History

BLANCO, founded in1925 by Heinrich Blanc in Oberderdingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg Germany, is a company with a history spanning over 75 years and a tradition of manufacturing high quality products.

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BLANCO is one of the leading providers of innovative, design-oriented system solutions for work stations in domestic kitchens and food service equipment.

With the support of our business partners we, as providers of systems, develop and design attractive solutions for work places which make work in domestic kitchens, food service and in medical operational areas less onerous.
Founded
   1925 by Heinrich Blanc in Oberderdingen, Germany
The Thirties
   Production of copper galvanized parts for cookers and copper hot water bottles
The Forties
   Production of milk churns, butchers’ tools, boilers and components for catering appliances. In 1978, branch factory established in Sulzfeld. Staff totaled 300 at the end of the decade.
The Fifties
   cabinets Stainless steel production starts.

Production of utensils for the industrial catering industry, propane gas cylinders, freight-car coverings, cladding panels, containers for food distribution, stainless steel sinks. Sink production reaches 100 000 units in 1959.
The Sixties
   Expansion of the product range to include medical baths, cabinet systems, instrument trolleys, laboratory fittings, light and flag poles, kitchen and table ware.

First subsidiary founded in Holland. The number of employees reaches 1720.
The Seventies
   Concentration on three product groups:

Domestic Technology
Catering Equipment
Medical Engineering

Additional subsidiaries established in Austria and Switzerland.
The Eighties
   Innovation in all of the product groups

Domestic Technology:
Sinks made from high quality composite materials and sinks with integrated waste disposal systems

Catering Equipment:
Modern food distribution systems

Medical Engineering:
Operating Tables

Coloured sink production begins in 1986 with the launch of SILACRON® made from quartz.

In 1989, the first SILGRANIT® sink is produced.
The Nineties
   Founding of BLANCO MED GmbH with its own high tech factory for operating tables and accessories.

In 1994, the Sinsheim plant is ISO9002 certified.

In 1995, a factory is purchased in Toronto, Canada for the production of coloured sinks to better serve North American markets.

BLANCO receives various design innovation awards.

Approximately 20 million German marks invested to upgrade Sulzfeld plant to a state of the art production site.
2000
   Additional multi-million dollar investments made in Germany and Canada to accommodate North American demand for stainless steel and coloured sinks.