1919 Group Introduction
Back in 1919, Georg Hecker founded Hecker Glastechnik GmbH & Co. KG. in Dortmund, Germany. The company mainly engaged in fireproof glass and glass tube business and served enterprises in the Ruhr industrial area. After a century of historical accumulation, it has now developed into a large-scale group company integrating glass processing, glass accessories and management consulting. The group has 4 subsidiaries : Hecker Glastechnik, Hecker Glass-Ceramics, Hecker Glass Accessories and Hecker Consulting Services .
2022 Today
Since the 1960s, Hecker Glastechnik GmbH & Co. KG. has continuously expanded its business, owned its own small tempering furnace, and processed and manufactured some small pieces of glass for lighting and oven application; in the 1970s, it started the business of black glass ceramic and transparent glass ceramic; in the mid-1980s, Hecker Glastechnik GmbH & Co. KG. and Nippon Electric Glass (NEG) reached a strategic partnership and became its largest distributor in Europe; in the 1990s, Heck Group established a partnership with PHILIPS, providing it with high-end lighting glass and won the "Supplier Quality Award".
Today, Hecker Glastechnik GmbH & Co. KG. has developed into a global multinational group company with an area of 140,000 square meters, nearly 350 employees, and annual sales of RMB 400 million. Its business scope has also expanded from the original lighting glass and high-temperature resistant glass to construction, home appliances, furniture, optics and other fields, making it a global market leader in flat glass.
•Mr. George Hecker founded the Hecker Company, which mainly deals with fireproof glass and glass tube business.
• Hecker established a new factory in Dortmund
•Hecker established a production plant in Ireland
•Established a partnership with NEG, the world's second largest manufacturer of special glass.
• Hecker Glastechnik expanded its area to 30,000 square meters.
• Hecker Glastechnik began to establish business relations with Chinese companies and met its Chinese partner Mr. Liu Yubin.
•Hecker Glastechnik and Qingdao Jishang jointly invested to establish Tai'an Bright Glass Technology Co., Ltd.
• Tai'an Bright Glass Co., Ltd. purchased land to build a factory, and the site was selected in Tai'an High-tech Zone. The company was changed to Tai'an Special Glass Co., Ltd.
• Tai'an Special Glass Co., Ltd. became the exclusive distributor of NEG N0 glass cermic products in northern China.
•North Rhine-Westphalia awarded the certificate of global market leader of flat lighting glass.
• Tai'an Special Glass Co., Ltd. introduced the most advanced printing automation equipment in China (the same model as Fuyao), and the factory was expanded to 10,000 square meters in the same year.
• Tai'an Specail Glass Co., Ltd. celebrated its 10th anniversary, "Ten years of achievements are as strong as iron".
• Hecker headquarters celebrated its 100th anniversary, and in the same year Special Glass reached an agreement with Wattglass of the United States to supply and produce AR coating products.
• A breakthrough year, with an output value of nearly 50 million, a glass ceramic output value of over 15 million, and mass production of home appliance glass.
Neimeng, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong (Weihai, Yantai, Weifang, Qingdao, Zibo), Jiangsu (Lianyungang, Xuzhou, Nanjing, Suqian), Henan, Zhejiang (Ningbo, Lishui), Guangdong (Guangzhou, Dongguan, Huizhou).
70% of the company products are exported to developed countries in Europe and the United States, covering more than 30 countries on 6 continents. The products are distributed in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Italy, India, Lithuania, and the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand and other places.