Widenta
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| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Founded 📆 | 1938[1][2] |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Hungary[3][2] |
Area served 🗺️ | Worldwide |
| Products 📟 | Abrasives[4] |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| Parent | MPF Industry Group |
| 🌐 Website | www |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Widenta is one of the largest abrasives company in Europe which designs, produces and distributes cut off wheels, grinding tools and sanding products across retailers, industrial traders and manufacturers. The company is integrated in MPF Industry Group, the Singapore based industrial distributer manufacturing and trading with several product categories including powertools accessories.[5][6][7][2]
History[edit]
The 1938 foundation of the factory related to Ferenc Chorin, who with his family generated 10% of the Hungarian GDP at that time. After the 1949 communist takeover of the country, Widenta became a Comecon strategic company and changed its name. The production continued. The factory was privatized by a German businessman after the collapse of the communist regime, later it became a part of MPF Industry Group which has fully modernised its industrial equipment. After major investments Widenta became one of the biggest grinding tool and cutting wheel factory in Europe. [1][8][9][3]
Products manufactured by Widenta[edit]
Widenta manufactures abrasives in the following categories[1]
- Vitrified and synthetic resin bonded abrasives
- Cutting and grindig wheels
- Flexible abrasive products
- Diamond abrasive blades and cutting wheels
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Widenta". MPF Industry Group.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "about". Widenta.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "3. The Felcsuti family's company empire of metal and plastic products", These are the Richest Hungarian Families, Daily News Hungary, 3 August 2015
- ↑ "Products". Widenta.
- ↑ "Csányiék családi vállalkozása a csúcsra ért" [The family business of Csanyi is at its peak]. 24.hu (in magyar). 2017-09-06. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
- ↑ Kft., New Wave Media Group. "A Csányi családé a legértékesebb cégbirodalom". http://www.origo.hu/ (in magyar). Retrieved 2018-08-14. External link in
|work=(help) - ↑ Bence, Stubnya (2015-08-05). "Nem az OTP-s Csányiék a leggazdagabbak" [Not the OTP Csányi is the richest] (in magyar). Retrieved 2018-08-14.
Today, Zsolt Felcsuti is head of a family-owned company, headquartered in Singapore, with whom he had previously co-operated with his father. The products of the company specializing in the manufacture of metal and plastic products have today conquered the world's DIY stores, and the corporate empire was further augmented by the head of the family by acquisitions. Today, Widenta, one of the biggest abrasive mills in the continent, FÉG and the Baja Furniture Factory, Widenta, also bought the Henkel barge site (which was owned by Kemijal for 15 years) and joined the building materials market. Forbes estimates a rich portfolio of 69.5 billion.
- ↑ On Hungary’s ailing home improvement market, Budapest Business Journal and Absolut Media, 6 December 2013
- ↑ "2003". MPF Holding - Firm history.
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