About us

Company timeline

• 1904

  Founding of our company

• 1928

  Diversification into plastics processing. Production of thermoset plastic parts starts; one of the first Swiss companies to start this

• 1931

  Move into thermoplastic processing; one of the first companies in Switzerland to do so

• 1977

  BRAC-WERKE AG is taken over by RH Group Holding, a Swiss corporation to which 14 other factories – predominantly active in the plastics and metal sector – are affiliated.

• 1990

  Inauguration of our new plastics plant with a production area covering 1,500 m2. The injection moulding capacity is thus able to be increased by 25 percent. Our product range currently includes over 4,000 items.

• 1993

  Takeover of the company HAAG in Weil der Stadt and integration into BRAC-WERKE as a separate department for production and trade in parts for the textile machine industry and weaving mills. This department is 90% active in exports and represented in approx. 75 countries around the world

• 1995

  Takeover of the activities of Plascon AG, Itingen, including personnel and machine park

• 1996

  Certification according to ISO standard 9001 by the Swiss Association for Quality and Management Systems (SQS)

• 2002

  Certification according to ISO standard 9001:2000

• 2009

  Certification according to ISO standard 9001:2008

• 2007

  Takeover of the plastics production from Bosch-Scintilla

• 2017

  Expansion of our machine park in the field of thermoset injection moulding as well as with the addition of the latest continuous deburring system

• 2018

  Re-certification according to ISO standard 9001:2015

• 2020

  Expansion of our machine park in the area of injection moulding. The latest all-electric machines with multi-axis handling devices

• 2021

  Expansion of our capacity in the large machine sector with a Kraus Maffei GX650-3000 BluePower