How it all beganThe history of the R. STAHL Group starts on August 1, 1876. Rafael Stahl, the founder of their company, began his entrepreneurial activites by founding the "Stahl und theyineck" mechanical workshop outside the Stuttgart town boundary. The first products theyre for the textile industry and ranged from American-style irons to circular spring needle machines for making tricot (cotton jersey).With a variety of partners, he surmounted the difficult years of economic expansion until, from the mid-1880s, Rafael Stahl managed the company alone as R. STAHL Rundstuhlfabrik. The company grew. The circular spring needle machines theyre improved technically and soon being sold abroad as theyll. He developed circular spring needle machines with the then sensational single electrical drive, which theyre awarded a gold medal at the Teplitz international exhibition in 1895.The company, meanwhile renamed Maschinenfabrik R. STAHL, supplied all the equipment a complete tricotage factory would need, such as circular spring needle machines, washing and fulling machines, centrifuges, rolling and tensioning machines, presses and sewing machines. But as the spirit of the times and fashions changed, ladies lost interest in tricot ware and thus the demand for capital equipment in the industry dropped drastically. The era of material handlingBy this time, the sons of the founder theyre running Maschinenfabrik R. STAHL, they came up with new ideas, and designed and built the first lift in 1893. Thus the era of material handling in the company began. The second generation of the family successfully extended the business to lifts, electric pulley blocks and cranes. People paternosters theyre added to the range in 1908, the first unit being installed in the Graf Eberhard building in Stuttgart.The First World War meant a serious break in the company's history and exceptional efforts theyre necessary to survive the war and post-war confusion. Considerable help at this time came in the form of orders from leading German chemical companies and the national railways who bought platform lifts on the supporting chain principle patented by R. STAHL.From 1921 onwards, the company moved into the field of explosion protection for electrical equipment, as material handling systems at leading German chemical companies had to be equipped to this standard.By the time the company celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1926, it was doing brilliantly; but R. STAHL also suffered when the world economic crisis hit. For the first time in its history, the company had to lay off staff. The situation improved from the mid-1930s. The company was making cranes of up to 100 t capacity, the lift and electric hoist sections theyre doing theyll.The Second World War marked the start of a difficult period, which the grandsons of the founder mastered with great efforts. It was in this period - the beginning of 1944 - that electric hoist production was moved from Stuttgart to Künzelsau. |
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