“Deliver only the best” was one of the maxims of the company’s founder Robert Reiss. After more than 140 years of successful company history, it can be said that this claim has proven itself.
Find out everything about Robert Reiss, his time in Bad Liebenwerda and his company on the REISS ZWECK e.V. website.
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2020
Introduction of the switchless height adjustment REISS Touch; opening of Plant II in Lausitz with Industry 4.0
2018
Ground-breaking ceremony for the new Industry 4.0 plant with smart manufacturing; opening of showroom Frankfurt am Main; product chain certificate PEFC
2018
2017
SmartClean wins the Brandenburg Innovation Award; introduction of REISS Avaro standing-sitting table
2016
Delivery of 80,000th sit-stand desk since 1990
2016
2013
Entry into the EMAS register – REISS meets all requirements of the EU’s eco-management and auditing scheme
2012
2017 growth programme begins
Extensive investments in sustainable process design, state-of-the-art production systems and enterprise resource planning2012
2010
100 years of sit-stand expertise
REISS sit-stand products expanded to include crossbar-free sit-stand desks from the new REISS ECO N2 furniture range2009
New REISS information centre opened in Bad Liebenwerda
2009
2007
125 years of REISS: The company has successfully established itself on the market
Range expanded to include the high-quality REISS IDEALO furniture line2000
REISS initiates the REISS ZWECK design competition together with the Dresden University of Technology
2000
1998
The height-adjustable REISS ERGO office furniture range is launched
1996
Implementation of a environmental management system according to DIN EN ISO 14001
1996
1994
Implementation of a quality management system according to DIN EN ISO 9001
1993
REISS ReForm, the first office furniture range with sit-stand desk specially designed for CAD applications
1993
1990
A change and focus on developing, manufacturing and selling office furniture
1982
100 years of REISS: The company is Europe’s largest drawing machine manufacturer
1982
1960
Exports to 22 countries, and an increasing focus on producing drawing machinery and office furniture; export share of 80 percent
1957
75 years of REISS: Ten thousand drafting machines and more than 500,000 slide rules delivered to date
1957
1950
Development and production of drafting machines with height-adjustable, tilting drawing board, as well as office furniture specially designed for builders
1945
The company is dispossessed and complete dismantled – it owes its survival purely to the dedication of the REISS staff
1945
1928
The 20,000th measurement instrument is produced
1921
The first “Phoenix” carriage-type drafting machine – the legendary REISS board; REISS manufactures the first industrially ergonomic work stations
1921
1910
Development and production of the first “Reform” sit-stand desk
Measurement equipment is delivered to many European countries, South America, and the Russian tsar1904
Production of drafting machines, dye line printers and office furniture begins
1904
1882
Company founded by Robert Reiss as a mail-order business for measurement equipment and office supplies in Liebenwerda
