Crunching the Numbers

History

• 1868
  Pro­duc­tion of wood pro­cess­ing machin­ery
• 1901
  Andreas Scheubeck takes over the fac­to­ry / com­pa­ny name changed to Maschi­nen­fab­rik Rein­hausen
• 1914–1918
  First World War: busi­ness devel­op­ment halt­ed
• 1926
  Patent for Dr. Bern­hard Jansen high-speed resis­tor-type tap-chang­er
• 1929
  Col­lab­o­ra­tion Scheubeck/Jansen
• 1933
  OILTAP® C: First Jansen tap chang­er
• 1942
  Scheubeck broth­ers take over MR
• 1952
  First export orders shipped to France
• 1953
  Com­pa­ny moves to Falken­ste­in­straße
• 1957
  Exports account for 50 % of busi­ness
• 1958
  Jansen dies, MR takes over devel­op­ment activ­i­ties
• 1961
  In-house patent attor­ney hired
• 1973
  OILTAP® M: Impor­tant advance in mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing
• 1980
  First for­eign sub­sidiary: MR do Brasil
• 1989
  MR takes over tap-chang­er pro­duc­tion from West­ing­house & Siemens
• 2000
  VACUTAP® VV: First high-speed resis­tor-type tap-chang­er with vac­u­um tech­nol­o­gy
• 2001
  100,000th tap chang­er “Made by Rein­hausen”
• 2013
  GRIDCON® iTAP® for local grid trans­form­ers
• 2016
  ECOTAP® VPD® for dis­tri­b­u­tion trans­form­ers
• 2018
  150 years of Maschi­nen­fab­rik Rein­hausen