For over 275 years ...
1735
Foundation
1753
Johann Jakob Gienanth takes the factory at rent
1857
Company health insurance fund
1882
Administration building erected
1950
Manufacture of heavy engine blocks
1964
Start of large-scale production for the automotive industry with DISA moulding machines
1988
Foundry in England purchased (capacity: 5000t automotive castings p.a.)
1996
€10million invested to double production capacity for diesel and gas engine block production within a weight range of 0.5t to 6t
1997
Gebr. Gienanth-Eisenberg GmbH becomes a 100% subsidiary of Fink Deutschland Holding GmbH
1998
Start-up of a new foundry in England with a capacity of 30,000t automotive castings p.a. and close-down of the old English foundry
2002
Robot technology introduced in Hand Moulding
2005
Fronberg Guss GmbH purchased
2007
Foundry in England closed down
2008
Cognetas purchases Gebr. Gienanth-Eisenberg GmbH
2008
Merger of Gebr. Gienanth-Eisenberg GmbH and Gienanth GmbH
2010
275th anniversary
