Otto Ganter standard parts factory

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Otto Ganter GmbH & Co. KG standard parts factory

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1894
Seat Furtwangen in the Black Forest , Germany
management Stefan Ganter
Branch mechanical engineering
Website www.ganternorm.com

The Otto Ganter GmbH & Co. KG Standard Parts Factory is established in 1894 mechanical engineering company with headquarters in Furtwangen in the Black Forest . It produces and sells standard elements for a wide variety of industries and applications under the brand names Ganter Griff and Elesa + Ganter . With the Ganter standard he introduced, founder Otto Ganter is considered a pioneer in standardization.

history

The company was founded on January 1st, 1894 by Otto Ganter as a mechanical workshop for the production of metal components. Furtwangen, which is still the company's headquarters today, was considered a center of German watch and precision engineering. In 1912 Ganter brought together its products in a catalog that standardized the range. The resulting Ganter standard (GN) is still the basis for standard parts from many other well-known manufacturers.

A strategic partnership has existed since 1971 with the Italian company Elesa SpA in Monza , which primarily manufactures standard plastic elements that complement the Ganter range, which is traditionally geared towards metal materials. For this purpose, Elesa + Ganter Austria GmbH was founded in a joint venture by taking over Robert Ulrich GmbH . From that time on, standard elements were sold in joint subsidiaries worldwide under the Elesa + Ganter brand .

In 2011 Ganter acquired the majority of JWWinco Inc. in order to expand in the North American market. The company with 40 employees in New Berlin (Wisconsin) supplies customers in the USA and Mexico as well as through its subsidiary JWWinco Canada Inc. in Canada.

Between 2012 and 2013 Ganter built a new turning shop in Rheinhausen im Breisgau .

In 2014 Elesa + Ganter Austria GmbH initiated the first Austrian Standard Parts Award

In 2015, a new high-bay warehouse was built at Plant I in Furtwangen.

Ganter is run as a family company in the fourth generation and in 2016 was one of the world's largest suppliers of standard parts for operating and clamping as well as fixture and machine elements.

Normalization

Company founder Otto Ganter is considered a pioneer of standardization with the Ganter standard he introduced . As early as 1912, five years before the introduction of the German industrial standard DIN (1917), he began to standardize his own product portfolio and summarize it in a first catalog. The core idea of ​​this strategy, later referred to as the Ganter Standard (GN), was to move from customer-specific one-off production to economical series production, to store the parts and to deliver them individually on demand.

This principle still forms the entrepreneurial basis for Ganter today; the product portfolio has grown continuously over the decades. In the meantime, the 15th edition of the print catalog has been supplemented by digital product directories. For many years Ganter has also been mentioned in design manuals as a supplier of DIN components and standard parts.

Products

The Ganter range currently includes around 50,000 standard elements such as: handles , knobs , hinges , handwheels and cranks , clamping and tensioning levers, adjustable slides or position indicators. Depending on the area of ​​application, the elements are also made of stainless steel , as well as antibacterial or medical plastics. Further specialties are ESD-compliant and explosion-protected standard elements. Customer-specific modifications or custom-made products can also be implemented in small quantities. Ganter supplies a wide variety of industries with its standard elements, but primarily companies from the manufacturing of capital goods, mechanical and plant engineering. Ganter is in possession of over 130 patents and utility models .

In addition to awards such as the State Prize of the Design Center Baden-Württemberg several times, the Compasso d'Oro and the Red Dot Design Award , Ganter products have received the iF Product Design Award 33 times . For example:

  • 2014 the bow-shaped device handle GN 423
  • 2015 the ETH-AN tubular handle and the MPR folding handle with spring return

Corporate structure

  • Otto Ganter Normteilefabrik Beteiligungs-GmbH, Furtwangen
    • Otto Ganter Normteilefabrik Geschäftsführungs-GmbH, Furtwangen
      • Otto Ganter GmbH & Co. KG standard parts factory
        • Plant I in Furtwangen GermanyGermanyGermany  World icon
        • Plant II in Rheinhausen GermanyGermanyGermany  World icon
    • Elesa + Ganter Austria GmbH, Brunn am Gebirge AustriaAustriaAustria  World icon
    • JWWinco Inc., New Berlin (Wisconsin) United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 

Publications

  • Ganter standard elements catalog (17th edition)
  • Who is Ganter . Lecture at the technical college in Mühlhausen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint
  2. ↑ a b c Jens Wursthorn: Growing up with the norm. Südkurier , December 9, 2011, accessed July 27, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b To success with SUPER technopolymer. (PDF) In: New Business. Accessed July 30, 2016 (edition 40/2013).
  4. ↑ New building turning shop. In: Projects. Architectural firm Poldi Messmer, archived from the original on February 1, 2015 ; Retrieved July 29, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Rheinhausen as a business location develops with further business settlements. (PDF) In: Official Gazette 23 / Kw22. Rheinhausen community, May 29, 2009, accessed on July 29, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Presentation of the first Austrian standard parts award. Cadenas, May 20, 2014, accessed July 27, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Construction of a new high-bay warehouse for Otto Ganter in Furtwangen. In: Projects. Martina Münster, accessed on July 29, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Otto Ganter GmbH. In: Autocad magazine. WIN-Verlag, October 3, 2015, accessed on July 28, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Klaus-Jörg Conrad: Fundamentals of construction theory: methods and examples for mechanical engineering . 4th edition. Carl Hanser Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-41408-2 , pp. 226 . At Google Books
  10. ^ Matuszewski Heinrich: Handbook devices: construction and use . reprint of the original 1st ed. Vieweg + Teubner, 1986, ISBN 978-3-528-04005-5 , pp. 426 . At Google Books
  11. ↑ Erwin Lemke: Fixture construction Economic and humane design of manufacturing equipment . Springer, ISBN 978-3-322-96734-3 , pp. 64 . At Google Books
  12. ^ Research: Otto Ganter at the German Patent and Trademark Association
  13. ↑ Ganter handles received the iF Product Design Award 2014. In: O + P Fluidtechnik. Vereinigte Fachverlage, February 10, 2014, archived from the original on July 28, 2016 ; accessed on July 28, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Excellent industrial designs . In: Bauforum. Österreichischer Wirtschaftsverlag, October 3, 2015, accessed on July 28, 2016 .
  15. ↑ a b c Otto Ganter. Moneyhouse, accessed July 28, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Federal Corporation Information - 763965-1. Government of Canada, accessed July 29, 2016 .