Present
The RUDOLF GROUP manufactures in 8 countries, owns 20 foreign subsidiaries and 30 agencies worldwide and currently has more than 1,000 employees around the world.
2013
An administration building is refurbished with the latest IT and communication technology, the third production hall is built.
2010-2011
RUDOLF SIZING in Brazil and RUDOLF POLYMERS in Indonesia are founded.
2007
Expansion and modernisation
of production and the laboratories in Geretsried
2007
The Bavarian State Ministry gives RUDOLF the prize for renewable raw materials.
2005
Voluntary commitment
to participation in the Bavarian Environmental Pact
1997
First joint
certification of development and production in accordance with DIN EN ISO 9001 and 14001.
1992-2007
More production operations
are founded abroad: 1992 Hong Kong, 1995 Indonesia, 1997 Brazil, 1998 Turkey and USA, 2005 Pakistan, 2007 India.
1990
A high-bay warehouse
with the latest storage technology for raw materials and finished goods is put into operation
1984
The first overseas production operation is founded: RUDOLF South Africa
1971
Administration department
is expanded by enlarging hall 94
1970
Dipl. Economist Wolfgang Schumann
joins the company.
1968
Construction
of a production hall for chemical conversion (hall A).
1956 - 1959
A boiler house
is refurbished, completion of construction and furnishing of a production hall for fitting (hall B)
1952
The first
office building is constructed
1951
RUCONETZER S, a universal wetting agent for textile finishing processes, which is initially unrivalled in the textile auxiliary agents market, is brought to market.
1950
The first
structural extension: construction of a shipping warehouse
1948
The „Voralpenwerke“
industrial association is founded by 17 Geretsried-based companies, including RUDOLF & Co.
1947
The production of textile auxiliary agents and chemical-technical products (hand cleaners, for example) begins in spring. The first Pfaudler chemical reactor is put into operation.
1946
RUDOLF & Co.
are assigned buildings 93 and 94 of a former ordnance factory for producing textile auxiliary agents.
1945
RUDOLF & Co. in Warnsdorf
is placed under national management by the Czech state and confiscated. The branch in Zittau is later also turned into a „Publically Owned Operation“ (Volkseigener Betrieb). Ernst and Wolfgang Schumann tour West Germany under primitive travel conditions in order to investigate the options for establishing a production company. On 13 December 1945, RUDOLF & Co. receives a „work permit for the production of textile auxiliary agents“ in Geretsried from the State Authority for Chemistry in Munich.
1942
Wolfgang Schumann,
who had been discharged from the army with a serious war wound, becomes a partner.
1926
A branch
is founded in Zittau in Saxony, near the German-Czech border.
1924
Eng. Ernst Schumann (1884-1965), businessman and representative of Farbwerke Höchst in Reichenberg from 1908, takes over the company.
1922
Chemical engineer Reinhold Rudolf, who had relevant experience in the production of chemical-technical products and, in particular, of textile auxiliary agents, founds the RUDOLF & Co. chemical factory in Warnsdorf in Northern Bohemia