The story
In May 1912 the engineer Paul Craemer (1874–1940) founded the Press-, Stanz- und Hammerwerke GmbH for metal forming in the German town of Herzebrock, East-Westphalia. A rolling mill was established on the new premises on the outskirts of Herzebrock in 1928.
After the Second World War, the eldest grandson of the company founder, Hans-Joachim Brandenburg, began the reconstruction of the company. In the 1950s the company was recognised as a major supplier of parts for agricultural machinery. In 1958, Craemer opened a new business activity for plastics processing and started with the injection moulding of large containers. In 1967, the company developed the worldwide first plastic pallet moulded in one shot, for which they received a patent in the same year. In the 1980s waste disposal containers were included in the plastic product range. In the business field of metal forming, 1978 marked the demolition of the hot rolling mill and thus the final change to the processing of cold rolling sheets. In the 1980s Craemer became established as an automotive supplier, manufacturing metal formed parts for cars.
In 1997, the production started in the metal plant in Slovakia. In 2001, Craemer took over the Kliko-Entsorgunssysteme GmbH (Waste Disposal Systems), opened a plastics processing plant in Telford in 2006 and founded a distribution company in the Paris metropolitan area on May 1, 2009. In 2015, Craemer took over the SKA GmbH & Co. KG, a well-established, German metal processing company in Attendorn, Sauerland Region (Olpe district).
From Wikipedia’s article on Craemer Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4