1873 Founded in the Black Forest
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- Producing home-made wooden brushes
1880 Founding years
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- Company water power station and lumber production
- First brush punching machine and plastic mixer
- First fully automated machine for clothes brushes
- Introduced into the WOOLWORTH range of products
30s and wartime
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- First delivery abroad
- Company fire: complete and larger new construction
- Continued cooperation with department stores
- Fully automated production of domestic brooms
- Product range: Household brushes and brooms
Post-war period
- Product range temporarily switched to wooden buttons and egg cups due to raw material shortage
- Return to manufacturing brushes and brooms
50s
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- First plastic brushes developed
- R&D department established
- Market launch of fully plastic brooms and hand brushes
- Branch in Emmendingen
60s
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- First participation in an international trade fair
- Product range split: Domestic-, sanitation- and cosmetics products
70s
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- Development and production of first wall accessory lines made of plastic
- First building supply store customer
80s
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- Supply to building supply stores expanded
- Product range: Focused on sanitary ware
- Production of brushes and brooms stopped
90s
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- Market launch of innovative adhesives technology
- Developed first metal bathroom accessories
From 2000 on
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- Additional innovations in the bath sector
- Expansion into the entire bathroom retail
Present
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- Mixer taps from in-house production
- Advancement of adhesives technology
- Partner for retail