As son of the founder of the family business, Paul Hoffmann represents the second generation and has been leading PROTEC since 2007. His love for technology is certainly something he inherited from his father.

Paul Hoffmann has a degree in industrial engineering and management (TU Vienna) and his career path has taken him to national and international companies of various sizes.

He is personally committed to observing customer processes with great passion and to optimizing them with innovative and sustainable solutions made by PROTEC. Paul Hoffmann says: "PROTEC has innovative products. We owe our great success however to our good partnerships with our customers and dealers. These partnerships are of highest priority for every member of the PROTEC team. Stability and reliability are our guiding principles."

Hans Hoffmann, inventor and founder of PROTEC, is now responsible for the technical management of the company and therefore for the development of its product and application range.

Decades of experience in welding technology, his sound technical knowledge and his insatiable inventiveness have led him to ingenious solutions, products and improvements time and time again. Several PROTEC patents bear evidence to this. The "silver-coated contact tip" which became famous all over the world as Abitip-Plus from Abicor-Binzel was also his brainchild.

Hans Hoffman was recognized for his inventions with the Kaplan Medal.

"Inventing for me means searching and finding. I know that there are thousands of users who want improvements. We localize these desires and together with our own users, develop new solutions for practice," explains Hans Hoffmann. He is constantly working on new product ideas and passionately dedicated to improving processes.