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Company history<br />
Hand tools production in Bystřice in the Czech<br />
Republic, can be proud of its almost 100 years<br />
production tradition. Our company went through<br />
many changes since its foundation in 1919,<br />
influenced for example by 2nd World War,<br />
nationalization processes in late 1940s as well<br />
as demolition of the „Iron Curtain“ in 1989. Even<br />
though many things changed since the founder<br />
of our factory forged his first chisel blade in<br />
Explore with us some of the most important milestones in our company history:<br />
his simple workshop, our mission and spirit<br />
remained the same, and that is to bring highquality<br />
and affordable hand tools to craftsmen<br />
and woodworkers.<br />
Nowadays, we are proud to export our highquality<br />
products into around 45 countries all<br />
over the world and to celebrate world-wide<br />
success.<br />
1919 1970<br />
History of our factory dates back to 1919,<br />
when manufacturer Václav Richter founded<br />
a factory producing quality tools for<br />
woodworking. The oldest preserved catalog<br />
from 1929 already features around 150<br />
products and its variations.<br />
In 1970‘s the production grew rapidly<br />
and the overall output doubled. New<br />
business name and trademark <strong>NAREX</strong> was<br />
established.<br />
1945<br />
Throughout the years company continuously grew and<br />
the development was not interrupted even by the 2nd<br />
World War. Substantial change was brought by 1948,<br />
when the company was nationalized, whereas in 1958<br />
the factory was connected as an individual manufacture<br />
to the newly established national company Nářadí Praha,<br />
subsequently Narex Praha.<br />
1937| Václav Richter tools manufacture 1938| Newly built forge 1955| Semi-automatic machining<br />
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