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2009

20 years RENZ® Canada

2008

The building of a neighbour company is bought to get more space for storage area for wire comb binding.

100 years RENZ® Germany

80 years RENZ® Argentina

30 years RENZ® America

10 years RENZ® France

2007

Foundation of subsidiary in Italy

Takeover of Wirefinn Finland

Opening of the new downtown shop in Buenos Aires, Argentina

In Heubach the Bargauer Street is bought to connect corporate building with future plant 3. Plant 2 is complemented with a further hall to offer enough space to the machine building department.

2006

Foundation of subsidiary in Turkey

Start of local production of RENZ RING WIRE® in Turkey

2005

Foundation of subsidiary in Australia

2002

Foundation of subsidiary in Brazil

2000 - 2001

Expansion of production facilities in Heubach

Start of cooperation with company MCP [later RENZ Argentina] and production of RENZ RING WIRE® in Argentina

Dutch market is handled by a Dutch salesman directly in Netherlands since 2001.

1998

90 years RENZ® Germany

Start up of plant 2 in Heubach

Foundation of subsidiary in France

The first fully automatic punching and binding line for wire comb binding, RENZ INLINE 500, comes into the market. 

1994 - 1995

The first semiautomatic block binding machine, RENZ RSB 360, comes into the market.

Foundation of subsidiary in Czech Republic

In Heubach further ground is bought and covered with buildings.

1992

Foundation of subsidiary in Great Britain

1989

Foundation of subsidiary in Canada

1979 - 1982

First office punching and binding machines for wire comb binding are built.

The production surfaces are not sufficient any more. A further area next to plant 1 is bought where new buildings are raised.

The company PMF in Constance producing small laminators is bought. The RENZ® logo is modified according to the PMF logo and stays in that form until today.

 

1978

Peter Renz takes over leadership. Production of wire comb binding begins. The first semiautomatic wire comb binding machine, RENZ AUTOBIND 420, comes into the market.

Foundation of subsidiary in USA

1969 - 1972

Alfred's son Peter joins the ten-man business. He buys a neighbour plot where the second hall is built.

1966

Definitive move of head office to Heubach

1963

RENZ®' facilities in Stuttgart get more and more crowded. Alfred and his wife Luise buy land in Heubach in Rechberg Street 44 and start building new facilities.

1962

RENZ® attend for the first time fair drupa in Duesseldorf.

1956

Christian hands over the company to his son Alfred who continues running the company as "Chr. Renz Maschinen und Apparatebau".

1955

First machines are built in own authority.

 

1952

The first perforating machine is built by order.

1950

The farrier, cut and firing business is finally ceased.

A first punching and binding machine is constructed by order of another company.

1949

The first roller burnishing machine for plastic comb binding is constructed. Until approx. 1985 RENZ® build largely automatic production lines for plastic binding.

The first so-called edge hole perforating machine, RENZ SUPER (AR 14), heralds a new era. It is the mother of all SUPER punching machines, that are distributed worldwide until today several thousand times.

1945

Son Alfred Paul Christian Renz enters the three-man-business. Conversion to a mechanical supplier company begins.

1912 - 1945

Christian, a real swabian tinkerer, invents a lot of things, for example a row boat whose rower is able to sit in direction of motion, and one of the first building cranes.

Goegelein and Renz also act as electro and thermal cutting welding shop.

Goegelein retires approximately in 1934.

1908 - 1911

Christian Renz, resident in Stuttgart, receives his test certificate and therewith competence to run a farrier shop. He founds a small business together with a certain Mr Goegelein.