Folex Coating GmbH

Folex Coating GmbH

Unnauer Weg 6c 50767 Köln

AboutFolex Coating GmbH

WHO ARE WE

SPECIALISTS FOR FILM COATING

The Folex Group specialises in the finishing and coating of films has production companies based in Switzerland (Schwyz) and Germany (Cologne and Erlangen) that offer high-quality products and tailor-made services for a wide variety of markets.

With our worldwide network of distributors and dealers, we are never far away from our customers

LEAN, FLEXIBLE, FAST

We earn our living by creating solutions for our customers – and by doing so effectively, quickly and economically. Passionately committed to perfect products and satisfied customers, every one of our employees takes that to heart and we have developed our lean corporate structures accordingly.

Folex has just the right size to be able to act quickly and flexibly.

Where we come from

Innovating since 1860

Our company's origins date back to the year 1860, and it owes its commercial breakthrough to the innovative capacity of its founder, Dr. phil. Carl Schleussner. He improved a photographic dry plate to a point where it could be manufactured industrially to high quality standards. "Dr. Schleussner's Gelatine Emulsion Plates" became the company's first international market success.

Pioneer in X-ray plates and photography

At the end of the 19th century, in collaboration with Conrad Wilhelm Röntgen, the famous physicist, Dr. phil. Carl Schleussner developed the first special X-ray plates and established himself as a leading manufacturer of X-ray plates.

The historical production of photographic plates led to the emergence of the extremely innovative Adox-Fotowerke company: it produced the first roll films and cameras in Germany.

Folex as a coating specialist

Since being established in 1951, today's Folex Group has applied its outstanding competence in the field of coatings to ever-new materials and markets.

By acquiring the Technoplast coating company in Cologne in 1989, Folex extended its portfolio to include graphic arts products and materials for membrane switches. The technological changes of the 1990s prompted the development of media for digital printing and new materials for the printing sector. In 2013, the group expanded again by taking over the long-established Regulus company, which has a digital printing portfolio as well as other products.