Fairy tales start with „once upon a time“ – an extraordinary story starts with a vision. We invite you to a stray through the Alfra-company history – because our roots are the basis for tools and machines matching with your high expectations.
The century was still young when new processes for manufacturing and processing metal parts changed the German economy. A.H Mehring recognised the opportunities in this market. In 1913, he founded a company for the manufacture of saws, which moved to Hockenheim after the Second World War. The racing town in northern Baden is still home to Alfra's headquarters today.
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 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 plant 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.
