Highlights of 75 years - Hettich

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Part of the story is our ongoing transformation from a ‘mere‘ components supplier to a system partner for furniture manufacturers. We are creating and building development partnerships with customers for design, product development and marketing. As a result, we now offer system solutions along the whole value adding chain that enhance usability for the customer. In the field of innovation, our focus goes far beyond product characteristics to developing scenarios for how people will live in the future. Our study for a kitchen of the future, Concept Kitchen 2010, aroused strong interest in the industry. A brief reviewof company history 8 Our International Design Award competition for design students, in its fifth cycle this year is another way of preempting the future. The whole Hettich team – 4,800 employees, 1,800 of them outside Germany – lives out the company philosophy. Their commitment and efforts are a major factor in securing the company‘s market position nationally and internationally and to promote our long-term strategic expansion. Their expertise, skills and hard work are essential to our success, equally so is their certainty that they are working on future-oriented products and services. At the end of 2004, the Hettich Group made the biggest single capital investment in the company‘s history. It was symbolized by the laying of the foundation stone for a new logistics centre. 1930 also began with ambitious plans. Paul Hettich GmbH was founded in Herford as sister company to an original company dating back to 1888. In Herford, a team of seven employees made hinges for the furniture industry. Their products ranged from heavy, high-quality brass hinges for pianos and middle quality hinges for furniture to mini hinges for cigar boxes. The range was soon expanded to This 75th anniversary is also an opportunity to thank all our partners and to reiterate our commitment to future cooperation based on trust, partnership and productive teamwork. “As for the future, your task is not to foresee, but to enable it.“ This quotation from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry not only sums up 75 years of Hettich‘s development, but also signposts the way to an exciting future of innovation and growth. include wood screws, wardrobe rails and connectors. 1945 A fresh start: production began again after the war with 25 employees and new determination to succeed. 1953 Hettich and Alfred Günter, the long-time company agent, bought shares in ONI Metallwarenfabrik, a company making high-quality hinges from brass and light alloys.
1955 A core team evolves. 160 employees celebrate the company‘s 25th anniversary. 1958 Setting up of Kunststoff GmbH in Herford, this company later became Robbi, a leading supplier of fittings to DIY stores and builders‘ merchants. 1959 Company management in the hands of the third generation of the family, with Anton Hettich as chairman. Complete legal separation from the original company in the Black Forest. 1966 Kirchlengern becomes the new headquarters of Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG. Production starts on 8,000 sqm new production area. 1968 Together with Alfred Günter and his son Hans-Dieter, Hettich buys Franke GmbH & Co. KG in Weilstetten/Balingen. Franke with 70 employees produces fittings for beds, connectors and other structural fittings. 1969 Hettich and ONI set up a branch in Berlin – today Hettich-Umformtechnik. 1971 Injection moulding starts in Frankenberg. 1972 Kunststoff GmbH production plant in Herford completely destroyed by fire. 1974 Logistics and sales centre set up in Kirchlengern. 1976 First foreign subsidiaries in Switzerland, Sweden, France and the USA. Hettich products exported to over 80 countries. 1977 Hettich takes over August Strothmann GmbH & Co. KG in Rietberg, a company making decorative fittings, including knobs and handles.. 1979 Hettich buys shares in Richard Heinze in Herford, later taking the company over completely. This takeover gives Hettich a share in the Spanish OBE. 1980 50 years of Technik für Möbel: 1,600 employees and 60,000 sqm of offices and production floor. Permanent fittings showroom opened at company headquarters in Kirchlengern. 1986 Hettich Beschläge GmbH & Co. founded with responsibility for sales to professional fittings users – dealers and artisans. 1987 International presence strengthened by setting up sales companies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Spain and the UK. 1991 Hettich International launched as the umbrella brand for all products worldwide. Founding of a subsidiary in Japan. current aktuell news 1992 Hettich concentrates increasingly on core competences, selling the Heinze injection moulding operation and Koralle, a company making shower cabin components linked to ONI. 1994 Founding of Czech subsidiary Hettich CR k.s. and production roll out at the new Czech plant in Zdár nad Sázavou. 1995 Hettich restructured as a holding company with independent, decentralized subsidiaries. Over 4,000 employees in 15 countries. Hettich Polska founded in Poland and Hettich Italia in Italy. The subsidiary today called Hettich RUS starts production in Elektrogorsk. Sales agencies set up in Singapore and Korea – these became subsidiaries in 2002 and 2003. 1996 Plastipar Industria, today Hettich do Brazil, in Curitiba becomes part of the Hettich Group. A new production plant is set up in China. A sales office is opened in Moscow to support production in Russia. 1998 A new subsidiary Hettich SR s.r.o. set up in Trencin, Slovakia. 9
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