Company history

The 20th century opened up numerous opportunities for entrepreneurs thanks to new metalworking processes. Our company was set up in this era of change. Founded in Dresden in 1913, the company moved to Hockenheim after the Second World War. The racing town in northern Baden is still the location of Alfra's headquarters today.

Left: Company building in Hockenheim Talhaus
Right: Place of foundation Dresden

1978 Alfra took over the Greenlee Tool GmbH in Hanau. Since then, punches and tools for cabinet engineering are part of the Alfra-product range – today one of our key features.

Picture: hole punchers and hydraulic manual punches, made by Alfra: A good team for decades

In the 80‘s begun the success-story of another innovation: We developed our own metal-core-drilling-machines with the name ALFRA ROTABEST®. The product performed convincingly on the market because of a variety of user-friendly applications, such as the patented safety device for overhead-work.

Left and right: View into the history of our Alfra Rotabest line

The former design and manufacturing company AKM Berlin became its own Alfra plant in 2007. Hydraulic pumps, heavy-duty punching brackets and core drilling machines, among other things, are produced there on a production area of around 600 square metres.

Left: Production of core drilling machines at the Berlin Stahnsdorf plant
Right: Alfra factory Berlin Stahnsdorf

 Alfra becomes part of Rittal Automation Systems (RAS) under the umbrella of the Friedhelm Loh Group. Alfra thus serves the needs of companies requiring hand tools as well as those of enclosure manufacturers on the cusp of automation - as an ideal addition to the RAS product portfolio.