Maintaining traditions

1889

Foundation of the paint shop LAGEMAN UND WIEMER which later started to make its own paints

1904

Foundation of GEHOLIT-WERKE

1935

HEINRICH WIEMER ROSTSCHUTZFARBENFABRIK (manufacturing rust protection paints)

1975

Merger of forerunners to form GEHOLIT+WIEMER Lack- und Kunststoff-Chemie GmbH

1979

Foundation of GEHOLIT S.A.R.L. in France 

1987

Foundation of GEWEKA PULVERLACK GMBH (since 2010 KABE Pulverlack Deutschland GmbH) with KARL BUBENHOFER AG in Gossau, Switzerland, as partner 

1990

Construction of NOSSEN SALES CENTRE (west of Dresden) 

1995

Certification according to DIN EN ISO 9001 

1998

Investment in GALLO Pulverlack GmbH, Iserlohn 

2001

Foundation of GEHOLIT POLSKA Sp. z o.o. in Poland. 

2005

New storage tank for hydro products at the main factory in Graben-Neudorf

2006

Extension and modernisation of the production facilities at the Duisburg factory 

2008

Rebuilding of hydro production facilities at the main factory in Graben-Neudorf

2011

New IT data center

2012

Fully automatic mixing plant technology

2013

Neu laboratory building in the main factory Graben-Neudorf

2014

Modernization of the exhaust air treatment system

2017

Expansion of the production capacity for waternborne products
Acquisition of the location Nossen (west of Dresden)

2019

New central warehouse in Neudorf

2021

GEHOLIT+WIEMER strengthens the KABE Swiss Group