About 125 years Heinr. Betz Söhne

In autumn 1875 Heinrich Betz started to produce box locks in the blacksmith of Feckinghausen. 10 years later the first manual machines and tools has been purchased.

In 1906 his sons Houwald and Hugo took over the management. At this time the company was on his way up. Already 1907 the forge in Önkfeld, where the factory resettled, became a small manufacturing company. But soon the rooms became too small and that`s the reason why the property in Radevormwald was acquired by purchase. A manufactoring was constructed there and the headquarters were transferred to his present position.

Here the manufactoring of the locks stopped and they started to produce sliding door rollers. Now the company worked its way to the top and ranks still among the first companys of this industry today.

Unfortunately the company suffered losses in the management by the death of Hugo Betz 1951 and three years later of the death of Houwald Betz.

But giving up is no strength of the company. Between 1954 and 1959 the company was directed on trust by Mister W. Stoffel, Houwald Betz ‘s brother-in-law. A special assistant was Gerda Becker, Heinz Hermann Becker ‘s sister. In 1959 Heinz Hermann Becker joined the company, who was 22 years old at that time, and displaced Mister Stoffel 14 years later.
 

Under his guidance the company push on his trade beyond the boundaries of the FRG (Federal Republic of Germany). Business contacts were established with almost all European countries. The company’s name became noted for quality and trustworthiness by specialized trade and home improver.

The certification by DIN EN ISO 9001, for which the company worked for, attested this characteristics of the company.
 

In 1999 the brothers Bernhard and Manfred Kemper took over the management and ownership, for which Heinz Hermann Becker carry the responsibility for 42 years. The company , which called now Heinr. Betz Söhne GmbH & Co KG, was leaded up to the new millennium.
 

The brothers Bernhard and Manfred Kemper set their sights high. They wanted to put new products on the market and to be on course for further success. In the first year of the new millennium new innovations and progresses as an example the entrance in the “Tube drive systeme” or the expansion of the track program in stainless steel “V2A and V4A” got a chance.

This entrance called for high degree of flexibility, power and willingness to realize the extraordinary and to fulfil all costumer’s wishes.
That this entrance has been succeeded proves the good acception of the products by our costumers and the market. The company meets every day new challenges, which our employees opposed willingly.