Crunching the Numbers

What do pret­zels have to do with on-load tap-chang­ers? Some facts and fig­ures to mark our 150th anniver­sary hold the answer.

 


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

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