Chronicle
| 1905: | Hermann and Maria Reckers establish the company, a business with agricultural machinery and equipment as well as a repair shop. The place of business: a small shed measuring 25 square meters on the parental farm. |
| 1908: | Herman Reckers is starting to manufacture himself and builds a forge which soon becomes a modern hammer mill with a metalworking shop. |
| 1922: | Despite economic depression, the founder invests in his own iron foundry – one of the first in Münsterland. By now the company has 37 employees. |
| 1933: | Purchase of the closed-down steel mill in the neighboring Rheine and relocation of the iron foundry to Rheine-Mesum – to this day, the location of the iron foundry. |
| 1940: | The company founder dies and his son Hermann Reckers takes over the running of the company. |
| 1965: | The foundry changes to a machine molding shop, whereby the output suddenly doubles. The machine factory begins to manufacture castings for the industry that are ready to fit. |
| 1971: | With lathes and processing centers, investments are made in new technology for the machine factory. The company has more than 100 employees, many since 20 years and longer. |
| 1977: | The foundry expands its product range with ductile iron and thus gains access to new markets. |
| 1980: | The turning shop and the milling shop in the machine factory are equipped with CNC machines. |
| 1982: | A large part of the foundry is destroyed by fire. But only a few weeks later, production resumes again. In the same year, the son of the company founder dies. His sons, Hermann and Manfred Reckers now run the company. |
| 1984: | The foundry is equipped with a fully automated molding plant – an investment which drastically increases output. |
| 1990: | New construction of the smelting operation in the foundry. |
| 1995: | The foundry starts the serial production of hydraulic castings. |
| 1998: | The machine factory expands its production area by 50 percent to approximately 5000 m² and invests in its machine park. |
| 2002: | Dorothee Reckers, the great-granddaughter of the company founder is included in the management of the company. |
| 2006: | New construction and expansion of the cleaning room in the foundry. |
| 2007: | Acquisition of a 14 ha property in the industrial zone Rheine Baarentelgen. |
| 2008: | Conversion of the melting system and commissioning of a long-term cold blast cupola furnace. |
| 2011: | New construction and expansion of the core shop as well as the core and core box storage in the foundry. |
| 2012: | Groundbreaking and new construction of the 14 ha large property in the Rheine industrial park. |
| 2013: | New construction of a storage and logistics center as well as expansion areas at the new location Rheine-Baarentelgen. |
| 2015: | Commissioning of the storage and logistics center as well as new construction of a painting and priming plant. |
| 2016: | Bernhard Rieken is included in the management of the company. |
| 2017: | Beginning of the new construction of a hall for machining as well as green light for the modernization of the machinery. |
