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Innovation is our Tradition

With this maxim, we refer to our innovative company founder Extinguish before ignition. Today, our spark detectors monitor
who founded the FAGUS shoe last factory in 1911. Even then industrial processes in over 200,000 installations around the
he had the courage to engage the visionary, but unnoticed world, not only in the woodworking industry, but also in many
Walter Gropius, who became an internationally renowned other production processes. This makes us proud, and it fi lls
architect, to build his factory, which today is regarded as the me with joy to see how many innovations have developed
origin of the modern age building. UNESCO designated the from our original idea!
Fagus Factory as a World Cultural Heritage Site in 2011. With
an extensive restoration, the factory is in very good condi- Kai Greten (Managing Director of GreCon)
tion, still in operation and owned by the family. In 1970, our
company experienced further innovation. My uncles Gerd
and Ernst took over FAGUS, the shoe last production that
continues operations today, and founded GreCon. Today, we
are suppliers of measuring systems especially for the wood
industry and spark extinguishing systems.

In 1973, my grandfather supplied a complete particleboard
plant to Russia in which it burned several times a day. He could
not just tolerate this and asked his sons to think of something
to reduce the risk of fi re. Ernst and Gerd Greten thought
whether it was possible to detect sparks and to extinguish
them before they cause fi re or an explosion. The idea of a
spark detection and extinguishment system was born.

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