WAREMA Group

Over the past six decades, the WAREMA Group has developed into a strong company group. In addition to the founding brand WAREMA, the family-owned company now combines several companies and their associated brands in the Sun & Living Spaces and Plastics & Engineering divisions. Hans-Wilhelm Renkhoff and Karl-Friedrich Wagner founded the company WARE... MA in Marktheidenfeld in Lower Franconia. Their starting capital: one product namely light metal venetian blinds with five employees and a great deal of motivation, grit and determination. Extension of the product range: along with venetian blinds, WAREMA then also produced roller blinds, with aluminium roller shutters following shortly after. The practical prefabricated roller shutter became a best seller. The initial production facilities in various buildings in the centre of Marktheidenfeld soon became too small. So in 1960, construction was started on the first section of what was to become today's company headquarters. In 1961 the company then moved to the new facilities on the street ueren Ring. Since then, hardly a year has passed in which expansions and additions have not been necessary. WAREMA took part in the first roller shutter trade fair, then called R'65, now R+T, the leading fair in the world today for roller shutters, gates and sun shading. To this day WAREMA has remained loyal to this trade fair and has since become one of the largest exhibitors at the Stuttgart-based fair. Many of our products have been awarded the coveted Innovation prize at this industry meeting. The product range grew even more - new highlights were awnings, vertical louvre blinds and black-out systems. Not all components required for these were available on the market. That's why WAREMA began manufacturing plastic parts and control components, but also many special machines and tools, itself. In order to be close to specialist partners and customers, WAREMA had a nationwide network of distributors from early on, and after 1989, it was also represented in the new eastern states ...Read More