28.07.2025 Spangler wins the “Bayerischer Mittelstandspreis” (Bavarian SME Award) 2025
28.07.2025 Spangler wins the “Bayerischer Mittelstandspreis” (Bavarian SME Award) 2025
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28.07.2025, Töging. The family-owned company Spangler was honored with the prestigious Bavarian SME Award on Friday in Munich. It’s not the first major award for the Töging-based firm.
SPANGLER GMBH received the renowned Bavarian SME Award 2025 on Friday in Munich. The award recognizes outstanding medium-sized enterprises that excel through innovation, resilience, sustainability, and employer attractiveness – and this year, SPANGLER is among the distinguished recipients.
Technology that moves people forward
As an owner-managed company specializing in automation solutions, SPANGLER is based in Dietfurt an der Altmühl, Bavaria. With a strong commitment to technology, progress, and responsibility, the company has demonstrated for decades how medium-sized businesses can operate at the highest level – down-to-earth yet future-focused.
What once began with control systems is today a digitally connected technology company with around 150 employees – specializing in forward-looking control and digitalization solutions for a wide range of industrial sectors. SPANGLER networks industrial systems worldwide, enables secure remote access, conducts virtual commissioning using digital twins, integrates AI into manufacturing processes, and ensures IT security. Its solutions are used in key industries such as environmental technology, green hydrogen production, the food and pharmaceutical sectors, and the recycling and raw materials industries. The portfolio also includes customer-specific test systems and testing stands for rail transport. Together with innovative medium-sized partners – so-called hidden champions – SPANGLER is actively shaping the industry of tomorrow.
“Doing business with values“– A Bavarian recipe for success
“This award is a confirmation of our approach: we do business not only successfully, but also responsibly – for our employees, our customers, and our region,” emphasizes the Managing Director Tina Lambert of SPANGLER GMBH. “This award honors exactly what drives us every day – to show that medium-sized businesses, through dedicated employees, lived values, and shared goals, can unleash tremendous power for innovation, stability, and social responsibility.”
Jury highlights capacity for ongoing development
The jury particularly praised SPANGLER’s ability to anticipate market changes at an early stage and to consistently invest in the further development of processes and products. Future viability is seen as the result of a holistic process that not only includes the latest technology but also actively involves employees in developing new solutions.
The company’s commitment to sustainability and social responsibility was also recognized. Targeted use of resources, educational partnerships, and a vibrant corporate culture with a focus on long-term qualification and training of the employees underline the company’s exemplary role.
About the “Bayerischer Mittelstandspreis”
The Bavarian SME Award is presented annually under the patronage of the President of the Bavarian State Parliament and the Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs. Its aim is to honor medium-sized companies that stand out through excellent management, a spirit of innovation, and social responsibility.
More information: www.der-bayerische-mittelstandspreis.de
Photos: Alexander von Spreti, Munich
About Spangler:
SPANGLER Automation, based in Töging in the Altmühltal region, currently employs 150 people and has been a reliable partner to the national and international machinery and plant engineering sectors for over 40 years.
More than half of the systems produced are exported worldwide. This medium-sized family-owned company designs and plans plant automation systems, programs control technology, and manufactures control systems for a wide range of industries, including environmental technology, renewable energy, agriculture, construction, food, automotive, and the raw materials industry.
In addition, SPANGLER handles the commissioning and after-sales service of the systems.