When Horst M. Baermann left his father’s business to set up his own company in April 1966, he could not have known that he had laid the foundation for one of today’s leading European producers and suppliers of permanent-magnetic products, the “RHEINMAGNET Horst Baermann GmbH” (RHEINMAGNET). This marked the beginning of a remarkable business success story...
The founder of the company started the processing and treatment of permanent magnets for industrial customers and trade in his own cellar. The one-man-cellar-operation quickly grew to become an industrial company which was moved to today’s location in Neunkirchen-Seelscheid near Cologne/Bonn in the Rhein-Sieg district due to ongoing expansion.
Over the decades, the product lines were expanded under the umbrella of strong own brands. Numerous further patents and developments attesting to high innovativeness, strong service and advisory quality as well as strict compliance with the requirements of the DIN ISO 9001 quality management system which was already introduced in the 1990s are the basis for the company’s strong market position which has continuously been expanded to the present day.
In close coordination with the individual customers, RHEINMAGNET meets even the most sophisticated technical challenges and customer requirements to find the perfect permanent magnetic solution. This is supported by a proven and comprehensive range of standard products. Compliance with the highest quality standards, supported by a laboratory with state-of-the-art measurement and testing equipment, promote active product development e.g. for self-developed magnetizing fixtures.
The economic success and the expansion of the product portfolio also continued after 2007, when the company founder handed over the management to his eldest son Eckhard Baermann.
In addition to the extension of the classic industrial business, numerous new products were developed in the years that followed which were primarily aimed at tapping new customer groups. Within the past few years, retail at home and abroad has been added under the leadership of the newly established subsidiary “Magnet1956 GmbH”, which recently introduced a permanent-magnetic full range.
As a pioneer in its field with an ever-growing product portfolio, “RHEINMAGNET Horst Baermann GmbH” thus has become a reference for the development of permanent-magnetic solutions for a steadily increasing number of industrial and retail customers in Germany and abroad.
Intensive dialogue with long-standing customers and the growing number of new business contacts encourage the company to pursue its present course. Around 15,000 sqm of fully developed commercial space purchased in 2015 in direct vicinity to the company’s headquarters are to accommodate the expansion requirements of RHEINMAGNET in the future.
To put it in other words: 50 years and only just starting!