With the founding of the company in the year 1892, Johann Friedrich Gietz laid the foundation stone of this traditional Swiss family-owned business. In the meantime, the 5th generation have taken over the management. Today, the management team of the Gietz AG consists of 5 team members: Hansjörg Gietz (CEO), Michael Grau (Sales Director), Marcel Gerber (Technical Director), Daniel Sund (Production Director) and Claudia Heer (Finance Manager). It has become almost a family tradition that each Gietz generation develops a new machine model. Our researchers and developers ensure that the latest findings from the global user community and from Gietz‘own research flow continuously into the different machine models.

For decades now, Gietz has concentrated on the four technology fields of foil stamping, embossing, combination foiling and embossing, and hologram transfer. Foil stamping machines from Gietz are recognized by printers worldwide as industry leading products from professionals for professionals. Gietz is also a byword for reliability in the security industry. The Gietz machines are able to fully demonstrate their flexible performance in the application of OVDs on to banknotes, official documents and in the trademark protection field. Gietz has agencies in every continent and in all major industrial countries.

A Gietz is a Gietz. It foil stamps and embosses giving the very highest quality. In order to guarantee this, Gietz carries out its production exclusively in Switzerland. Gietz foil stamping machines are well worth their price. Gietz-machines require a minimum of regular servicing, as the experience of millions of operating hours has been integrated into every machine. For this servicing, you can rely on Gietz and its international partners at all times. This is also the case for the availability of customer service, the rapid arrival of service technicians and the prompt delivery of spare parts. More than 30,000 different articles are available ex-stock. Gietz is there for its clientele, both today and tomorrow.