Lydia Münzer started working for us 10 years ago – a woman with a learned ‘man’s job’. She trained as a process mechanic for plastics and rubber technology, specializing in molded parts, and joined us in 2012 as deputy manager and process mechanic of the technical department. In 2016, Lydia completed her further training as a state-certified technician for machine technology, which she completed part-time for 4 years.

In 2017, due to her pregnancy, she switched to NDS (New Digital Services) and training. From the end of 2017, Lydia then took a short break in the form of maternity leave and parental leave before then returning part-time to the NDS department at the beginning of 2019.

Since September 2020, Lydia Münzer has now been part of the Marketing team. Her tasks include, in part, monitoring the competition, processing patents, and handling all press releases or articles related to our rubber injection molding machines or technologies. In marketing, you don’t just need creative minds, but also the technical part, and as a ‘connoisseur’, Lydia is ideally suited to support our team here – not least at the DKT trade fair in Nuremberg.

But in her spare time, Lydia also has a great passion – and that has nothing at all to do with technology or machines. Ever since Lydia can remember, she has been a ‘horse freak’. Even as a toddler, she bugged her parents that she wanted to ride, and together with her mom, they were constantly just painting and repainting pictures of horses. Since she was not allowed to go to riding lessons at first, she constantly climbed on the horses of the neighboring farm.

Memory of Lydia: “When once one got lost in our garden, I did everything to ‘hide’ it ….” ( unfortunately she didn’t tell us how).

At the age of almost 8, Lydia was finally allowed to start riding, once a week – on ponies without a saddle. The stable work was of course also part of it. Shortly thereafter, luck was on her side and she was allowed to help and ride at a great horse farm. Soon she was there every free minute. Thanks to the family who ran this farm, she was allowed to ride many different horses and also attend tournaments.

At some point, Lydia was even allowed to participate in the jumping competitions more and more often herself, and also to make riding badges. Her biggest dream had come true. After her high school graduation, I worked there as a rider/horse manager. In addition to stable work, training, correcting and showing horses at shows was her ‘daily bread’ and she enjoyed this time very much and is still very grateful.

It was there that Lydia met her ‘once in a lifetime’ horse, Ma Bell. ‘Bella’ was not only the best sport partner and friend she could wish for, but to this day, at the proud age of 26, she is still part of the family and Lydia always very much enjoys her daily time in the barn – and not alone, because now she has her little daughter with her.