About us

Tradition in steel

As early as the 18th century, our ancestors were forging steel, making chisels, plane irons and nails. and nails, as the name Recknagel indicates. What began back then in Thuringia and the Bergisches Land region was to continue in the 20th  century with the founding of today's company Recknagel Präzisionsstahl GmbH continued.

Kurt Recknagel and Harry Möller founded the company Möller + Recknagel in Solingen back in 1968. one of the first manufacturers of precision flat steel in Germany, since 1973 in Hückeswagen.

Hardened guide rails were soon added to the production program. Extensive investments made Recknagel Präzisionsstahl GmbH one of the most important manufacturers of precision guides in Germany. Today, tool steels are machined and processed at two locations in independent companies. The endeavor to save our customers preliminary work has led to very successful product innovations such as product innovations such as VarioPlan^®, VarioRond^® and EcoPlan^®.

We have remained true to our origins. In Thuringia, where once, as in the Bergisches Land region, ore mining, smelting and the small iron industry, and later arms manufacturing and toolmaking brought people work and and modest prosperity, we founded another company in 1991: Gebrüder Recknagel Präzisionsstahl GmbH, Christes.

To actively support the development and restructuring of Central Germany's industry and provide people with jobs has always been a natural goal for our company. Thanks to the diligence and expertise of the people of Thuringia, we have achieved a great deal in over 25 years.

Even today, we are particularly committed to providing excellent education for our youth. The private vocational college in Hückeswagen, which we co-founded, has become well-established and uniquely combines dual vocational training with the opportunity to earn a high school diploma (Abitur) at the same time.

In 2016, a 2,000 m² hall expansion in Christes was put into operation, allowing us to offer an even larger stock of high-quality tool steel sheets in Central Germany for custom cuts and semi-finished products. With these investments, we now utilize approximately 10,000 m² of production space for high-performance CNC grinding, milling, and sawing machines, as well as an extensive material warehouse.

In 2019, we completed our new office building in Christes. It now houses new meeting rooms, the accounting department, human resources, purchasing, IT, and the Automation Department's technical center. The previous office building is now home to the sales department, management, operations, and our new cafeteria.