From garage business to world leader: igus founders celebrate 90th birthday
22/06/2021
igus founders Günter and Margret Blase jointly laid the foundation for the breakthrough of industrial motion plastics in 1964.
In 1964, Günter and Margret Blase founded a small business called igus in their garage in Cologne-Mülheim, Germany. Fast forward to 2021 and the company is a global brand, supplying customers worldwide with lubrication-free and maintenance-free motion plastics, robots and cable assemblies. The company is now celebrating the founding couple’s joint 90th birthday.
When Günter Blase visited igus on his 90th birthday, the company’s co-founder had a full view of the latest progress of the new factory building being constructed next to the headquarters in Cologne Porz-Lind, seen from miles away by the striking yellow pylons. igus manufactures motion plastics, high-performance polymers for dynamic applications. The tribopolymers igus that develops makes moving parts lubrication-free, quiet and light and are used all over the world – from theatres to mountain bikes and office furniture, as well as in offshore drilling rigs, crane systems, ships and space rockets.
igus founders Günter and Margret Blase jointly laid the foundation for the breakthrough of industrial motion plastics in 1964.
In 1964, Günter and Margret Blase founded a small business called igus in their garage in Cologne-Mülheim, Germany. Fast forward to 2021 and the company is a global brand, supplying customers worldwide with lubrication-free and maintenance-free motion plastics, robots and cable assemblies. The company is now celebrating the founding couple’s joint 90th birthday.
When Günter Blase visited igus on his 90th birthday, the company’s co-founder had a full view of the latest progress of the new factory building being constructed next to the headquarters in Cologne Porz-Lind, seen from miles away by the striking yellow pylons. igus manufactures motion plastics, high-performance polymers for dynamic applications. The tribopolymers igus that develops makes moving parts lubrication-free, quiet and light and are used all over the world – from theatres to mountain bikes and office furniture, as well as in offshore drilling rigs, crane systems, ships and space rockets.
The terms “igus”, “Apiro”, “chainflex”, “CFRIP”, “conprotect”, “CTD”, “drygear”, “drylin”, “dry-tech”, “dryspin”, “easy chain”, “e-chain”, “e-chain systems”, “e-chains”, “e-chain systems”, “e-skin”, “e-spool”, “flizz”, “ibow”, “igear”, “iglidur”, “igubal”, “kineKIT”, “manus”, “motion plastics”, “pikchain”, “plastics for longer life”, “readychain”, “readycable”, “ReBeL “, “speedigus”, “triflex”, “robolink” and “xiros” are legally protected trademarks in the Federal Republic of Germany and possibly also internationally