History

1843Julius Pintsch founds a plumbing and gasfitting business in a basement in Berlin.
1847The first proprietary gas meter at the Breslau branch plant was manufactured.
1869A sensation: Pintsch delivers beacon for the newly opened Suez canal.
1870Julius Pintsch introduces train lighting fed by high-pressure oil gas at the railways.
1872The filament lamp factory was founded in Fürstenwalde. (Approx. 12,000 employees in 1936.)
1878Appointment of Julius Pinstch to the Royal Prussian Council of Commerce.
1907The businesses in Berlin, Fürstenwalde and Frankfurt were converted into Julius Pintsch AG.
1919Approx. 350,000 railway carriages are equipped with Pintsch lighting.
1924Julius Pintsch AG merged with Bamag Meguin.
1929The first electricity-based signaling systems were development and put into service.
1946After the war: The Julius Pintsch West-KG with headquarters in Frankfurt, Erkrath and Hamburg was founded.
1947Foundation of the production facility in Dinslaken on the former city stockyard.
 Product range: carbon pile voltage regulators, power conversion installations,
 rotary piston gas meters, railway vehicle equipment, signal construction, maritime aids to navigation, controlling and regulating systems in drive technology.
 At the first trade fair in Hannover the products exhibited are carbon pile voltage regulators and a power converter.
1953Merger of the limited partnerships in Konstanz, Dinslaken, Berlin, Köln and Butzbach to form the public limited company with approx. 5,500 employees and headquarters in Butzbach. Focal points: process engineering, metallurgical engineering, traffic technology, signaling technology etc.
1965Delivery to the German Federal Railways of the first electronic signaling system for the safeguarding of level crossings.
 1. PINTSCH BAMAG participates at the first post-war sea mark conference in Rome with.
1967PINTSCH BAMAG AG has been purchased by Baron Hans-Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza.
 Transfer of the transportation technology from Berlin to Dinslaken.
1970Founding of the PINTSCH BAMAG Antriebs- und Verkehrstechnik GmbH (Owner: STROMAG GmbH, Unna) Takeover of the plant in Dinslaken.
1987PINTSCH BAMAG Antriebs- und Verkehrstechnik GmbH was purchased by Schaltbau GmbH, München
1994The subsidiary PINTSCH ABEN with headquarters in Maarssen, the Netherlands was founded. Focal point: point heating installations.
1997Takeover of the manufacturing of the affiliated company GEZ, Frankfurt.
 Takeover of the product category warning technology of the affiliated company Wander & Goltermann Kommunikationselektronik, Eningen.
2003Takeover of the product group current collectors of the affiliated company InfoSystems, Wuppertal.
2006Sale of the product segment current collectors to FERRAZ SHAWMUT, France
2007Purchase of BUBENZER BREMSEN Gerhard Bubenzer Ing. GmbH, Kirchen-Wehbach
 PINTSCH ABEN geoterm GmbH was founded
 
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