The history of our company |
 Our company is a definitive one in Gyõr's and Hungarian industrial history, which has seen serious transformation and crisises and has always been able to rebuild and succeed.
Our company has been kept alive by its individual product quality and the determination of its workers and stopped from collapsing during the World Wars, economic depression and the different political and social shocks.
Graboplast Plc's present history is about the company's rise, which has been going on for years now. The company's success and development are undoubtable.
The present principle of our company is growth and competitiveness and complying with EU requirements as well as challenges of the global market.
- 1905
- Miksa Grab and Sons founded a factory for the production of leather cloth, oil cloth, and linoleum flooring
- 1948-50
- Nationalisation of factories
- 1959
- First major investment.
Start of foamy PVC artificial leather production - 1961
- Start of floor covering production
- 1969-72
- New development aim: Non-woven textile production
The name "Graboplast" is taken up Major investment program: new artificial leather plant, finishing plant - 1980
- Installation of two toll and modern warehouses
- 1988
- Foundation of companies as Grabo-Group
- 1989
- Launching sole entitlement foreign trade
- 1990
- Graboplast Rt. (shareholding co.) was established with 30% western capital
- 1991
- Rearrangement of the whole of the Plc. by Austrian organisers and development of profit and budgetary centers.
Creation of Grabotext Plc. subsidiary company with 100% Plc. status. - 1994
- Listing on the Stock Exchange.
- 1995
- Capital Increase
- 1996
- Start of HOLDING activity
Kesztölc Wallpaper Factory - Acquisition Capital increase - 1997
- Acquisition of the Parquet Factory in Kecskemét Capital increase
- 1998
- Establishment of the Grabofloor Ltd.
Building of the plant producing 4m wide floorcovering in Tatabánya Financial losses, Russian market changes - 1999
- Stabilisation
Working out of new strategies. - 2000
- Green site investment of the parquet production line in Kecskemét.
Sale of the 74.9% ownership stake of Uniontext Plc to Albertfalvi Cérnázó Plc. Wallis Co. Ltd acquired a 25.1% ownership stake in Graboplast Co. Ltd. - 2001
- ABC Co. Ltd made a public takeover offer.
Delisting of Graboplast Co. Ltd from the Stock Exchange at the end of the year, its majority owner become (through ABC Investment Co. Ltd) the Wallis Ltd. - 2002
- The wallpaper producing Grabetta-Keszta LLc. and the non-woven textile producing Grabotext Llc. merged in Grabo LLc.
- 2004
- Investment to enlarge capacity of residential floorcovering production.
The non-woven textile production and Sotex Rt. are sold. - 2005
- Investment to enlarge capacity of parquet production.
Graboplast reaches it's hundredth year. - 2006
- Subsidiaries (Grabo Kft, Grabofloor Kft, Graboparkett Kft, Gif Kft) merge with Graboplast Ltd.
- 2007
- Wallpaper production is sold
- 2008
- New mixing plant investment 10M EUR
- 2011
- Preparatory work on waste recycling investment project has begun with operational experiments
- 2013
- The waste-recycling investment in Tatabánya worth over 800 million forints has been completed
- 2014-15
- Graboplast obtains a completely new unique image
Preparations for the design floor investment in Tatabánya, organization of construction and financing - 2016
- Launch of the Grabo Design flooring factory in Tatabánya, expansion of the Parquet factory in Kecskemét
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