Tradition and Vision - our company history

1848, the year Dinkhauser Kartonagen was founded as a bookbindery in Innsbruck, was a turbulent and unsettled year:

Revolutions in Paris, Berlin and Rome lead to the first free elections, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto" in London, in California, discovery of gold triggers the first gold-rush, Mexico looses a third of its territory (California, New Mexico and Arizona) to the United Stated of America and in Austria, Franz Josef I is proclaimed emperor and will reign the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy for 68 years.

Besides its history, each 150-year old company, like ours, can tell a host of tales:

Did you know...

  • that in 1894 Dinkhauser Kartonagen, at that time the Royal Austrian-Hungarian bookbindery, was lead by a woman, 25 years before the introduction of universal suffrage?
  • that Ferdinand Exl, founder of the "Innsbrucker Kammerspiele" and later director of the "Raimundtheater" in Vienna, was a bookbinder's apprentice at our company - unfortunately or fortunately unsuccessful.
  • that our company building is one of the last structures of the well-known Austrian architect Josef Lackner.

Such stories are more than just anecdotes; they influence a company and its culture. Many things have to fall into place for a company to be lead successfully by the same family for such a long period of time. Diligence, steadfastness, vision and the celebration of values in all matters of business as well as the bold and inspiring step into the future are the necessary background for this accomplishment.


150 Years Dinkhauser Kartonagen:


2006 Our new Polyjoiner machine offers new possibilities to our customers. The bonding of different materials leads to new and so far impossible solutions, like Boxanova®. Using combinations of different materials in one product, logistical requirements such as flat-pack delivery, stability, simple filling and handling, as well as the requirements at the POS can be fulfilled by this new product. Ongoing education and training, also honoured by the Government, and ongoing additional investments like company wide humidifiers are important steps in our CIP.
The integration of Aristos, as our printing company (www.aristos.at) builds an important component of our packaging competence center.
2005 Sheets of up to 1600x1100mm can be laminated in the newly acquired laminating machine. This heralds new possibilities for designing displays.
The most modern punch press in Austria delivers highest colour register accuracy and additional gains in efficiency.
In order to meet future growth a new high rack warehouse, additional shipping stations and production areas are built in the neighbouring building which was bought in 2000.
A Dinkhauser panel for lectures, workshops and product presentations opens up new possibilities for customer care.
Awards like the Tyrolit Excellence Award, which we win for the third time in a row, are an incentive to continue to create value-added packaging and product presentations in partnership with our customers.
2004 Dinkhauser Kartonagen receives the award "Excellent Tyrolean vocational training company".
Dinkhauser Kartonagen receives the "Maecenas Award" for its intermedia company profile "Dinkhauser gehalten" by Jeannot Schwarz.
An increasing number of surface manufacturers put their trust into ShowPac presentation materials. New CAD-driven bonding robots improve accuracy and speed of production.
2003 Success of the ColomPac® range requires the purchase of an additional bonding machine.
A competitor in the case-production sector is absorbed.
Nobleprint® makes revolutionary print effects possible.
Dinkhauser Kartonagen receives the "Tiroler Intergrationspreis" - award for exemplary integration of disabled employees.
Dinkhauser Kartonagen receives numerous supplier awards and competition - among others the "Tyrolit Excellence Award " and "Vorbildliche Verpackung" (exemplary packaging).
2002 New bonding machines go online and generate additional capacities.
2001 Dinkhauser Kartonagen takes a share in pack it! Verpackungs GesmbH and expands its competence in the area of large-format lamination.
2000 The new fully-automated high rack warehouse for 4.000 pallets goes online.
Purchase of a neighbouring building complex for future expansions.
Purchases of additional large-format flexographic printing and punch presses.
Investments into the education of our employees pay off - Dinkhauser Kartonagen apprentices win the Austrian apprentice competition for bookbinders.
1999 Expansion of our production areas and building of a fully-automated high rack warehouse for 4.000 pallets begins.
1997 Founding of Dinkhauser Germany in Babing near Regensburg.
ColomPac® range is successfully launched in the German market. The delivery packages with self sealing closures and tearing aid - from the start they convince through a high degree of flexibility and thought out functionality.
1996 Expansion of our office building based on plans by architect Lukas Schumacher.
1995 Bookbindery Kahrer absorbed. Our capacities for refinement through craftsmanship are aligned with heightened quality standards. The company is converted into a Ltd. company and Paul Schäfer takes over management.
1992 The expansion of our warehouse is completed.
1991 Our ShowPac® range is launched. The decor samples for the European derived timber industry are so well received that special machinery for bonding of original samples have to be purchased immediately.
1989 Dinkhauser Kartonagen receives an award for exemplary packaging.
1981 Production areas become too small - the decision is made to start a new building at the current location.
1969 The reorientation towards a packaging company is completed - Dinkhauser Kartonagen receives the Austrian State Prize for exemplary packaging in Vienna as well as the Eurostar in London.
1964 The production areas once again reach their limits - considerable annexes are built, capacities are enlarged with the purchases of modern punch presses, stapling and bonding machines.
1961 The company shifts its focus - the bookbindery of 1910 will be transformed into a modern packaging company.
1951 Getrude Schäfer und Hermine Flora take over management of the company after the death of Josef Dinkhauser. Due to space issues the company moves from Innsbruck to Hall.
1919 Josef Dinkhauser takes over management of the company and guides the company successfully through the interwar years and the Second World War.
1910 Under the guidance of Fritz Dinkhauser the company moves into the Maria Theresienstrasse.
1894 After the death of her husband, Anna Dinkhauser takes over management of the company.
1848 Fritz Dinkhauser takes over management of the company from his father Josef the same year the bookbindery is founded in Innsbruck.