Rehau Group

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Rehau Group
Native name
Rehau Verwaltungszentrale AG [1]
Company type Aktiengesellschaft
Founded1948
FounderHelmut Wagner
Headquarters Muri bei Bern, Switzerland
Key people
Dr. Veit Wagner (President)
Jobst Wagner (Vice President)
Products Plastics
Revenue>4 Billion EUR
Number of employees
Worldwide: more than 20.000
Website www.rehau.com
REHAU manufacturing site in Brake, Unterweser, Lower Saxony, Germany. Aerial photograph 400D 2012 05 28 9011 DxO.jpg
REHAU manufacturing site in Brake, Unterweser, Lower Saxony, Germany.

The REHAU Group is a family-owned polymer business, which develops, manufactures and markets products for the automotive, construction, furniture, materials, medical and industrial sectors. Rehau employs more than 20,000 people in over 190 locations. The headquarters for the car and industry business is in Rehau (Bavaria) and for Commercial Construction is in Erlangen (Bavaria). The administrative headquarters of the REHAU Group is located in Muri bei Bern, Switzerland (canton of Bern).

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The turnover of the whole group amounts to over 4 billion Euros. [3]

History

Helmut Wagner founded the family business in 1948 in Rehau. In 1962, the first plant outside of Europe was opened in Montreal. In 2000 Helmut Wagner, was the line of the supervisory board from his sons Jobst Wagner and Veit Wagner. Furthermore, REHAU with more than 2,000 jobs to the town's largest employer, Rehau.

In 2004, the medical division with around 200 employees was spun off and founded as the sister company Raumedic AG. It is a development partner and manufacturer for the medical and pharmaceutical industry with an independent sales network and two production sites for extrusion, injection molding and assembly in clean rooms in Helmbrechts and Mills River (North Carolina, USA). [4]

In 2018, the MB Barter & Trading SA (MBT) was taken over by REHAU Verwaltungszentrale AG. [5]

Locations

The REHAU group has more than 190 locations in 68 countries.

References

  1. Firmendaten Handelsregister Bern
  2. Nordwest-Zeitung. "Wirtschaft Brake: Rehau investiert 23 Millionen Euro". www.nwzonline.de (in German). Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  3. "About Us | REHAU Group".
  4. "Alles über das Unternehmen RAUMEDIC AG in Helmbrechts". www.raumedic.com. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  5. "Rehau übernimmt MB Barter & Trading". plastverarbeiter (in German). Retrieved 11 May 2022.