainsaw brand, founded by Andreas Stihl in 1926.
Thomas Herrmann
Thomas Herrmann is a German engineer who led ultrasonic welding firm Herrmann Ultraschalltechnik as CEO from 2007 to 2026, winning EY's 2021 Entrepreneur Of The Year award.
va-Q-tec AG
va-Q-tec AG is a German insulation technology company founded in Würzburg in 2001, known for passive thermal containers that keep goods cold for days without energy.
Viessmann family
The Viessmann family is a German family of industrial entrepreneurs who owned and led the heating-technology maker Viessmann from 1917 until selling its climate division to Carrier in 2024.
Walter Sumetzberger
Walter Sumetzberger is an Austrian business executive, managing director and sole shareholder of Ing. Sumetzberger GmbH, a Vienna family firm and leading maker of pneumatic tube systems, since 2023.
Wilo
Wilo, formally WILO SE, is a German pump manufacturer headquartered in Dortmund, founded in 1872 as a copper and brass works and now about 90 percent owned by the founding Opländer family's Wilo-Foundation.
Zsolt Felcsuti
Zsolt Felcsuti (born 1971) is a Hungarian industrialist, CEO and owner of MPF Industry Group, a machinery and heating-equipment group he co-founded with his father in 1994.