RHEOTEST Medingen - history and tradition (original) (raw)

Fritz Höppler

1930 - 1950

(Company Brothers Haake Medingen)

1932 - Fritz Höppler got a patent for the Falling Ball viscometer, namend after him - the worldwide first viscometer to determine the dynamic viscosity. More other world-firsts which were developed by Fritz Höppler are the Ball Pressure types Consistometer and Rheoviscometer.

Rheotest RV, year 1961

1950 - 1989

(VEB Mechanik formerly Brothers Haake Medingen

since 1960 VEB MLW Prüfgeräte-Werk Medingen - location Freital)

After the Second World War, the nationalised enterprise did its business under the name VEB MLW Prüfgeräte-Werk Medingen. Among others, rotational rheometers were developed. The successful series RHEOTEST® RV 2/2.1 became a further international trademark and was produced until 1995.

The development team in Medingen was forerunner for process viscometers, too. In addition to the production of viscometers for laboratories, also process viscometers were produced, more than 1000 of them were installed in industrial plants.

1989 - 1995

After German reunification the plant section Medingen was outsourced of the company MLW and handed over to former owners, the Haake family. Only four years later, the company HAAKE MEDINGEN GMBH went bankrupt. Even the product line viscometry which enjoyed international prestige could not save the company from bankruptcy. Additional excisting antiqued and unprofitable products, caused the debt.

since 1996

**RHEOTEST Messgeräte Medingen GmbH

since 2014

RHEOTEST Medingen GmbH

The companyRHEOTEST Medingen GmbH has now established
itself well as manufacturer of viscometers and rheometers and is renowned for
its competence in solving complex and demanding tasks in rheology and
rheometry. The professional expertise is reflected in its participation in the work of international research projects and membership of Standards Committe DIN (NAB) and Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft für Oberflächentechnologie e.V. (DFO).

Medingen - traditional location for more than 80 years