Roth Composite Machinery celebrates 100 years in filament winding, coatings

Roth Composite Machinery (Steffenberg, Germany) celebrated a double anniversary: 60 years of filament winding expertise going back to the original company, Bolenz & Schäfer, and 40 years of coating expertise from the original company, EHA. “We look back on a total of 100 years of curiosity, innovative strength and skill,” says managing director Dr. Andreas Reimann.

Roth Composite Machinery emerged from the merger of three long-established companies from northern and central Hesse. Since 1963, R&D has been carried out in the field of filament winding technology at the former company Bolenz & Schäfer in Biedenkopf-Eckelshausen, Germany, technology of which Roth is a globally recognized and sought-after player. Steffenberg-based EHA, involved in coating technologies, was founded in 1983. The companies became part of the Roth Industries Group in 1989 and 1995, respectively, though initially continuing to operate under their own names.

In 1999, Bolenz & Schäfer’s filament winding machinery business was transferred to EHA. In 2016, EHA and the Burgwald-based company Schlesinger were merged and renamed Roth Composite Machinery. Since then, under the motto “Your Performance – made by Roth,” Roth Composite Machinery has stood for machine concepts that are individually adapted to customer needs worldwide and are characterized by a high degree of specialization and quality.

“We are celebrating the double anniversary of two significant roots of our company Roth Composite Machinery,” says the CEO of the Roth Industries Group, Matthias Donges. “We want to take these impressive figures as an opportunity to provide an insight into the company and current projects and to pay tribute to our joint, successful development.” 

Reimann thanks Roth’s employees: “Without your daily commitment, your curiosity, your inventiveness and your diligence, our joint success would be unthinkable.”