| 18.08.1869 |
The company is founded under the name of
Claes & Flentje OHG.
It produces sewing
machines, knitting machines and bicycles. |
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| 1900 |
The company has approximately 1,000
employees. |
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| 1933 |
The company changes its registered trade
name
to Claes & CO. KG.
It keeps turning
out sewing
and knitting machines right up to the end of the
Second World War. |
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| 1945 |
The company resumes the production of sewing
and knitting machines with a workforce of about
60 people. |
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| 1972 |
The company is nationalized under the name of VEB Spezialnähmaschinen Werk Mühlhausen with approx. 200 employees and becomes part of Kombinat Textima.
It manufactures heavy-duty leather sewing gear and linking machines. |
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| 01.01.1991 |
The company is nationalized under the name of VEB Spezialnähmaschinen Werk Mühlhausen with approx. 200 employees and becomes part of Kombinat Textima.
It manufactures heavy-duty leather sewing gear and linking machines. |
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| Dec. 1994 |
Claes GmbH ceases business. |
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| 20.12.1994 |
CL Maschinenbau GmbH is set up.
Parts of the production range and manufacturing equipment are taken over from Claes GmbH.
The company produces sewing machines for shoe-repairing applications, linking machines, as well as parts and components for individual customers based on job contracts. |
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| 1995 |
The company moves from Mühlhausen to a modern building at Weinbergen, OT Grabe, Im Birntal, in the vicinity of Mühlhausen. |
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| as of 2000 |
The company has 35 employees and eight apprentices.
Its main products are:
- Assemblies and components for warehousing equipment
- Assemblies for compressed-air engineering
- Sewing machines for shoe-repairing applications
- Linking machines
- Parts and components used in general engineering |
