Honsel history
Alfred Honsel Sr. started the company in 1930 as a factory for household goods made from aluminium. The pot handles were fixed with SOLID RIVETS. In the nineteen thirties, a press was purchased to enable the company to produce solid rivets to DIN 660 itself – the start of the production of high-quality fastening technology which still continues today.
The production of household goods was discontinued after the Second World War. The company concentrated entirely on the manufacture of rivets and quickly developed into one of the largest manufacturers of brake and clutch lining rivets in Europe.
In the sixties…
… the next generation of the family began to produce blind rivets and blind rivet tools. With the introduction of multi-stage presses for the manufacture of pipe rivets and blind rivet bodies, the company began to specialise in cold formed parts with drillhole.
In the seventies…
… despite regular extensions, the production area quickly became too small due to the steady growth, so that another production site was created for the pressing shop with a production hall area of 2,000 m².
In the eighties…
… the development of blind rivet nuts and screws began, as well as pneumatic-hydraulic riveting tools.
In the nineties…
… purchased 4, 5 and 6 stage presses and, in addition to blind rivet technology, increasingly concentrated on cold formed parts made to customers' drawings.
Today …
…following further extensions, modernisation and consolidation of the production areas, cold extruded parts and special-purpose rivets for particular applications are produced on more than 5,000 m². The development department and in-house toolmaking play an elementary role in satisfying the increasing demand for customised new parts and the requirements for short implementation times, even where more complex tasks are involved.
