Facts & Figures

Founded in 1919.
Headquarters in Bad Neustadt/Germany.
13 Production Sites in 7 Countries on 3 Continents.
Active in 6 Business Sectors and Market Leader in a Number of Them.
Worldwide Supplier to Customers in the Automotive Industry.

Management

Martin Büchs

Studied Business Mathematics at the University of Bayreuth, Mechatronics in Darmstadt and General Management at the Bavarian Elite Academy. During the first six years of his professional career, he worked for Reuters in Frankfurt and London and earned the title as Chartered Financial Analyst. Since 2006, he has performed various positions at JOPP. Since 2008, he is Managing Director of the JOPP Group, responsible for the Business Units of Machining & Powder Metal Technology, Electronics Manufacturing and Automation Solutions.

Richard Diem

Studied Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich. During his professional career, he gained extensive experience at renowned companies such as Webasto, Northern Automotive Systems Ltd. and FTE Automotive GmbH. Since 2018, he is Managing Director of the JOPP Group, responsible for the Business Units of Mechatronics & Driver Interface Systems and Lubrication & Cooling Systems.

Values and Principles

JOPP wants to remain a family-run company in the long run and continue to make decisions irrespective of financial investors and financiers.

To this end, both products and production procedures need to be continuously advanced. It is the company's aim to offer solutions to customers which are valuable, reliable and innovative. Profitability is therefore JOPP's ultimate objective in its corporate actions. JOPP is convinced that this aim can only be achieved with competent and efficient employees who take on responsibility and work together beyond hierarchical and departamental boundaries, both within the company and with customers, suppliers and other partners.

JOPP regards a culture of recognition and appreciation as important, especially in view of the pressure on costs, deadlines and quality from main customers in the automotive industry.

JOPP considers itself to have an advantage over competitors with regard to flexibility and time to market and wishes to maintain these factors with minimum bureaucracy and flat hierarchies. Nevertheless, customers can rely on standardized core processes which match a modern quality management. Through responsible and sustainable economic management, JOPP wants to permanently strengthen its reliability. This also includes consideration of the concerns of employees, their families as well as of natural resources. 

JOPP has a structurised system of objectives and key metrics, for which employees are involved during defintion and achievement. In order to achieve a culture of appreciative leadership, JOPP has leadership principles which had been developed commonly.