1931 | Carl Kurt Walther founds the company in Wuppertal with the WALTHER-TROWAL division. It focuses on the manufacture and sale of machinery, systems and processes for surface finishing through vibration or slide grinding, which has become known globally as Trowalizing (TROWAL® = TROmmel WALther). |
1951 | WALTHER-PRÄZISION was founded during the 50s to meet the demands made by the company founder for a quick connector for the connection and disconnection of supply lines for a range of production machines manufactured by his company Carl Kurt Walther, Wuppertal. |
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Factory 2 and Factory 3, Wuppertal-Vohwinkel | |
1955 | Relocation to a modern administration building with production sites and a significantly larger development and testing department in Wuppertal-Vohwinkel. |
1961 | Extension of the administration building and erection of warehouses, after considerably increased business volume. |
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1965 | Purchase of a site and erection of additional factories with office building for design, production and storage at the Wuppertal site. |
1966 | Development and delivery of the first clean-break mono-couplings for fuelling the European launch vehicle, predecessor of the subsequent ARIANE 1. |
1967 | Development and delivery of manually operated 52way multi-couplings, used on a test bench by Rolls-Royce for jet engines. |
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1968 | Delivery of further developed mechanically operated multi-couplings to Rolls-Royce for jet engine test benches. |
1970 | WALTHER-PRÄZISION manufactures mono-couplings for medical apparatus technology, for use in dialysis and heart-lung machines. |
1972 | Delivery of mono-couplings for engine hydraulics in the multipurpose combat aircraft TORNADO. |
1973 | Electrically codable mono-couplings prevent confusion and reliably indicate the connection status of pipe systems in the chemicals and pharmaceuticals industry. |
1974 | Production sites relocated to the Haan - Ost Industrial Park on the A46, with its good transport links. Foundation of the first English subsidiary. |
1975 | WALTHER-PRÄZISION fits nuclear research plants with mono-couplings and multi-couplings, partly already with metal seals, for radioactive environments. |
1977 | Foundation of a second English subsidiary |
1980 | The first German nuclear power plants are fitted with mono-couplings. |
1982 | Multi-couplings, made from seawater-resistant stainless steel, are used on drilling platforms for hydraulic operation of the drilling tools under water. |
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1983 | Robot tool changers used in automotive production, e.g. in bodywork construction for program-controlled changing of welding pliers and grippers. |
1984 | Foundation of the French subsidiary. Foundation of the subsidiary in the USA. |
1985 | Further relocation of more production and office units to the Haan - Ost industrial park, closely located to the A46. |
1990 | Development and delivery of detachable test connections for nuclear power plants in order to check the cooling water for radioactivity. |
1992 | Introduction of a DIN EN ISO 9001 quality management system. |
1993 | WALTHER-PRÄZISION supplies mono-couplings (Fill and Drain System) with documented production for ARIANE 5. |
1995 | The monocouplings with metal seals used in the offshore area undergo considerable further development in order to decisively extend the lifetimes of the fittings when used underwater. |
1996 | In the International Space Station, or ISS, Columbus, mono-couplings are supplied to cool the onboard equipment (Cooling System of Electrical Equipment). The European Science Laboratory docked with the International Space Station in February 2008. |
1997 | Development and delivery of mono-couplings for deep-sea use (depths of 3,000 metres), which prevent water from penetrating the hydraulic system, even when uncoupled. |
1999 | 6,000-bar high-pressure hydraulic couplings shorten fitting times when connecting the energy supply to forming dies used in series production. |
2000 | Head office and the overwhelming part of the production relocates from Wuppertal to the neighbouring Haan-Ost / Rheinland Industrial Park on the A46, with its good transport links, into buildings erected additionally. All jobs are retained. |
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Headquarters and Production Facilities, Haan | |
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2001 | Erection of an automatic high-bay storage facility in order to increase flexibility and to reduce delivery times substantially. |
2005 | WALTHER-PRÄZISION delivers the world's first 850 bar refuelling coupling to Linde GAS GmbH and Adam Opel GmbH (GM) for the 700 bar refuelling of hydrogen-powered cars. |
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2007 | Innovative low-temperature couplings are supplied for research projects in the automotive industry, to enable the refuelling with liquid hydrogen at -253 °C. |
2009 | Mounting couplings replace screw joints in and on automotive industry and engineering products. In addition to the space-saving design, mounting times are considerably shortened. |
2012 | Opening of our fully modernised hall extension with 7,000 m2 of logistics and production space at the head office in Haan / Rheinland. Here, modern assembly and office workstations are used to manufacture and test primarily multicouplings and docking systems. |
2013 | PETROBRAS center for research and development awarded the "Intelligent Dual Hot Stab" designed for deep-sea oil production with the Innovation Award. |
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2015 | The new DD series quick-coupling system is specially developed and successfully used in high temperature chemistry, for high thermal load hydraulic applications, for synthesis processes, and for special areas of petrochemicals. |
2017 | The fully-automated high-bay warehouse constructed in 2001 is extended by 100%. Additional storage space guarantees more efficient order processing. |
2021 | Expansion of our testing and inspection capacities with a 36 m³ test basin for underwater high-pressure gas tests up to 1000 bar and hydrostatic tests up to 7000 bar. |