Portrait: Company History

1984Company foundation, seated in Pforzheim-Büchenbronn
1992New building in Birkenfeld
1993Relocation to Birkenfeld, Carl-Zeiss-Straße 15
1993Commissioning of new production plants and expansion of existing plants
1998Extension of the administration block by addition of another administration-building storey
1999 Expansion of capacity by means of an additional production plant
2000Commissioning of a two-track production plant
2001Expansion of production surface area and production plants by outsourcing the warehouse
2002New building at the Birkenfeld headquarters, Panoramastrasse 76, with 12,000 m² useful area 
____and erection of new high speed production plants
2003Completion of relocation to the new building and further development of the plant technology
2004Construction of a new production plant for stamped strips of up to 180 mm widths
____Addition of palladium-nickel refinement plant to our production programme
2005Commissioning of the most modern spot-plating plant for highly selective deposition
2006Expansion of hall 3 by 3,000 m² by increasing the production capacities and logistic space
2007Commissioning of the most modern palladium-nickel plant with a length of 120 m