Flex power tools

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Flex Verwaltungs GmbH & Co. KG
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1922
Seat Steinheim an der Murr , Germany
management Zuqian Ke, Christian Neuner
Number of employees 322
sales EUR 78.90 million
Branch Power tools
Website www.flex-tools.com
As of December 31, 2017

The Flex power tools (spelling: FLEX power tools ) is a manufacturer of power tools that was founded in 1922. The company was the first supplier of angle grinders in 1935 and had a dominant market position in these for a long time. The brand name Flex is used as a generic name for angle grinders, the verb flexen derived from it as a synonym for cutting grinding.

history

Hermann Ackermann and Hermann Schmitt founded the company Ackermann & Schmitt in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt in 1922 in order to manufacture their invention, the MS6 hand grinder, an electric motor with an attached flexible shaft. At the end of the 1920s, the flexible shaft was replaced by an angular gear. In 1935 Ackermann & Schmitt brought the first low-speed angle grinder onto the market, and in 1954 the first high-speed one. Colloquially, the brand name Flex became common as a generic name for angle grinders and the verb flexen became a synonym for cut-off grinding.

In 1996 the company renamed Flex-Elektrowerkzeuge GmbH . In 1987, high gloss polishers were introduced. In 1997 long-neck sanders were introduced for drywall construction. It worked with Porter-Cable until 2004 when this company was sold by Pentair to Stanley Black & Decker . Then Black & Decker acquired Flex-Elektrowerkzeuge GmbH. In 2013, Flex Power Tools was taken over by the Chinese Chervon Holding.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2017 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ Christoph Bolay: Procedure for the detection of accidental tilting cases in hand-held cut-off machines (= IPA-IAO research and practice . Vol. 245). Springer, Berlin a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-540-62767-7 , p. 17.
  3. ↑ Flex . In: Duden , accessed on September 17, 2015.
  4. ↑ flex . In: Duden , accessed on September 17, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b Thomas Schwarzmann: From Flex to Giraffe . In: Bauhandwerk , Issue 1–2 / 2015, accessed on September 17, 2015.
  6. ↑ Flex power tools - history - Flex, the original. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .