| 1877 |
Gustav Rau founded the company for the manufacture of pressings from gold and silver alloys |
| 1897 |
Move into an own corporate building By then the production program also included the manufacturing of semi-finished products from precious metals, non-precious metals, their alloys and from doublé |
| 1903 |
Introduction of modern mechanical production |
| 1925 |
Expansion of our production program through the manufacturing of specialty products for electrical and apparatus engineering, thermobimetal, contact bimetal, contacts and specialty tubing... |
| 1952 |
The increasing demand for specialty products resulted in an expansion of our delivery program for all technical products as well as in the expansion of our facility |
| 1967 |
Construction of our second plant in Pforzheim, Germany
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| 1972 |
Second phase of construction in our second plant
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| 1992 |
Semi-finished products for the medical engineering were added to our range of products
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| 1993 |
G.RAU founded the subsidiary company Euroflex GmbH with NDC as a sales company for Nitinol products as well as for other semi-finished products for the medical engineering industry
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| 2002 |
Completion of the new building of plant II (Seperate new rooms for the production of semi-finished products for medical engineering)
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| 2006 |
High-purity production of contact parts, purity defined and specified by maximum rest particles (size and amount) Packaging within the production line in blisters
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| 2007 |
Further expansion of the tube drawing production with the aim of increasing our supply to the automobile industry G.RAU purchases 50% of the EUROFLEX shares from its Joint Venture Partner NDC (a Johnson & Johnson company) and now holds 100% of the EUROFLEX shares. Due to this purchase G.RAU holds 66,67 % of the ADMEDES Schuessler GmbH in Pforzheim. |
| 2008 |
EUROFLEX becomes a shareholder of NDC, Fremont USA, which parted from Johnson & Johnson and is now an independent company ADMEDES founds its overseas branch in Livermore, USA, named ADMEDES Inc. Series production readiness of the cold plating process New construction software for FEM calculation (stress simulation) |
| 2009 |
Advancements in the development of wire compound production by the use of new material combinations Expansion of our measuring rooms (Werth Scope-Check 3D, outline indicator CT-Matic, Formtester Rondcum 44) Foil stamping of plated strips of up to 60 µm Circular cutting to achieve flat edge trimming of cups in the production of deep drawn parts |
| 2010 |
Expansion of the tube production in order to enable ID surface treatments ADMEDES launches its US production line. |
| 2012 |
Foundation of RAU PRECISION METALS S.A. in Costa Rica to produce tubes for the medical technologies. |
| 2013 |
The third production site in Pforzheim covering an area of 1600 m² has been taken into service.
New and larger production premises for future-oriented production of deep-drawn parts. |
| 2014 |
The extension of the company building in Costa Rica covering 2650 m² of production space.
Start of serial production. Establishment of a subsidiary in the US G.RAU Inc. |
| 2015 |
Acquisition of the shares of ADMEDES Schuessler GmbH - G.RAU Group is now sole owner of ADMEDES Schuessler GmbH. |
