Karl Frank (company)
The Karl Frank GmbH was a company for Meßzeug and testing machines.
history
From 1912 Karl Jakob Frank (1885–1952) dealt with the manufacture of parallel gauge blocks , which he brought onto the market in series from 1919 in his precision engineering workshop in Mannheim- Neckarau .
Since then, the program has been expanded to include testing machines for metal, textiles, paper, cardboard, elastomers and plastomers as well as gauge hardness testing machines for destructive material tests. After the factory was destroyed in the Second World War in 1943, it was fully dismantled at the end of 1948.
In 1948 the company headquarters were relocated to Weinheim- Birkenau and the old Neckarau company headquarters were given up. When a new branch was built in Mannheim-Rheinau in 1959 , the company had 400 employees, 50 of them in Rheinau.
His son, Karl Friedrich Frank (born December 24, 1906 in Karlsruhe) continued the company after completing his training as a measuring technician in the USA. Advice and the establishment of complete materials testing laboratories became increasingly popular. In 1973 there was a rationalization agreement with M. Koyemann Nachf. Puchstein & Co. in Erkrath.
After the bankruptcy at the end of the 1990s, parts of the company were taken over and continued by other companies.