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- established year : 1920
- Phone : 004940270750277
- Fax : 004940797557160
- website : https://www.rollei.de/
- E-mail : service@rollei.de
- Address : In de Tarpen 42,22848 Norderstedt,Deutschland
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About us :
Rollei is a German company that established its international reputation with the two-lens Rolleiflex, a trend-setting roll film camera. The company is based in the Schleswig-Holstein city of Norderstedt near Hamburg. In 1920 the workshop for precision mechanics and optics, Franke & Heidecke, was founded to manufacture a two-lens reflex camera. The company changed its name and legal ...
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About us :
Rollei is a German company that established its international reputation with the two-lens Rolleiflex, a trend-setting roll film camera. The company is based in the Schleswig-Holstein city of Norderstedt near Hamburg. In 1920 the workshop for precision mechanics and optics, Franke & Heidecke, was founded to manufacture a two-lens reflex camera. The company changed its name and legal form several times, for example in 1962 to Rollei-Werke Franke & Heidecke, 1979 to Rollei-Werke Franke & Heidecke GmbH & Co. KG, 1981 to Rollei Fototechnic GmbH & Co. KG and 2004 to Rollei GmbH. The company headquarters of Rollei GmbH was relocated to Berlin in 2006 and at the same time production was outsourced to Rollei Produktion GmbH, now Franke & Heidecke GmbH in Braunschweig. Another radical restructuring of the company took place in 2007/2008. The many name changes already indicate an eventful company history: After sales problems of the now outdated Rolleiflex, the production facilities and the range were expanded at the end of the 1960s, which the small company Rollei could not cope with . The start of our own production in Singapore in 1970 was a pioneering act in the photo industry, but it damaged the company's reputation as a German precision manufacturer. After several unsuccessful attempts at renovation, in 1982 the company concentrated on medium format cameras and a few other products. Measurement systems were added to the range from 1986, digital and modern compact cameras from 1991, and the company has been split into three companies since 2007. Franke & Heidecke GmbH (Braunschweig) was in charge of the professional products sector (medium format cameras, slide projectors). RCP-Technik GmbH & Co KG (Hamburg) took over the non-professional area (Rollei Consumer Products, i.e. compact digital cameras) in Europe and Rollei Metric GmbH took over the photogrammetry business. Franke & Heidecke GmbH has been insolvent since 2009. A part of the bankruptcy assets was bought by DHW Photo Technique GmbH, which continued to produce digital and analog medium format cameras, view cameras, slide projectors and small series until it also had to file for bankruptcy in 2014.
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