Egon Putzi - HoF

Summary : Egon Putzi beat all the odds to make SEZ a consistently profitable wet processing company.

Egon Putzi (2006) has beaten all the odds to make SEZ a consistently profitable wet processing company.

First of all, SEZ is in the middle of technology nowhere: Austria
Second, he has uniquely differentiated something that many thought were un-differentiable: wet processing…
And that was in a time when most equipment companies were giving up on differentiation

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