Orafol

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ORAFOL
legal form GmbH
founding 1808
Seat Oranienburg , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Holger Loclair, Klaus Schmidbaur
Number of employees 1000 (2018)
Website www.orafol.com

Orafol ( spelling : ORAFOL ) is a global company with headquarters in Oranienburg, Brandenburg . Main business areas are graphic products, self-adhesive reflective foils and industrial adhesive tapes. In addition to the headquarters, there are production facilities and sales offices in North America (USA, Canada), Turkey, South Africa, Asia (Japan, China, Taiwan) and Australia.

Current

The headquarters in Oranienburg operates as ORAFOL EUROPE GmbH . About 940 people are employed at it. A total of around 950 employees work at foreign production facilities and sales offices in Istanbul ( ORAFOL Turkey AS ), in Black Creek, USA ( ORAFOL Americas Inc. ), in Avon , USA ( ORAFOL Americas Inc. ), in West Henrietta, USA ( ORAFOL Precision Technology Solution ), in Oakville ( ORAFOL Canada Inc. ), in Tokyo ( ORAFOL Japan Inc. ), in Xiamen , ( ORAFOL Reflective Solutions China Inc. ), in Taipei ( ORAFOL Reflective Solutions Taiwan Inc. ), in Johannesburg , South Africa ( ORAFOL Safety Systems LTD ) and in Brisbane ( ORAFOL Australia LTD ).

history

The forerunner of today's company was the Wibelitz paint workshop founded in 1808 in the then Prussian capital of Berlin . At that time, the company was the sole manufacturer of postmark inks for the entire Kingdom of Prussia . In 1919 the company relocated to Oranienburg, what is now Krebststrasse. In 1957 the company was first partially nationalized and renamed Hanalin KG . But in 1972 the state took over completely as VEB Spezialfarben Oranienburg . At that time, the company was already producing self-adhesive reflective films for traffic signs under the brand name MIKROLUX and other products under ORACAL . After the political change in the GDR, the company changed its name to ORAFOL Klebetechnik before it was privatized . In 1991 the Treuhandanstalt then carried out privatization. In 1995, today's company headquarters was built in today's Orafolstrasse in Oranienburg. The old location has been given up. After the merger of ORAFOL Klebetechnik GmbH with Transatlantic H. Bernhardt GmbH in 2005, the company operates as ORAFOL EUROPE GmbH. Since the first production building was put into operation, the headquarters has grown steadily, so that around 800 people were employed here in 2016. Another expansion has increased the number of employees at the site to 1,000 by 2018. The company has been led by Holger Loclair since 1987, who has been with the company since 1977.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint
  2. ↑ Friedhelm Brennecke: Orafol continues to expand location . In: Märkische online newspaper . April 13, 2015 ( moz.de ).
  3. ↑ 25 million euros for new administration building - Orafol expands headquarters in Oranienburg. In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung . January 7, 2016, accessed November 20, 2016 .