First-time entrant Gerhard Schubert GmbH has won the prestigious "Factory of the Year 2018" award. Set up in 1992, the contest is open to companies with 100 employees or more headquartered in Germany, Austria or Switzerland . Family owned, Gerhard Schubert is a market leader in top-loading modularly-designed, robot-based packaging machines. According to the judges, the company stood out from the other competitors in the science and business category by ‘thinking ahead in a way that is very innovative, the very high-performance indicators and the way it is driving digitalisation forward with a clear strategy'. Congratulations to Gerhard Schubert GmbH from PlasticFinder!