The LMT Group
Efficiency through Innovation
The LMT Group is a globally active, family-owned group of companies specializing in advanced mechanical engineering (Fette Compacting) and precision tools (LMT Tools).
Headquartered in Schwarzenbek near Hamburg, the Group achieved sales of 380 million euros in 2023, employing over 1,800 people across more than 20 locations worldwide.
An independent management team, supported by a Supervisory Board, ensures the strategic direction of the Group. Synergies and high-quality standards are fostered through shared production and administrative resources across subsidiaries.
The LMT Group is committed to a corporate philosophy centered on long-term, sustainable, and fair collaboration, ensuring exceptional performance for customers and partners—a strong foundation for a successful future.
Key facts
20 production and service sites.
Employs 1,800 people worldwide.
Turnover: 380 million euros
(2023 business year).
Divisions of the LMT Group
Innovations for
tablet production
With over 6,000 installed machines, Fette Compacting is the global technology leader in integrated solutions for industrial tablet production, specializing in high-performance machines for the pharmaceutical, nutrition and chemical industries.
As a comprehensive process partner, the company offers holistic and sustainable solutions: from formulation development and suitable process technologies to ongoing production.
The company is headquartered in Schwarzenbek near Hamburg, Germany, with a second technology and production site in Nanjing, China, and a development site in Mechelen, Belgium. Fette Compacting is represented in over 50 countries.
CONTACT
Fette Compacting GmbH
Grabauer Straße 24
21493 Schwarzenbek
Germany
Precision tools
for industrial
production
LMT Tools is one of the leading experts in the development and production of precision tools. The company’s passionate commitment to precision ensures that its customers in the industry apply superior quality at the key interface between machine and workpiece. Worldwide, LMT Tools bundles its expertise in the brands LMT Fette, LMT Kieninger, LMT Onsrud and LMT Belin. Thereby, the company serves the product lines of Milling & Threading, Rolling Systems, Gear Cutting and Advanced Tools.
CONTACT
LMT Tools GmbH & Co. KG
Vogesenstr. 23
77933 Lahr
Germany
Shape your career with us
Management Board
As a management holding, the LMT Group is controlled by the LMT GmbH & Co. KG.
The Managing Director of the LMT Group is Joachim Dittrich (CEO Fette Compacting, CEO LMT Tools).
Joachim Dittrich
Managing Director LMT Group,
CEO Fette Compacting,
CEO LMT Tools
CURRICULUM VITAE
Born 1964 in Hamburg, married, two children
Since October 2024
CEO LMT Tools
Since January 2021
CEO Fette Compacting, Managing Director LMT Group
2018 – 2020
Chairman of Optima Consumer Division
2014 – 2017
Vice President Business Unit Liquid Food, Bosch, Stuttgart
2011 – 2014
General Manager Bosch Packaging Technology BV, Netherlands
The Supervisory Board of the LMT Group
The Supervisory Board of the LMT Group brings together a broad range of expertise and many years of experience. Owners and external members work together to ensure that the best decisions are taken – in the joint interests of the business and the workforce.
MEMBERS OF THE SUPERVISORY BOARD
Klaas Borchert, Lawyer and Tax Consultant, Chairman
Angelika Bengel, Owner
Regine Bengel, Owner
Franziska Eichel, Owner
Wolfgang Leimgruber, former Executive Board Member Dr.-Ing. h. c. F. Porsche AG
Peter Richard Stoffel, Managing Partner Business Club Hamburg GmbH
Martin Plucinski, Workers‘ Representative
Martin Weiser, Workers‘ Representative