RÖHM GmbH
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| Founded | 1909 |
| Founder | Heinrich Röhm |
| Headquarters | Sontheim/Brenz, Germany |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Dr.-Ing. Michael Fried, CEO |
| Products | chucking tools |
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Number of employees
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1500 |
| Website | www.roehm.biz |
RÖHM is a German chucking tool manufacturer. It was founded in 1909 by Heinrich Röhm. Its headquarters is in Sontheim/Brenz Germany. RÖHM’s range of products includes drill chucks, live centers, face drivers, lathe chucks and independent chucks as well as vices, gripping technology, power chuck technology, mandrels and tool clamping systems. RÖHM currently counts approximately 1500 employees. The company’s products offer solutions especially for the automobile industry, engineering, the energy sector, rail vehicles and aerospace. From the 1950s until 2010, they also manufactured a line of inexpensive firearms under the Röhm Gesellschaft (RG) division. In 2010, RG was sold to Umarex.
RÖHM was founded in 1909 in Zella-Mehlis, Thuringia by Heinrich Röhm. Its first product was a two-jaw drill chuck. In 1910 the first patent – improved drill chucks – was filed. Export business started the same year. Due to the influences of World War I production came to a standstill and resumption turned out to be difficult after the end of the war. In 1926, RÖHM started the production of key-type drill chucks. It was the first company in Germany to do so. The following years the manufacturing plants were modernized and extended. Between 1939 and 1940, a 40m conveyor belt for the production of drill chucks was put into service. Therefore, for the first time, a company produced precision tools in mass production and RÖHM was said to be the most modern and efficient factory of its industry.
In 1945, the company, which by then employed 1400 people, was occupied by the Americans and Heinrich Röhm was evacuated to Heidenheim an der Brenz with his family. The new rulers in East Germany occupied the intact factory and turned it into a nationally-owned company. In 1946, the family moved to Sontheim/Brenz, where Heinrich Röhm decided at the age of 63 to reconstruct his company with the support of his sons. Without capital and without a plot of land the company was set up again from scratch. First of all, children's toys were made from plywood and wood waste in a leased carpentry. With the production of rock drills a change was made again to the business of metal machining. The same year, land was purchased and a barrack was constructed in order to reconstruct the RÖHM factory. The production, which started the following year, once more involved key-type drill chucks. Former clients supported the reconstruction by showing trust, placing orders and demanding the resumption of the past product range.
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