Frings since 1878

Frings – the way to a competent partner

FRINGS was founded in 1878 by Heinrich Frings as a production facility for vinegar products in Aachen. However, the company quickly transformed into a technology company supplying the entire industry with innovative production plants and consumables.

In the course of the following decades, FRINGS developed to become an internationally operating machinery and plant production company for fermentation plants in various industries, whose products and services enjoy an excellent reputation worldwide.

Even today, more than 140 years after the company was founded, FRINGS is still an owner-managed, independent company.

Company foundation
1878
1908
Own nutrient development and production
FRINGS packed Generator
1925
1935
Automation of vinegar production 1st generation
Market launch of FRINGS Acetator
1953
1960
FRINGS yeast fermenters for the baker's yeast industry
Development of gassing reactors for the chemical industry
1964
1966
FRINGS Alkograph: First Online Alcohol Analyser
Market entry into environmental technology with the introduction of the FRINGS submerged aerators
1970
1978
FRINGS Cross-flow- Filtration Systems
FRINGS builds the first SBR wastewater treatment plant in the USA
1985
 
1987
FRINGS Alkosens - semiconductor-based online alcohol measurement
FRINGS develops automated SSHS and DSHS processes up to 16 % acetic acid concentration
1988
 
1989
Mechanical vertical defoamer 2nd generation
F-Series Automatic Cross-flow Industrial Filters
1993
1994
FRIBORATOR TRG - novel aeration stirrers up to 450 kW
The first complete FRINGS bakery yeast plant is built
1995
 
1996
Construction of a fermenter plant for bioplastics production (PHB) in Brazil
FRINGS Alkomat - NIR measuring instrument for the laboratory
1998
 
2000
FRINGS Acetator SC - High performance aerator
FRINGS develops and builds PROREACT B sterile bioreactors for "Fermented Beverages”
2001
2003
Market launch of the sterile bioreactors PROREACT P and G for biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry
New control generation ACETOCONTROL S7 on SIEMENS basis
2005
2012
The PROREACT ATEX plant technology is developed for the growing field of C1-biotechnology
FRINGS builds the world's largest vinegar factory in China
2014
 
2017
New plant / move to Rheinbach

A VIRTUAL TOUR THROUGH THE FRINGS MUSEUM

A long company history is rich in phases of the most diverse nature.
Long-lasting periods of economic prosperity, chaos of war, periods with the necessity to rebuild a company.

It is difficult to put this in short and concise words. Therefore you will find a small selection of pictures from old times.

And somehow even machines can tell stories!

WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR QUESTIONS AND TASKS. DO CONTACT US TODAY!

HEINRICH FRINGS GMBH & CO. KG

Boschstraße 32 53359 Rheinbach
Tel.: +49 (0)22 26 89 29 – 400 Fax: +49 (0)22 26 89 29 – 401