Company profile
FOR OVER 50 YEARS, AUGUST PENKERT GMBH HAS BEEN ONE OF GERMANY'S LEADING MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-QUALITY OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY PRODUCTS.
In addition to the production of body protection articles with a focus on EN standard-compliant protective gloves, the company offers protective sheathing for moving machine parts with a focus on bellows and loading hoses.
As a reliable partner for your safety, we use state-of-the-art technology to develop practical solutions for a wide range of applications. Our expertise, flexibility and trustworthiness are the factors that create a basis for a good partnership.
The most important stations on our way:
- 1967 Foundation of the company by Mr August Penkert
- 1983 Move to newly built premises Xantener Str. 12
- 1988 Dipl.-Kfm. Bernhard Penkert joins the company
- 1989 Founding member of the Bundesverband Handschutz e.V. (Federal Association for Hand Protection)
- 2007 We celebrate 40 years in business
- 2009 Implementation of a new digital corporate identity
- 2010 Digitisation of the complete product and service range
- 2012 We celebrate 45 years in business
- 2014 We mourn the late company founder August Penkert
- 2015 Independent corporate identity of the machine protection business unit
- 2017 We celebrate our 50th company anniversary