"Shark" – the new resectoscopes from Richard Wolf

Movi Centenary 1912 to 2012 – a trip down memory laneSiegfried Karst, Luigi Fardella, Enrico Piero Bassani, Enrico Emilio Bassani, Jürgen Steinbeck, Christof DietzThis year Movi, the Italian distributor of RichardWolf, celebrates its centenary as a distributor formedical-instrument manufacturer Richard Wolf.The success of this cooperation has been basedon strong friendship and mutual respect, initiallystarted between Mr. Theodor Mohwinckel and Mr.Georg Wolf.Theodor Mohwinckel was my great grandfatherand his name gave rise to the company nameMovi. He came to Italy at the age of 18 in 1882 torepresent German companies in the field of plastics.He founded Th. Mohwinckel in Milan and marrieda German woman. Every year he would goback to Germany to hunt with his friend GeorgWolf in Prussia. The story goes that in 1912 theyattended a special event in Kiel harbor, togetherwith steel magnate Gustav Krupp. They picked upa piece of stainless steel from the waters of theBaltic and saw there was no rust on it. Georg Wolfunderstood the potential of stainless steel in surgicalinstruments and optics.Theodor Mohwinckel suggested that he should bethe Italian distributor and the story of Wolf andMovi has endured for over a century. It spans 3more generations and has generated positivebusiness relationships that have endured evenduring two world wars. Theodor Mohwinckelproudly introduced to Italy the first urology endoscopesmade by Georg Wolf in Berlin.In 1914, the company was confiscated by the ItalianGovernment because of its German origins.In 1922, Theodor Mohwinckel came back fromexile in Switzerland at the age of 63. He boughtback the company from the government andincreased the number of Wolf products sold inItaly, expanding the range to ENT applications. Thecompany continued distributing German productsin two segments: plastics and medical devices.The baton then passed to his sons Franz andTheodor Jr, known as Teddy, and they took overleadership of the company in the late 1930s andcontinued to run it during World War II. In 1946,following the death of his brother Franz, TeddyMohwinckel took the helm of the company with aworkforce of around 60 employees. Teddyfocused on the medical field and growing businesswith Richard Wolf which moved from Berlinto its current site in Knittlingen.In 1952, the medical department of Th. Mohwinckelbecame MOVI and in 1959 the daughter ofTeddy Mohwinckel, Anna, married a young engineercalled Paolo Bassani, who went on to buyMovi from the Mohwinckel family in 1962.Paolo Bassani developed Movi in a steady trajectoryof growth from the 1960s to the first decadeof 2000 based on his strong leadership and personalrelationship with Mr. Herbert Schubert atRichard Wolf.Today, alongside distribution of Wolf endoscopicinstruments, Movi has diversified the business intofour other medical segments: surgery, criticalcare, diabetology, and homecare.I represent the latest generation to lead Movi andwould like to thank Richard Wolf for my businesstraining spent in Knittlingen and the Wolf US subsidiaryin 1986 and 1987.Enrico Piero BassaniPresident , Movi SpaPaolo Bassani, Herbert SchubertMaquet and Richard Wolf GmbH announce major sales partnershipMaquet and Richard Wolf announced in Septembera non-exclusive sales cooperation on a regionallevel. Joining forces will place bothcompanies in the unique position of being ableto offer complete, efficient and high-quality ORintegration solutions for endoscopy.Both companies have significant market sharein their respective fields of expertise. Maquetoffers a full range of products for the OR rangingfrom tables, lights and ceiling supply units to intraoperativemedia management. Richard Wolfis one of the world’s leading manufacturers ofendoscopic equipment, providing best-in-classintegrated solutions for minimally invasive surgeryin all major surgical disciplines.A modern OR is a high-tech environment consistingof many complex devices that must worktogether seamlessly and transparently to allowthe OR staff to perform safe, high-quality surgery.Furthermore, ORs constitute part of the largerhospital IT landscape exchanging data in andout of hospital networks such as clinic informationand picture archiving systems. Managingthese devices and networks as well as dealingwith environmental control and multi-modalityvideo and image distribution is a major challengefor the OR personnel.This bulletin launches the integration of RichardWolf’s endoscopy tower, including the devicecontrol solution core.control, within Maquet’sTEGRIS system for OR integration. This combinedsolution will significantly improve intraoperativeefficiency by streamlining device control and overallOR management thus accelerating proceduresand making them safer by allowing the ORstaff to concentrate on their primary task.According to Timo Haller, head of OR Integrationat Richard Wolf, “The seamless integration ofRichard Wolf’s core.control and Maquet’s Tegrisoffers Richard Wolf the unique opportunity toprovide a scalable and comprehensive solutionincorporating the quality and reliability of twoworld class companies”.Rafael Mayoral9