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The history of HYBRIMIN®

2022
HYBRIMIN® Futter X is launched. HYBRIMIN® Futter X is an internationally applicable web program for ration calculation and feed optimization for all types of pets and livestock. It is delivered in 33 languages. In addition to HYBRIMIN® Futter 5 and HYBRIMIN® WinFumi, this is the third independent product.

2017
HYBRIMIN® Futter 5 is now available in 31 different languages. In addition to the Latin languages, there are also Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Chinese (Mandarin), Greek and Russian. HYBRIMIN® has external partners in Croatia, Lithuania, Russia and the Ukraine.

2016
The multilingual version of HYBRIMIN® WinFumi 9.5 is presented at Eurotier 2016 in Hanover.

2015
HYBRIMIN® is the world’s first company for software in the animal feed sector to introduce the three-part calculation screen in HYBRIMIN® WinFumi 9.0: raw materials, ingredients and the finished declaration can now be processed simultaneously.

2013
The multilingual advisor program HYBRIMIN® Futter 5 comes on the market. There are now regular updates and program development. HYBRIMIN® is active in more than 40 countries.

2010
HYBRIMIN® WinFumi 8 is launched. Development of feedstock and integration of new optimization methods.

2008
The Windows feed advisor program, HYBRIMIN® Futter 2008 receives a new database is launched. Translations begin to extend the language options to twelve, including Greek, Lithuanian and Turkish. The first external partners in Croatia and the Ukraine join the team.

2006
Dipl. Kaufmann Thomas Gabriel, who had been employed by the company since 1979, first in software development and then as project leader, takes over HYBRIMIN®. The firm becomes HYBRIMIN® Computer + Programme GmbH & Co. KG.

2003
The Windows advisor version is extended: HYBRIMIN® Futter 2003. Further development of HYBRIMIN® WinFumi with a new database. All animal feed data is revised and expanded with new feedstock.

2001
All HYBRIMIN® programs adapted for the Euro.

2000
The final MS-DOS version to meet the “Year 2000 Problem”. The first Windows advisor version of HYBRIMIN® Futter 2000 comes on the market.

1996/97
The first Windows version HYBRIMIN® WinFumi for Windows 95 is employed at food and feed manufacturers. Expansion of the range: HYBRIMIN® WinFumi is upgraded on a yearly basis through the update service. The sales of the advisor version are extended to East Asia.

1995
Further improvement of the MS-DOS advisor program, introduction of the translation module – the customer can now translate the programs into any language himself.

1994
Start of Windows programming for Windows 3.11 with the aim of creating multi-user versions.

1993
Staff increased, company headquarters moved to Fuhlen.

1991
Further languages and countries added: South Tyrol, Cyprus, Czech Republic, the Baltic States.

1990
A successful start in the new Federal States working with external partners.

1989
HYBRIMIN® Fumi is installed by rolled large food and dietary feed manufacturers.

1987
The first feed advice programs HYBRIMIN® Futter, extended by the EPSON HX-20 using MS-DOS on PC and laptop, are sold. HYBRIMIN® Fumi is introduced in Austria and Switzerland and installed in over 100 companies. Translations in Bulgarian, Romanian and Russian will follow.

1986
HYBRIMIN® develops a declaration module for use in Raiffeisen centers. The first English version of HYBRIMIN® Fumi is sold to Nigeria. A comprehensive fertilizer version is created.

1984/85
Development of HYBRIMIN® software is strengthened. Following on from the first generations of programs for the feed industry, come versions for the fertilizer and nutrition industries. From the very start, these programs are produced in two versions with differing capabilities – an optimized version for industrial feed and foodstuff manufacturers and a smaller, easy to use, advisor version for feed merchants, modified also for the fertilizer and foodstuff industry.

1983
Portable computers arrive on the market. HYBRIMIN® sells the first Epson HX-20 for feed calculation and becomes a pioneer in agricultural computer consultation. In subsequent years, this is also sold in Austria and the first English version to Saudi Arabia. The hardware and software combination is sold over 1,500 times.

1980
HYBRIMIN® takes advantage of the “IT Boom Years” in the first half of the 1980s. With the arrival of the first affordable computers such as DEC Vax or Commodore PET 2100, simple feed optimizations are possible with the help of the Simplex algorithm with up to 20 restrictions.

1979
Agricultural engineer Manfred Gabriel has been working in the animal nutrition industry for a long time. He uses his many years of experience and his knowledge of premix manufacturing to create software and establishes the firm HYBRIMIN® Futterspezialitäten GmbH, to sell feed and animal nutrition products. The name HYBRIMIN® comes from HYBRIdsauen-MINeral(Hybrid sow-mineral). Next comes the production and marketing of mineral feed.