Embru
| Embru-Werke AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1904 |
| Seat | Rüti ZH , Switzerland |
| management | Pascal Huber ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 210 |
| sales | 57.4 million CHF (2013) |
| Branch | Furniture |
| Website | www.embru.ch |
The Embru-Werke AG is a Swiss furniture manufacturer based in Rüti ZH . The company was founded in 1904 and today employs 210 people in Switzerland. The Embru range includes furniture for care and educational institutions, office furniture and numerous design classics. Over the past 110 years, well-known designers and architects such as Max Ernst Haefeli , Werner Max Moser , Rudolf Steiger , Wilhelm Kienzle and Alfred Roth have designed furniture for Embru.
Company history
In 1904, the Embru was founded by Hermann Hess-Honegger as an iron and metal bed factory in Rüti. “Embru-Werke AG” then became the official company name in 1912.
In the thirties, the modern tubular steel furniture was added and the collaboration with designers and architects from Marcel Breuer to Werner Max Moser . It was then that the first height-adjustable school desks were created.
After the Second World War, hospital and care beds were further developed. In 1958, the development went from the hydraulically height-adjustable hospital bed to the electrically adjustable bed, which the patient could now operate himself.
Ergonomics in school became an increasingly important issue. The task here was to find furniture that would adapt to the growing children. In the 1950s, Embru therefore developed height-adjustable tables and chairs for classrooms.
At the end of the 1970s, the product range was expanded to include the “Ergodata” line of office furniture, which was used to equip more than a million workstations. The series was later replaced by "Take off" and currently by "eQ".
In 2007, the modern TruLaser Tube 5000 laser cutting system for flexible tube and profile processing was installed in Rüti, and at the beginning of 2010 a new powder coating system with pretreatment and baking oven was put into operation. At just over CHF 3 million, this is the largest investment in the history of Embru in a production facility. In addition to the ISO 9001: 2008 quality management certificate, Embru has also had the ISO 14001 : 2004 environmental management certificate and the OHSAS 18001: 2007 occupational health and safety management certificate since 2013 . The current CEO, Pascal Huber, has headed the company since 1995.
Design classics
In 1927, six model apartments were furnished by Swiss architects on the occasion of the “Die Wohnung” exhibition in the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart . Since Embru had the manufacturing and development options for this furniture, which was then manufactured using the most modern means, in the following years there was cooperation with the designers of Swiss modernism . The results of this collaboration include Marcel Breuer's garden lounger, Werner Max Moser's armchair, the “ spaghetti chairs ” by Huldreich Altorfer and the bed by Alfred Roth .
Today the innovations from that time are considered design classics and are still manufactured by Embru based on original design drawings.
The original Embru advertising posters from the 1930s and 1940s, some with photographs by Hans Finsler , are part of the poster collection of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich .
Interactive learning technology
In January 2016, Promethean Ltd. the area of interactive learning technology has been expanded.
literature
- Andrea Mehlhose / Martin Wellner: Modern furniture: 150 years of design. Ullmann, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-8480-0029-6 .
- Arthur Rüegg / Ruggero Tropeano: Paths to “Good Form”: Nine articles on the history of Swiss product design. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1995, ISBN 978-3-7643-5283-7 .
- Arthur Rüegg: Swiss furniture and interiors in the 20th century. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 2002 ISBN 978-3-7643-6482-3 .
- Peter Lepel / Oliver Spies: About furniture furniture - a foray through the archive of Embru-Werke 1928–1943. Embru-Werke AG, 2007, ISBN 978-3-033-01394-0 .
- Peter Lepel / Oliver Spies: About advertising: Advertising material from Embru-Werke [until 1950]. Embru-Werke AG, 2011, ISBN 978-3-9522259-3-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ English beds and Swiss school desks. NZZ, March 20, 2004
- ↑ Embru posters in the collection of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
