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This year again, the trainees will support the Gelsenkirchener Tafel in its Christmas campaign and will spend two days wrapping donations as Christmas presents.

Ultralight hoses from Matzen & Timm meet the high requirements of aviation. The feather-light ventilation hose HPL 2P-SK is about a quarter lighter than its predecessor model, thus reducing aircraft weight and fuel consumption.

Antistatic FOOD hoses from Masterflex comply with the new EU Regulation No. 10/2011, which will apply to all hoses suitable for use with foodstuffs from 2016. This means that all FOOD hoses can be used to transport food products from potato starch to sugar to frozen foods and even powdered milk for baby food.

The Masterflex Group, which has been based in Gelsenkirchen-Erle for more than 25 years, is one of 13 companies participating in a nationwide advertising campaign to draw attention to Gelsenkirchen and, of course, to the leading hose specialist.

In October, Masterflex SE sells its shares in Masterflex RUS from St. Petersburg. In return, an exclusive trading partnership is signed with the new majority owner and previous partner, SovPlym.

At the B2Run company race in Gelsenkirchen Schalke, the Masterflex team achieved a great 25th place in the overall standings. A donation of 1,100 euros was raised for the Gelsenkirchen Children's Table.

For the first time in the company's history not at Horst Castle:

In June, Masterflex SE holds its Annual General Meeting in the Arena auf Schalke. And for the first time in the Company's history, more than half of the share capital (54.75 percent) was represented at the shareholder meeting.

As part of the sponsoring cooperation with Tafel Gelsenkirchen, the trainees will spend two days during the Advent season sorting and packaging donations in kind as Christmas presents.

In autumn, the innovative FireFlex hose will be launched on the US market. FireFlex is a vehicle exhaust hose specially designed for high temperature applications and was developed especially for the fleet of fire brigades.

At the Hanover Fair, the Masterflex Group will present itself for the first time together with its Masterflex and Novoplast Schlauchtechnik brands. The Prime Minister of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Dr. Reiner Haseloff, had the Masterflex Group's innovations on display during the trade fair.

In February 2014, the Masterflex Group launches the worldwide new product Master-PUR Trivolution on the market: a single hose with THREE additional features. The Master-PUR Trivolution® spiral hose is antistatic according to TRBS 2153, microbe resistant and flame retardant according to DIN 4102 B1.

For the product launch, a colourful and sympathetic marketing offensive is launched with three symbolic "super-heroes".

In autumn 2013, the Masterflex Group will commission new clean rooms at its Halberstadt site. In order to meet the growing needs of its customers in the medical technology sector, production for the Novoplast Schlauchtechnik brand was expanded by a new clean room.

In September 2013, the Masterflex Group will launch an absolute world first on the market for spiral hoses: The "Master-PUR Performance®" of the Masterflex brand. This extruded spiral hose with an absolutely seamlessly smooth surface on the inside can withstand the greatest stresses when transporting rough or heavy bulk goods and is also much more flexible than comparable heavy PU hoses.

In May, the Group's refinancing until 2018 is newly agreed. The new syndicated loan for a total of up to EUR 40 million has a term until June 2018 and was concluded with only four banks. This agreement replaces the old loan, which is valid until 2015, as well as essentially all other credit lines in the Masterflex Group and also provides funds for possible acquisitions in the core business.

Since March 2013 Masterflex has been presenting itself in a new brand identity. Since then, all products have been offered on the market under one of the five corporate brands - Masterflex, Matzen & Timm, Novoplast Schlauchtechnik, Fleima-Plastic and Masterduct - under the Masterflex Group umbrella brand.

Masterflex will celebrate its 25th anniversary in October 2012. On this occasion, donations will be collected internally and externally for the Gelsenkirchener Tafel e.V. A handsome four-digit amount will be collected.

The Annual General Meeting in June approves the conversion to Masterflex SE by a large majority. The reason for the change in legal form is its greater acceptance by globally active customers and investors. Formally, the conversion to an SE will take effect on 1 October 2012, with no changes to the stock exchange listing.

In August, Masterflex is awarded the "Family-friendly company 2012" seal by the Gelsenkirchen Alliance for Families. This was in recognition of the practice of family-friendly working time models and emergency regulations (illness, loss of lessons) that has been customary here for years.

For the expansion into Asia, subsidiaries are founded in Germany, Singapore and China. After a successful search for a location, the sales team in Singapore and China will be successively built up.

Novoplast Schlauchtechnik launches the novel product generation X-Flame®, which meets the requirements of the welding industry in a special way with properties such as "self-extinguishing" or "halogen-free".

Masterflex is awarded for its successful participation in the "Ökoprofit" project. The aim is to develop practical ideas that reduce the burden on the environment and at the same time cut operating costs.

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In December, the Masterflex Group begins its expansion into Asia with the establishment of the Asian lead company Masterflex Asia Pte Ltd in Singapore and a further location near Shanghai / China.

Fittings in 3-D geometry can replace heavy metal pipes. They also dampen vibrations.

