Development into an international competence center
A group of entrepreneurs founded TUP Ltd Textile Processing and Upholstery with twelve employees in 1992.
The managing partners Ulrich Hattendorf (+2009) and Gerd Sommer extended and managed the group of companies
decisively over a period of 17 years. It evolved to a recognized and efficient company in vehicle interior fittings.
Already five years later nearly 90 employees were on board. Well-filled order books and a strategic product range
development lead to continuous increases of turnover. The profits resulting from that development were invested
in the company's productivity from which our customers benefit to this day. All components manufactured are
dispatched "just in time" to the German and European automobile industry and their system suppliers, without exception.
All sites of the TUP Group are certified according to the directives of ISO TS 16949 and ISO 9001.
In November 1996, the new company headquaters was inaugurated with an extensive production hall
with modern warehousing and the administration at the Markneukirchen industrial estate.
Only a year later, the new production hall for the central sewing and cutting was put into operation,
along with an additional warehouse that was built as a result of the storage needs of cloth and leather.
The same year the Czech subsidiary company started first productions in Cheb, which is situated
only a few kilometres behind the border.
In 2010, the general meeting passed the resolution to appoint a supervisory board for the TUP group.
Over the last few years, the Czech subsidiary TUP Bohemia s.r.o. has become the group's
service provider for well known European automobile brands in the field of sewing and upholstery
and for a wide range of interior articles. Furthermore, the production range was extended to
produce interiors for railways and aeroplanes. Additionally, high-quality seating furniture are is manufactured
in small batch series. The headquaters has found an appropriate site in the modern and recently
built complex of buildings in the Eger/Cheb industrial estate.
There, possibilities for expansion are given.
The second stage of construction was completed by the end of 2010.
The next stage of construction will probably follow in 2013.
Cheb-Haje is another manufacturing site in the Czech area.
In both production locations combined the TUP Bohemia employs more than 200 employees total.
Being a direct subsidiary of the Markneukirchen headquaters, TUP Ukraine started the production of headrestraints in September 2004.
Today, TUP Ukraine is equiped with a large, modern, high standard machinery that enables the site to
manufacture various products of vehicle interior fittings. More than 120 employees manufacture the demanding products for interiors.
The company is situated in Nove Davydkovo near Mukatschewo in Transcarpathia,
only a few kilometres from the Hungarian and Slovak border. The site is certified according to ISO TS 16949 and ISO 9001.