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In March 2010, Sönke Vogel stepped back from day-to-day operations and joined the company's advisory board. Robert and
Frederik Vogel junior, the sons of Sönke Vogel, subsequently joined the management board and took over the leadership. Robert M. Vogel overseeing Sales & Marketing, and Frederik
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In 1970, Sönke Vogel implemented a pivotal shift in the company's focus toward medical measuring and weighing, repositioning seca as a leader in producing essential diagnostic and therapeutic tools. Since then, seca has specialised in developing products that accurately measure patients' weight,
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Friedrich Alois Quintenz who had invented the decimal scale in 1821. Over the course of the next thirty years, the Joachim's workshop evolved into a small factory. However, following his death in 1874, the business stagnated and the factory's prominense waned until 1988, when
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