Ritex
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1948 |
| Seat | Bielefeld , Germany |
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| Number of employees | approx. 60 |
| Branch | Condoms and lubricants |
| Website | www.ritex.de |
The Ritex GmbH with headquarters and production in Bielefeld distributes condoms from natural rubber latex and lubricant . The Ritex brand - an acronym from the surname of the company founder (Richter) and the name for the raw material (latex) from which condoms are made - was registered as a trademark by Hans Richter in 1950.
history
In 1948, Hans Richter founded a company for trading condoms in Bielefeld. Two years later, Ritex was registered as a trademark. In 1982 Hans-Roland Richter, son of the company founder, joined the company management. With the entry of Robert Richter at the end of 2007, the company has now been fully family-owned for three generations.
In the mid-1980s, the immune deficiency disease AIDS came into public interest. Suddenly the condom became the decisive contraceptive in the fight against the spread of the immune deficiency disease and was the focus of health policy work and education . In 1993, the Council of the European Communities passed Directive 93/42 / EEC on medical devices . This guideline assigned condoms to medical devices in the particularly high risk class IIb.
In 1994 Ritex therefore decided to build a new production facility for condoms in Bielefeld. Just one year later, production began on the first immersion system in the newly built production facility. In 2004 the production area was expanded by 70 percent and the technical capacity for condom production expanded by 50 percent.
According to its own information, Ritex produced 120 million condoms per year in 2015 and processed 180 tons of latex annually.
All Ritex condoms are manufactured exclusively on our own facilities in Bielefeld.
Products
Ritex sells various condom products (e.g. also advertising condoms), lubricants and protective covers for ultrasonic probes.
Contributions to health education
Along with Mapa (Billy Boy, Fromms, Blausiegel) and London Rubber (today: Durex ), Ritex was a founding member of the German Latex Research and Development Association (dlf). The dlf was founded on January 12, 1971 with the aim of creating a quality mark for condoms with high test and quality requirements in order to differentiate themselves from cheap and low-quality condom products. On January 26, 1981, the dlf seal of approval was introduced, which identified products that met the special quality requirements of the dlf standard.
In December 1989, the German legislature adopted the dlf standard and decreed that only condoms that met the quality standard of the dlf standard (RAL RG 203) or the DIN standard draft 58 993 could be sold in Germany. Since then, the dlf had further developed its standard in order to be able to use its seal of approval to mark condoms that were of a higher quality than just the minimum legal requirement.
As an association of condom manufacturers, the dlf dissolved on December 31, 2016. As a new central point of contact for all questions about condoms, the Condoms Department (FBK) in the Federal Association of Medical Technology BVMed was founded. Founding members of the "Fachbereich Kondome" (FBK) are the two German condom manufacturers Ritex and CPR , who claim to account for around 80 percent of German condom production. Spokesmen for this department are Hans-Roland Richter (Ritex) and Dr. Helmut Storandt (CPR). The contact person at BVMed is Elke Vogt, head of the Consumer Protection / Medical Technology department.
In order to support the teachers during the educational classes, Ritex provides free training packages for schools. These packages contain a DVD with a film about the condom production, a wooden model with dry (= without lubricant) condoms for practical application exercises, a unit of free samples and a reference to the download area for teaching material such as "The Little Ritex Condom ABC", a presentation for class and other materials.
Ritex supports various public and non-profit organizations such as the BZgA and Pro Familia (Germany) with donations in kind, joint advertising campaigns, with consultations and in other ways.
Web links
- Official Ritex website
- Official website of the "Department of Condoms" (FBK) Federal Association of Medical Technology (BVMed)
- Press release of March 8, 2016 - "Condoms department" founded at BVMed
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ritex Factsheet (PDF) ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Stand 2013
Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 34.7 " N , 8 ° 37 ′ 25.2" E