01.05.2015 – 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 tiresome manual grinding with hand mortars. This innovation earned Retsch an excellent reputation in the international science and research community.
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 such as chemistry, food, construction, pharmaceuticals or environment. In the niche market of laboratory mills the company covers about a fifth of the world market with an annual turnover of 50 million euros; the export share amounts to more than 80%.
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