History
   

   
 1868 Foundation of the Company by Carl Albert and Emilie Greiner in Nürtingen/Stuttgart
   
 1878 While visiting the World Exhibition in Paris, Carl Albert Greiner acquires a cork cutting machine
   
 1899 Hermann Greiner (second eldest son of Carl Albert) is asked to build a cork plugging factory in Kremsmünster, Upper Austria
   
 1950 In the 1950s, the cork producing countries establish exorbitant export taxes for cork, what leads to increasing the production of polymers within the family company C.A.Greiner and Sons.

In the early 1950s, Erwin Greiner moves to Johannisthal (Schwanenstadt, Upper Austria) and starts to rebuild an acquired spinning company. This is said to be the actual start of Greiner PURtec.

   
 1965 Start of the foam production in Schwanenstadt
   
 1967 Merger and change of the corporate name to C.A. Greiner und Söhne, Kremsmünster. The spinning production is being stopped and a moulded foam production starts
   
 1980 Production of the first rigid foam insulation
   
 1983 The insulation production of the former nationalized Semperit AG is taken over
   
 1986 Start of the cushion production. Within the first year, about 100 pieces are being produced
   
 1998 Greiner PURtec becomes an independent company consolidated by the Greiner Holding AG
   
 1999 Greiner PURtec founds the Czech subsidiary Greiner PURtec spol.s.r.o. in Nyrsko
   
 2000 Emigration of the whole flexible insulating production from Schwanenstadt to Nyrsko
   
 2003 Start of the North-American subsidiary in Fort Worth, Texas
   
 2004 Takeover of the former Competitor Foliplast, Germany
   
 2005 Enlargement of the Czech subsidiary with a  moulding machine for the production of seats and dress covers
   
 2006 November – Inauguration of the Chinese subsidiary in Shanghai

December - Start of the seat production at Greiner PURtec, Inc. in Fort Worth, Texas

   
 2007 October - Change of company name of our German location from Foliplast to Greiner PURtec GmbH
   
 2008 Building of the new production facility in the Czech Republic
   
 2009 Start of Production in the new facility in Nyrsko, Cz
   
 2010  Opening of the strategic stock location in the UK

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