About igus®
Innovation with Polymers
The story of igus® begins on 15th October 1964 with Günter Blase in a double garage in Cologne-Mülheim.
For the first twenty years, we worked as a supplier of complex technical polymer components.
In 1983 Frank Blase starts our own product lines Energy Chain Systems® and polymer bearings as well as a network of sales engineers.
Between 1985 and 2013, we grew from 40 to more than 2150 igus® employees, distributed the world over.
We will continue to invest in expansion for the coming years.
The opportunities are there thanks to modern materials!
igus® Solar System our organisation since 1989
"To manage" actually translates into "Accomplishing a task successfully".
This activity is supported by detailed catalogues in paper and CD-ROM format,
as well as this fully comprehensive website.
A few facts:
igus® was founded in 1964
locations in 30 countries and partners in another 69 countries
Currently approx. 2150 employees worldwide
Between 1500 and 2500 new products every year
We have an open system everyone can directly contact anyone else, we all work at identical desks, have the same uniform, eat the same food at our cafeteria and go to the same toilets.
We constantly engage in further training in the area of products, software programs, foreign languages, company seminars, group courses, technical seminars for business personnel and much more.
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Frank Blase
