W. Steinhaus & Co. GmbH was founded in Mülheim in 1922, a period in which both the aftermath of the Great War and the first effects of the global economic crisis were clearly felt, and in which no little courage was needed to set up a new company. Wilhelm Heinrich Steinhaus, having previously gained experience as a sales engineer in the field of separation technology, nonetheless resolved on precisely this step. His still young enterprise was renamed “Siebtechnik GmbH“ in 1930. The founding of the first foreign subsidiaries then soon set the scene for the group’s international orientation. Robert Steinhaus, the founder’s grandnephew, took over management of the firm in 1974, following the death of Wilhelm Heinrich Steinhaus, and it is to him that the group owes the intensification of its international orientation; he laid the foundation stone for the company’s present-day size and global presence. Christian Steinhaus, after completing his studies...
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