Laboratory mills
Retsch celebrates 100th anniversary
One of the most successful companies in the laboratory market celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. In 1915 Friedrich Kurt Retsch founded the F. Kurt Retsch GmbH Co. KG, whole sale company for laboratory supplies in Duesseldorf, Germany. By 1923 the company’s first own piece of laboratory equipment was patented, a mortar grinder which became known worldwide as the “Retsch Mill” and replaced manual grinding with hand mortars. Today, Retsch holds numerous patents and is the leading manufacturer of lab equipment for the preparation and characterisation of solids in research and quality control. The company’s latest innovation, the high energy ball mill Emax, was launched in 2014 and allows ultrafine sample grinding down to the nanometer range. Retsch products are used in many different industries.
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