The inert gas hose developed by Matzen & Timm for the tank system of the Airbus A380 / M400 is as light as a feather, electrically conductive and non-flammable.

In autumn, Masterflex's CEO, Dr. Andreas Bastin, will be awarded the "Turnarounder of the Year 2011" prize in the category 'companies up to 500 employees' by the auditing company BDO and the magazine impulse.

In the summer, Masterflex joins the acceptance campaign of the IHK North Westphalia. With this offensive, the local industrial companies are promoting greater understanding and proximity among the people of the region.

With its subsidiary Masterflex Cesko s.r.o., Masterflex is starting its own sales activities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Masterflex sold Clean Air Bike GmbH, Berlin, and Velo Drive GmbH, Herten, in April. Finally, the fuel cell technology activities are sold in October as part of an asset deal. The refocusing on the core business of High-tech Hose Systems, which began in 2008, is now complete.

The electrically heated hose system templine® is presented externally for the first time. The unique design of templine® enables uniform heating of the conveyed material. This results in significant savings in energy consumption. templine® is awarded product of the month.

With the new electrically conductive hose type Master-Clip VITON® EL, Masterflex expands its range of highly flexible clamping profile hoses for EX-hazardous areas by another product.

The Board announces the sale of the Mobility Group as the last remaining activity outside the core business of the Masterflex Group. The sale, which will take place in 2011, will complete the restructuring of the Group initiated in 2008 (concentration on the core High-tech Hose Systems business).

A new sales company is being established in Brazil. In Russia, a joint venture with a Swedish-Russian company is launched. Masterflex thus continues to expand its international activities in the core High-tech Hose Systems business unit during its restructuring.

As part of the refocusing on the core business, the subsidiary SURPRO GmbH is sold.

The Annual General Meeting of Masterflex AG approves a capital increase, a key component in the restructuring of the Group's financing. The capital increase will be implemented in December.

The self-founded subsidiary Novoplast Schlauchtechnik celebrates its 20th anniversary.

With the fun-flexx® product series, Masterflex offers professional dog tunnels for dog sports and recreational use as well as tunnel systems for ferrets.

Masterflex produces an antistatic hose series for EX zones with non-migrating permanent antistatic agent that meets all requirements of the new TRBS 2153 directive (formerly BGR 132 directive) for the dissipation of electrostatic charges. The product series includes abrasion and microbe-resistant hoses as well as hoses for use in the food and pharmaceutical industries.

The subsidiary Angiokard Medizintechnik GmbH & Co KG is being sold as part of the refocusing on the core business.

On June 1, Mark Beck will become the new CFO of Masterflex AG.

Masterflex produces the "Master-TPA" hose series, which consists of around 30 percent renewable raw materials and combines a wide range of product properties that previously could only be offered by isolated, very special material types.

Masterflex offers a new type of clamping shell connection system, a customer-oriented, cost-effective system solution with which commercially available standard connecting elements can be easily combined.

The subsidiaries Masterflex Brennstoffzellentechnik GmbH and digomed:medical IT solutions GmbH agree to cooperate in the marketing of fuel cells.

As part of the refocusing on the core business, the subsidiary DICOTA GmbH is sold.

The subsidiary Novoplast Schlauchtechnik opens a new 2,000 sqm production hall.

The former Chairman of the Executive Board, Detlef Herzog, is elected to the Supervisory Board by the Annual General Meeting.

Masterflex extends the production possibilities of the Master-Clip series up to diameter 2000 (formerly DN 900). By means of an external steel spiral, the materials used are clamped to form tension-resistant hoses. This process enables the processing of special fabrics into high-quality suction and blower hoses.

As of 1 April 2008, Dr Andreas Bastin will become the new CEO of Masterflex AG. The strategic realignment of the Masterflex Group with a focus on the core business unit High-Tech Hose Systems and its financing is initiated.

Deutsche Telekom is testing cargo bikes from Masterflex - 14 cargo taxis are in use in Berlin.

The hose production site in Bulgaria will be relocated to the Czech Republic. There, the subsidiary SURPRO produces locally.

The subsidiary TechnoBochum GmbH is the supplier for the largest tunnel project in Germany, the extension and new construction of the Karlsruhe-Basel railway line.

DICOTA GmbH acquired seventy percent of the shares in DICOTA AG, CH-Freienbach on 11 October 2007.

At Masterduct in the USA, a completely new product line for high-temperature hoses is being developed.

The subsidiary CAB GmbH supplies 14,000 electrically powered bicycles. This is a decisive step towards further opening up the market for light mobile vehicles.

The DICOTA Group is successfully expanding in Asia and will be exhibiting its product range at Computex in Taipei.

Novoplast Schlauchtechnik becomes a member of the MIMEG network, an association of nine medical technology companies: http://www.mimeg.de.

Masterflex is the first and only manufacturer to offer a certified complete hose system for conveying liquid foodstuffs.

