Ongoing global growth and the constant development and optimisation of production are the objectives for the future, so as to be able to serve our customers swiftly and efficiently in consideration of constantly increasing demands. In doing so, we always keep sustainability in mind.

More than 10 refrigerated trucks as well as carefully selected forwarding companies are continuously on the move in Germany and Europe to supply our customers with Peter Gelhard natural sausage casing products punctually and reliably.

With Eric Gelhard, the third generation is now active in the family business. The son of Arnd Gelhard began his apprenticeship as a wholesale and export merchant in 2018 and went through all of the areas of the business domestically and abroad during this time. He has been supporting the company in his role as Assistant to the Management since 2020.

Cooperation – Construction of a new sorting plant in Shanghai

Takeover of ITI Aps. in Sakskøbing near Copenhagen, Denmark as a sales and warehouse location in Northern Europe ca. 7,500 square metres

Takeover of Kadek Sp. z o.o in Zukowo, Poland as a site for wage labour and sales in Eastern Europe ca. 18,000 square metres

Takeover of Smits I.T.C. in Vlaardingen, Netherlands to support our corporate logistics worldwide ca. 4,000 square metres

Here on Saelzer Strasse, new office complexes, extensive warehouses, cold storage facilities and production halls were built in 1996 which are appropriate for the company’s global orientation.

Peter Gelhard’s son Arnd Gelhard, who also trained in wholesale and external trade, began his training in 1985 and has also worked in each of the company`s departments. In addition to acquiring business skills, both his involvement in the company at home and several intern-ships abroad allowed him to gain the specific expertise required for production and international trade in natural sausage casings. With over 35 years of experience in all of the main business operations, he now manages the entire company together with Peter Gelhard. He has sole responsibility for national sales and for an increasing share of the company’s international trade. He also oversees the entire production operation, both at home and abroad. Arnd Gelhard’s style of management is based on modern methods but still upholds the company’s traditional values.

Peter Gelhard Natural Sausage Casings has been a family business from the beginning and the second generation of Gelhards has been fully involved from training on in their current professional functions. Peter Gelhard’s daughter Petra Gelhard-Fuchs completed business training in wholesale and external trade in 1981, gaining experience in all the relevant departments of company. Today she is Head of Marketing and Communication.

After numerous building expansions to house additional administration, production and storage facilities, the company’s ongoing growth eventually reached its physical limits and the site was relocated to a newly developed industrial estate in Ransbach-Baumbach. In 1978 a new office complex and sufficiently spacious production and storage facilities were built on a 10,000 square metre plot of land. Here too, however, the company is reaching its limits in regards to its spatial growth, and is acquiring new, future-oriented sites in the same industrial zone, with a total area of 90,000 square metres.

The company founder and proprietor Peter Gelhard comes from a long-standing family of merchants from Ransbach, Germany. The family started producing rennet in 1825 and later expanded the company to include trading and sorting of natural sausage casings.