More than 200 years reliable, fair and innovative
Röders has been family-run for 6 generations and is diversified in 3 business fields:
- Highly precise milling and grinding machines / automation
- Blow moulds for PET bottles
- Röders pewter
Long-term respectful relationships with our employees, customers and suppliers are the foundation on which we have overcome many crises. Our products significantly contribute to reducing environmental impact through a long operating life and high efficiency as well as the possibility of recycling.
HINRICH RÖDERS
6. Juli 1931 † 10. April 2025
It is with great sadness that the family and employees bid farewell to Hinrich Röders, who passed away peacefully after a long, fulfilling and ultimately arduous life.
Hinrich Röders began his entrepreneurial activities in 1962 with a small contract turning shop with 5 employees in Hamburg. Three years later, when his father Albrecht Röders spun off the Soltauer pewter factory with around 10 employees from the company G.A. Röders, he joined it as an authorized signatory.
Both companies grew rapidly under Hinrich Röders’ management. By 1972, the Soltauer pewter factory had over 100 employees. Already then, rising costs prompted Hinrich Röders to set up a joint venture in Malaysia to produce the labour-intensive pewter articles there. He also temporarily set up a production facility in Ireland and founded subsidiaries in France and the USA for distribution.
With the contract turning shop in Hamburg, Hinrich Röders was able to win the Corpoplast company as a customer, so that this turning shop increasingly specialized in the production of blow moulds for PET bottles. This line of business is still very important for the Röders GmbH today, with customers in Europe, South and North America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
The development of high speed cutting machines by his son Jürgen Röders brought completely new activities to the company starting in 1991. After initial difficulties, these grew to become the company’s most important business segment by the end of the 1990s. Hinrich Röders made a significant contribution to the company’s great success during this time with a great deal of foresight in recruiting personnel, financing, the necessary extensions of the factory buildings, developing a worldwide sales and service network, etc.
In 2000, he largely handed over responsibility for the management of the company to his son, but remained active until 2012, primarily in the area of human resources and improving the education of apprentices. But even after that, he remained continually involved and available, with an alert mind on important issues for the company, and, even when faced with great adversity such as in 2020, continued to provide significant input and guidance.The family and the employees look back with great gratitude on their longstanding common journey and relationship with Hinrich Röders.