Auctioneers put Peter Kaiser equipment up for sale
An online auction began on May 4 to find new owners for more than 200 pieces of equipment that footwear and leathergoods brand Peter Kaiser used at its factory in Pirmasens until earlier this year.
The company filed for bankruptcy in January, saying it had experienced a fall in sales owing to covid-19 and that, owing to continuing lockdowns, it could not be confident of making up lost ground.
The Peter Kaiser factory in Pirmasens claimed to be the oldest working manufacturing facility for women’s shoes in Europe when production stopped in February. The 170 remaining employees at the facility lost their jobs at that time.
Peter Kaiser will continue as a brand, but, with the machinery now having come under the auctioneer’s hammer, production in Primasens will not start up again.
Hamburg-based auction house Lüders & Partner is running the auction. Interested parties were able to book appointments at the factory to view the equipment before bidding.
Items in the sale included vehicles from the corporate fleet as well as cementing machines, sole splitting machines, sole presses, soling production lines, a leather-stamping machine, stitching machines, de-dusting machines, computers, other office equipment and even kitchen equipment from the canteen.
