The Zwick Roell AG –More than a century
of experience in
materials testing
Since 1992, these companies haveformed the Zwick/Roell company
group. In July 2001, this company
group was converted into a stock
corporation: the Zwick Roell AG.
Part of this stock corporation are
the companies Zwick, Toni Technik,
Indentec Ltd., and since may 2002
Acmel Labo. These companies
supply an extensive program for
materials, component, and
functional tests - from the manually
operated
hardness testing up to a
complex
professional test system for the
process-accompanying application.Zwick has many years ofexperience, combined with a
multitude of supplied systems.
This experience is continuously
supplemented by the constant
communication with the users.
On this solid basis, the company
supplies a wide range of high-
performance products – from the
economical standard machine up
to special versions and designs for Mechanical-technological testing isthe oldest discipline of materials
testing. As early as in the 15
th and16
th century, Leonardo da Vinci andGalileo Galilei were already consi-
dering the flexural stressing and
the elastic behaviour of materials.
In the course of time further
knowledge was obtained. In the
middle of the 18
th century the firsttesting machines finally appeared
in France.Since the middle of the 19
th centurythe company Amsler (formerly in
Schaffhausen, Switzerland) has
been involved in materials testing
and the company Roell & Korthaus
since 1920. Since 1937 Zwick has
been building devices, machines
and systems for mechanical-
technological materials testing.
Long before that time, i.e. in 1876,
Prof. Seger had already founded a
chemical laboratory as a scientific-
technological consulting company
for the industry of nonmetallic
minerals. During the 20
th century,the present company Toni Technik
has developed from these funda-
mentals and is now considered a
leading expert for test systems for
building materials. Excellent
performances were also supplied by
the company MFL (Mohr &
Federhaff) – a company that was
founded in 1870. By the way, Carl
Benz was one of the employees.
special test jobs. Modernmechanics, high-performance
electronics and the application-
oriented software are the
prerequisite for the versatility and
the high “intelligence” of these
modern
testing machines manufacturer and
systems.However, the services of the ZwickRoell AG go far beyond the supply
of products. Already in 1994 the
company received the certification
according to DIN EN ISO 9001 and
thus guarantees a consistently high
product and service quality. With
accredited calibration laboratories,
the companies of the Zwick Roell
AG are in addition entitled to verify
and to calibrate test systems and to
document that with internationally
recognized certificates.
The headquarter of the Zwick Roell AG and
the Zwick GmbH & Co. KG at Ulm, Germany 3