Precious metals recycling, refining, and materials supplier since 1845
Heimerle + Meule is Germany's oldest precious metals refiner, now operating as a full-service materials supplier across jewelry, automotive, electronics, and dental sectors. The tech stack reveals a manufacturing-forward company modernizing its backend: SAP (both R/3 and S/4HANA) anchors enterprise operations, while recent infrastructure work—Terraform, Kubernetes, hybrid multi-cloud architecture, Windows Autopilot—signals active IT maturation. Identity lifecycle automation and cloud cost control appear as live pain points, matching the adopting/replacing activity.
Notable leadership hires: Materials Management Lead
Heimerle + Meule GmbH, founded in 1845 and headquartered in Pforzheim, Germany, evolved from a processor of jewelry industry scrap into an international precious metals company. Today it operates across recycling and refining, metals trading, jewelry and technical semi-finished products, galvanic chemicals and equipment, dental products, and investment materials. The company serves jewelers, watchmakers, automotive suppliers, electronics manufacturers, dental labs, and others across Europe. With 201–500 employees, the organization maintains manufacturing operations alongside sales and technical support, with current hiring concentrated in engineering, manufacturing, and sales roles across Germany and Austria.
SAP (R/3 and S/4HANA) for enterprise operations, Microsoft 365 and Active Directory for workplace infrastructure, Azure and AWS for cloud services, Kubernetes and Terraform for infrastructure automation, and Veeam for backup. Windows Autopilot is currently being adopted.
Key projects include Microsoft services integration into IAM, identity lifecycle automation, Windows Autopilot deployment, infrastructure automation with Terraform, hybrid multi-cloud architecture maintenance, CSRD EU taxonomy compliance implementation, and customer relationship development in precious metals trading.
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