Trodat
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| legal form | Limited Liability Company (GmbH) |
| founding | 1912 |
| Seat | Wels , Austria |
| management | Roland Rier, management spokesman Trodat, managing director |
| Number of employees | around 1000 (as of 2017 financial year) |
| sales | around EUR 120 million (as of 2017 financial year) |
| Branch | Stamp , laser , metal industry |
| Website | www.trodat.net |
| Status: 2017 | |
The Trodat GmbH is an Austrian company that is the world claims to be the largest stamp manufacturer. Trodat's head office is in Wels in Upper Austria and employs around 1000 people worldwide.
history
The "foundation stone" was laid in Vienna in 1912 with the establishment of the sole proprietorship Franz Just & Söhne.
In economically difficult times - World War II , zones of occupation, currency reform, compensation deals - the company moved to Wels in the American zone of occupation in 1951 with good national and international transport connections. The first exports to Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany followed.
The holding company was founded in 1987 as the parent company for foreign subsidiaries. 1999 was transformed into the foundation and corporate structure with management holding and operating companies. Today's Trodat Trotec Holding GmbH with over 40 subsidiaries in Germany and abroad employs more than 1550 people in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Great Britain, Poland, Canada, USA, South Africa, China, Japan, India, Russian Federation, Belgium, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Spain.
Trodat supplies customers in more than 150 countries around the world - the export quota is over 98 percent (as of 2017).
Group structure
The following companies belong to Trodat Trotec Holding GmbH:
- Trodat GmbH, Wels Austria
- Trotec Laser GmbH, Wels / Marchtrenk Austria
- Trodat Produktions GmbH, Wels Austria
The Trodat Trotec Holding GmbH group of companies comprises more than 40 domestic and foreign group companies. The group's total turnover in the last completed financial year was around EUR 249 million, the group employs around 1550 people worldwide and is managed by Norbert Schrüfer and Peter Köstler (as of 2017).
The name Trodat
The current company name (company) Trodat arose from a product name. The first plastic date stamps with the name Trodat were produced in 1947/48. Trodat is made up of the syllables Tro and dat .
Tro stands for Trolitul, a plastic that was previously used to produce stamps. Trolitul is a brand name of Dynamit Nobel AG , Troisdorf for at least 1961 for polystyrene, which was invented in the 1920s and which can be processed as a thermoplastic by injection molding, which was also developed in Germany from this time on. Starting with the thermoplastic nitrocellulose (Trolit F) found by Dynamit Nobel in 1919, chemical companies (one of them called Troplast) in Troisdorf (Cologne district) have given many of their plastics and products names that begin with Tro ...
dat is short for date stamp.
In the late 1960s, Trodat was officially renamed as the company.
Business areas
The products and services of the Trodat Trotec group of companies concentrate on the stamp business and the laser business :
- Trodat stamp components (www.trodat.net)
- Trotec laser systems (www.troteclaser.com)
Trodat claims to be the largest stamp manufacturer in the world based on sales and specializes in self-inking stamping devices, that is, stamps with a built-in ink pad. The Trodat Printy stamp - first generation market launch in 1976 - has already sold more than 300 million, according to the manufacturer.
E-commerce
To support the sale of Trodat stamps via the Internet, a software solution for ordering personalized stamps was developed under the name uTypia . The online ordering system has existed since 2000. According to information from Trodat, Trodat's resellers operate their products such as stamps, engravings and print via the Internet in more than 500 uTypia online shops worldwide.
Laser engraving devices
The subsidiary Trotec (founded in 1997) deals with laser systems and offers high-quality solutions and applications in the areas of engraving, marking and cutting.
Trodat company museum - Villa Muthesius
The Trodat company museum is located in Villa Pollheimerstraße 4, built in 1916–18 for the Wels leather manufacturer Ploberger, on the Welser Mühlbach opposite the Ledererturm , which was bought in 1997 and then renovated. The house is a building by Hermann Muthesius (1861–1927), founder of the Deutscher Werkbund.
The - formerly - (ENT doctor) Samitz villa is now offered as Villa Muthesius with 2 halls by the association Lebensspuren - The Association for Art & Culture, founded in 2016, as a space for events and also used.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Trolitul (Brochure from Dynamit Nobel AG, cover picture, 1961) Troisdorf plastics museum. - Brochure, 9 pages, content as PDF Kunststoffmuseum Troisdorf, September 12, 2012.
- ↑ Volker Hofmann: Notes on the Troisdorf plastics history, 1905–2013 PDF, approx. 47 p. - Views, products, company names.
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 '9.3 " N , 14 ° 3' 2.8" E