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