Masterflex sets new standards in conveyor technology with the Master-PUR inline hose type. The PU-lined, seamlessly smooth hose has a service life up to 6.5 times longer and better pressure resistance than the best tested rubber hose.

The subsidiary Novoplast Schlauchtechnik GmbH presents a new standard program for microbe and hydrolysis resistant PUR pneumatic hoses and thermofixed hoses. The latter are used, for example, on textile machines.

Masterflex Brennstoffzellentechnik GmbH acquires a 67 percent interest in PERM Motor GmbH, Breisach. PERM supplies a key product for the technical drive of the Cargobikes.

The subsidiary Matzen & Timm GmbH increases its production capacities and moves its headquarters from Hamburg to Norderstedt.

T-Com is using the world's first Cargobikes during the World Cup in Germany.

The British subsidiary Masterflex Technical Hoses Ltd. celebrates its tenth anniversary.

Masterflex will deliver Cargobikes (light vehicles) with fuel cell drive as part of the EU project HyChain Minitrans. The contract will be signed in Brussels in the presence of representatives of the EU Commission. The transnational project is intended to demonstrate innovative and sustainable alternatives to the heavily oil-dependent transport industry.

Delivery of the world's first fleet of bicycles with fuel cell drive to the city of Herten in the Ruhr area.

Masterflex acquires the SURPRO Group, one of the leading companies in the precious metal coating sector.

The universally applicable cargo taxi "Cargobike" with an innovative hydrogen-based fuel cell drive system is presented for the first time. In addition to the drive, electricity can also be provided for lighting or cooling transported goods. The range is 250 km.

Ulrich Wantia will be appointed as the new Chief Financial Officer by the Supervisory Board on 10 December 2004.

Masterflex shares are included in the SDAX small cap index of the stock exchange.

The Masterflex subsidiary Angiokard Medizintechnik GmbH & Co KG acquires FLEIMA-PLASTIC GmbH in Mörlenbach.

Masterflex is increasing the proportion of freely tradable shares (free float) and thus also broadening its investor base.

Masterflex presents the prototype of an electric bicycle with fuel cell drive at the Hannover Messe. NRW Minister Axel Horstmann tests the bicycle, which has a range of around 120 km.

Masterflex is awarded the "Oscar for medium-sized companies" prize. This prize has been awarded to particularly innovative companies from the SME sector since 1995.

Masterflex takes over the long-established Hamburg-based Matzen & Timm GmbH, which supplies the international aviation industry with highly specialized hoses and molded parts.

Masterflex receives an order from AIRBUS to develop a fuel cell system.

Masterflex AG is admitted to the new Prime Standard segment, the area with the highest transparency requirements for listed companies.

Masterflex AG celebrates its 15th anniversary.

The French subsidiary Masterflex S.A.R.L. celebrates its 10th anniversary.

Masterflex employs more than 300 employees group-wide.

By acquiring a majority interest in DICOTA GmbH, Masterflex AG is preparing to enter the fuel cell technology market.

Inclusion of Masterflex shares in the SDAX of the 100 largest companies listed on the SMAX on September 18, 2000

Ten-year anniversary of Novoplast Schlauchtechnik GmbH and inauguration of a new clean room production hall

Start of production of high-tech hose systems in the USA

Masterflex AG goes public in Frankfurt on June 16 (SMAX/official trading)

Masterflex Kunststofftechnik GmbH is converted into Masterflex AG in May. The Board consists of Detlef Herzog (Chairman) and Hiltrud Mütherich (Finance).

Purchase of 51% of the shares of Angiokard Medizintechnik GmbH & Co KG, Friedeburg

Masterflex doubles its production area at the Gelsenkirchen site.

Purchase of the company Flexmaster U.S.A./Houston

The world's only supplier of the Combiflex PU joining system

Development of a new type of PU truck brake hose by the subsidiary Novoplast Schlauchtechnik GmbH

Development of a novel process for lining steel pipes with highly abrasion-resistant PU plastic

Foundation of the subsidiary Masterflex Technical Hoses Ltd. in Great Britain

Construction of a plant in Lyon/France

Construction of a new plant in Gelsenkirchen with 7,300 m² production/administration/warehouse. Since 1994, this has also been the headquarters of the - later globally active - Masterflex Group.

Development of a plastic formulation (a world first) with which for the first time, flame-retardant and officially approved PU hoses can be produced as a replacement for PVC hoses.

Establishment of a coating department in Herten: innovative lining of polyurethane (PU) wear hoses. Polyurethane is a very resilient plastic, but is difficult to process.

Foundation of the subsidiary Masterflex S.A.R.L in Lyon/France

Foundation of the subsidiary Novoplast Schlauchtechnik GmbH in Halberstadt/Saxony-Anhalt: smooth hoses made of special plastics are produced there, which are also used in medical technology.

Development of new process technologies and machines for the processing of high-temperature plastics and high-tech fabrics

Quadrupling of the production area in Herten to 1,600 m²

Foundation of Masterflex Kunststofftechnik GmbH in Herten/Ruhr area with 3 employees. The production area is 400 m².