About Franke

In 1911, Hermann Franke founded his own sheet metal business in the small Swiss town of Rorschach. The expansion of the production facilities as well as the optimization of logistics and transport routes meant relocating to Aarburg, which is where Franke's headquarters are to this day.

After the death of Hermann Franke, his son Walter took over and initiated the company's global expansion. In 1975, there was a change of ownership: Friend Willi Pieper took over Franke and continued to expand it across European borders. In 1989, his son and the current owner Michael Pieper joined the company. In 2013 he handed the role of managing the Franke Group to Alexander Zschokke. A CEO change took place in 2018: Patrik Wohlhauser takes over the leadership of the Franke Group. Together with the current management, he leads an enterprise with 9,000 employees on 5 continents.