HEWI

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HEWI Heinrich Wilke GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1929
Seat Bad Arolsen , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Thorsten Stute (Managing Director)
Number of employees 550 (2019)
Branch Sanitary, barrier-free and building hardware
Website www.hewi.com/de/

Door handle 111 from HEWI
Administrative headquarters in Bad Arolsen

HEWI is a global manufacturer of door handles , sanitary accessories , fittings , handrails and signage. The family company is based in Hessen , the production facility is in Mengeringhausen , the administrative headquarters in Bad Arolsen , and the training center in the Wetterburg .

history

Heinrich Wilke GmbH was founded in 1929 by Heinrich Wilke, who abbreviated the company with the first letters of his name: HEWI. From 1934 the first products were made from the plastic Bakelite . At that time, HEWI was one of the first plastics processing companies in Germany. In 1954 the production of door protectors and door handles began, from 1957 from the then new material polyamide .

Together with architects, Rudolf Wilke, the son of the company founder, developed the door handle 111 made of polyamide in 1969 , with which the company gained international fame. Based on this design , a complete system with cloakrooms, handrails and railings was created, the System 111 , which became a modern classic and a bestseller and mainstay of the company.

HEWI has been producing products for barrier-free living since 1979 . In 1996 the company held the first HEWI forum Barrier Free Living - Life without exclusion in Bad Arolsen, followed in 1998 by the held also in Bad Arolsen Forum HEWI forum Accessible life - approaches and visions for a togetherness . Extensive documentation was published on the congresses. From 2003 onwards, HEWI produced equipment specifically for institutional care in hospitals, rehabilitation centers and retirement homes.

The company has also been a supplier to the automotive industry since 2001 .

Awards

Some HEWI products were technically and creatively pioneers; HEWI has won numerous awards for product design since the 1960s. With its awards since 1982, the company has been one of the most successful winners of the iF Industrie Forum Design , Red Dot Design Award , Architects' Darling and received the Hessian State Prize for Universal Design, which was first awarded in 2013.

Publications

  • Life without exclusion. Documentation HEWI-Forum barrier-free building. Forum catalog on September 25 and 26, 1996 in Arolsen, ed .: HEWI Heinrich Wilke GmbH, HEWI, Arolsen 1996
  • Christiane Nicolaus (Red.): A classic seeks connections. Innovation competition 1996/97. Ed .: HEWI Heinrich Wilke GmbH, HEWI, Bad Arolsen 1997
  • Door, window and furniture fittings , catalog for handicapped accessible living, HEWI, Bad Arolsen 1997
  • Sanitary equipment , catalog for handicapped accessible living, HEWI, Bad Arolsen 1997
  • Approaches and visions for cooperation. Documentation HEWI-Forum on September 30th and October 1st, 1998 in Bad Arolsen. Ed .: HEWI Heinrich Wilke GmbH, HEWI, Bad Arolsen 1998
  • Gerhard Loeschcke , Daniela Pourat: Apartment adaptation: Recommendations for equipment, retrofitting and renovation . HEWI, Bad Arolsen 1998
  • Gerhard Loeschcke, Daniela Pourat: Universal, integrative, adaptable. Planning recommendations for barrier-free living. Ed .: HEWI Heinrich Wilke GmbH, HEWI, Bad Arolsen 2002
  • NN : The power of color . Ed .: HEWI, o. J.
  • Viviane Greeting (graphic): Kunst.stoffe. History - applications - perspectives for the future (= Synthetic.materials. History - applications - perspectives ). In German and English Language, publisher: HEWI Heinrich Wilke GmbH, Society for Knowhow Transfer mbH, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2007

literature

  • Bernd Steltner: Door fittings made of polyamide. Lever, handles and straps , (= Die Bibliothek der Technik , Vol. 139), Verlag Moderne Industrie, Landsberg / Lech 1997, ISBN 3-478-93153-3
  • Birgit Kümmel , Bernd Steltner (Ed.): Made in Arolsen. HEWI and the Kaulbachs. Between court handicraft and industrial design , catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Museum Bad Arolsen, Bad Arolsen: Museumsverein, 1998, ISBN 3-930930-05-6
  • Sabine Zentek: ProduktProzesse: Development and legal histories of well-known German brands , av-Edition, Ludwigsburg 1999, ISBN 3-929638-26-6 , p. 65 ff.

Web links

Commons : HEWI  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Federal Gazette . In 2001 HEWI still had 1,100 employees and a turnover of DM 240 million , see HEWI: Handwerk im Visier , IKZ-Haustechnik , 4/2001, page 40 ff.
  2. ↑ Insa Lüdtke: Everyday product as a design object , Tagesspiegel , November 25, 2006
  3. ↑ Position of the work: 51 ° 21 ′ 19.1 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 13.9 ″  E
  4. ↑ Location of the administration: 51 ° 22 ′ 57.7 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 54.6 ″  E
  5. ↑ Location of the training center: 51 ° 23 ′ 11.4 ″  N , 9 ° 3 ′ 39.2 ″  E
  6. ↑ Sabine Zentek: ProduktProzesse , 1999, p. 65
  7. ↑ Kai Ritzmann: Small classic: Door handle "111" by HEWI ( Memento from April 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), wand-und-beet.de , April 24, 2015
  8. ↑ The classics of the 20th century - 70: doorknob "Hewi System 111" , Homeware
  9. ↑ Books, brochures , literature on barrier-free living on the website baufachinformation.de of the Fraunhofer Information Center for Space and Building
  10. ^ Detail: Zeitschrift für Architektur + Baudetail +einrichtung , 2005, p. 250
  11. ↑ HEWI is one of the most successful award winners at the iF , iF Industry Forum Design
  12. ↑ Design for the development of accessibility: State award goes to Hewi-Systemlösung , Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , October 3, 2013