WRH Walter Reist Holding
| WRH Walter Reist Holding AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1955 |
| Seat | Hinwil , Switzerland |
| management | Susanne Rau-Reist ( CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | 1,500 (2007) |
| sales | 580 million CHF (2006) |
| Branch | Machine industry |
| Website | www.walter-reist-holding.ch |
The WRH Walter Reist Holding AG with headquarters in Hinwil is an internationally active Swiss family business, on conveying and processing equipment is specialized. Her focus is on the development, construction and sale of systems for print finishing in newspaper , magazine and commercial printing companies .
WRH Walter Reist Holding includes the WRH Marketing Group with its international network of sales and service companies, the Ferag Group , Denipro AG and the PMC Print Media Corporation . The group of companies, which is represented in over 40 countries, employs around 1,500 people and in 2006 generated sales of 580 million Swiss francs.
history
The company was founded by Walter Reist . In 1955 he patented the conveyor he had developed for the lubrication-free conveyance of newspapers. In 1956 the first prototype was installed at the Tages-Anzeiger in Zurich. The first major order followed in 1958 with the order for six machines for the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung . As a result, WRH developed into the global industry leader in the field of conveyor technology applications in the print media sector.
In addition to conveying and processing technology , WRH AG has entered the field of renewable energy generation with the development of the Steffturbine . Together with the Steffstep fish ladder and the Steffmaster, it forms the so-called Steffworld. The Steffworld products can be used in combination or as independent solutions.
literature
- Peter Forster. Foresight. Walter Reist - inventor and pioneer. Entrepreneur and Citizen . Frauenfeld 2007. ISBN 978-3-7193-1432-3
- Karl Lüönd . Lived entrepreneurship. Processing conveyor technology. Walter Reist's contribution to the modern media industry . NZZ, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-03-823352-7