History
For more than 80 years, we have been producing at the same location: in Plettenberg/Germany – a fact that fills us with pride. As a classical family-owned business, managed by the owner family, we commit ourselves to a company’s policy based on trust and reliability.
Production in Germany is rfks’ key factor for high product quality. Our products are 100% Made in Plettenberg – guaranteed.
1938
Toolmaker Friedrich Karl Schulte erects a factory building on Herscheider Straße in Plettenberg and starts a production of washers and stamped parts.
1941
Businessman Rudolf Schulte rents the building and factory equipment of August Schürmann company, specialised in production of stamped parts and splints, the manager of which he was till then.
1954 - 1976
1954: Both brothers merge their companies into a general partnership called Rudolf & Friedrich Karl Schulte oHG, Press- und Stanzwerk.
1976: The general partnership is changed into a limited partnership called Rudolf & Friedrich Karl Schulte KG, fully liable partner Dipl. Kfm. F. Wolfgang Schulte.
1985 - 2004
1985: Both companies are united and centralized in Herscheider Straße.
1991: Further extensions for a new tool shop and for raw material.
2004: Purchase of approximately 12,000 m² large site which was once part of the German railway company.
2005 - 2010
2005: The completion and activation of 3,000 pallet spaces in a rack-supported storage system and 2,800 small storage spaces and state-of-the-art packaging machines.
2006 – 2010: Extension of commercial and technical offices, enlargement of our tool shop, construction of an additional storage for raw material as well as purchase of several state-of-the-art stamping machines.
2013 - 2015
2013: In December, Carl Philip Schulte M.A., son of F. Wolfgang Schulte, thus the third generation, joins the family business.
2015: An additional 2,000 m2 production hall is built for the purchase of a new 800 ton stamping machine.
heute
F. Wolfgang Schulte, owner of R+FK Schulte and his son Carl Philip Schulte M.A., deputy chief executive officer.