Highlights of 75 years - Hettich

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Highlights
“At home in all good furniture“ for 75 years. Technik für
Möbel, fittings for furniture, has been our core business for
more than seven decades. Initially in Germany and now on a
global scale. In this time, we‘ve expanded the way we serve
our customers to include all production and logistics steps
– from product consulting, through design and development
to mass production. And not only for furniture. Today, the
name Hettich stands for innovation, quality and dependability
in components for white goods, automotive, and electrical
and electronics.
For 75 years, the company has pursued
a systematic policy of developing
engineering know-how, product quality
and creativity. And of honing its skills
in the sensitive interaction between
customer, market and supplier. We also
welcome this anniversary as an opportunity
to share our vision for the future
with the people and companies that have
contributed to Hettich‘s becoming an
internationally recognized supplier and
service provider for the furniture industry.
We want to identify routes for taking
the industry forward, to formulate goals,
to play an active role in shaping the
future. “The deed is everything, the glory
naught“, wrote Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
The future is the challenge. We need the
ability to build on the past, that is already
gathering dust in the files. We want to
learn from the past and to develop new
goals rooted in our experience.
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of 75 years
Hettich‘s success is not the result of
chance. From the start it was based on
prudent policies that have formed the
links in the chain of company history.
Like the decision in 1930 to move from
Schramberg in the Black Forest, where
the original company was located and
found Paul Hettich GmbH in Herford. It
was a bold decision given the daunting
economic environment of the 1930s,
but the brothers Paul, August and Franz
Hettich recognized the potential of the
Ostwestfalen-Lippe region as a growth
centre for the furniture industry. The new
company profited from the technology
advantage of August Hettich‘s invention
in 1928 of the first fully automatic
machine for making piano hinges. These
hinges gave Hettich a strong start in the
furniture world. The creativity that drove
the company‘s early success continues to
characterize our approach in the present
and the future.
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