On 2 May 2022 the company is 75 years old.
A wide range of training opportunities are offered to customers in the new, attractive facilities of the WAGNER Academy.
J. Wagner GmbH builds and occupies another office building with 1,200 m² usable floor space, which is equipped with the latest building technology and enough room for 100 workspaces.
Launch of the COATIFY web-based information and management platform, which enables coating systems to be intelligently visualized.
A result of the WAGNER freiraum incubator, the IONIQ Skincare GmbH & Co. KG company is incorporated. The company develops and sells the world’s first intelligent spray device for sun protection and skincare products along with a smartphone app. In 2021 the IONIQ ONE comes onto the market.
The IPS coating system is introduced, the first fully automated powder-coating system.
High Efficiency Airless (HEA) nozzle technology is brought to market, offering the best quality job with minimal pressure and little overspray.
WINNOVATION 2025 strategy launches and WAGNER freiraum ("free space") incubator opens. The "freiraum" incubator offers a space for new business ideas as well as for new ways of thinking and working, and functions as a support platform for start-ups related to surface-coating technology.
Complete redesign of the Technology Centers for Industry and Contractors in Markdorf on 1,400 m².
WAGNER wins gold in the the German “die Oberfläche 2013” awards (translated "the surface 2013") for its breakthrough technology for powder coating MDF standard panels.
With Earlex Ltd. in Guildford, Great Britain, a company is acquired that has since 1987 been manufacturing similar DIY equipment to that made by WAGNER.
WAGNER takes over Reinhardt Technik GmbH & Co of Kierspe, Germany. The company specializes in the fields of bonding, sealing and casting as well as liquid silicone rubber (LSR).
Creation of Wagner Industrial Solutions Scandinavia AB, a joint venture between WAGNER and Sweden’s LKN Group.
The W 550 introduces the first modular HVLP paint spray gun. A technology that not only proves very popular in the DIY market sector but whose XVLP derivative for professionals also establishes a new category of tools and becomes a bestseller.
For the industrial and contractor sectors, the robust, material-saving and solvent-saving Cobra is introduced – to date the only pneumatic high-pressure diaphragm pump on the market.
The result of a comprehensive program of collaborative research and development, the Nespri-Tec system provides mist-free spraying of facades. The Nespri-Tec system was awarded Germany’s federal award for outstanding innovative achievement in the contractor sector. With the integrated TempSpray system, WAGNER invents temperature-regulated spraying.
With the WALTHER Spritz- und Lackiersysteme GmbH company in Wuppertal, Germany, WAGNER acquires a business that covers the air spray gun sector.
By acquiring Titan Tool Inc. in New Jersey, WAGNER becomes the second-largest supplier of paint spray devices for use by contractors in the USA.
By opening Wagner Shanghai in China, WAGNER invests in one of the biggest markets of the future.
By acquiring the competitor Colora, WAGNER significantly increases its market share in Italy and becomes a major player in the standard products industry sector.
WAGNER takes over Lematec Haus und Gartentechnik GmbH in Mannheim, which primarily focuses on the manufacturing of battery-operated tools for DIY enthusiasts, such as cordless screwdrivers. WAGNER goes on to successfully develop the range of solar-powered lights as its own product line.
WAGNER buys the Italian powder-coating specialist Itep.
WAGNER opens a subsidiary in the Czech Republic and, in the USA, enters the powder-coating sector with Wagner Systems Inc., Chicago.
The W 800 HVLP (High Volume Low Pressure) spray device is introduced to the DIY market, opening a new chapter in spraying with air.
WAGNER takes over the powder-coating specialist ESB of Meersburg and very successfully expands its industrial powder-coating technology.
28th of March 1987: Company founder Josef Wagner passes away.
Research & Development, Sales and Administration relocate to Markdorf and the old plant in Fischbach is sold.
In the same year, WAGNER opens a subsidiary in Vienna, in the form of J. Wagner Ges.m.b.H.
WAGNER opens a subsidiary in Sweden
WAGNER employs around 1,200 workers worldwide. Its products are exported to more than 100 countries all over the world.
In Markdorf, not far from Friedrichshafen, WAGNER moves into the first part of a completely newly constructed manufacturing and administration building.
WAGNER’s Spanish subsidiary opens in Barcelona.
WAGNER Benelux is created to service the markets in Belgium and the Netherlands.
WAGNER opens its first UK subsidiary in Banbury, England.
A manufacturing plant goes into operation in Minneapolis (USA). It employs 300 people and occupies 13,500 m².
Another subsidiary is set up, Wagner Spraytech Australia Pty. Ltd.
WAGNER establishes a subsidiary in Brondby (Denmark).
WAGNER supplies state-of-the-art electrostatic paint-spraying and powder-coating systems, and establishes a third pillar of its business with a new department for industrial coating systems.
Between 1975 and 1976 WAGNER Group turnover increases from 65 to 100 million German marks. Worldwide, 750 people work for WAGNER, of whom around 480 are in Germany.
This year, Josef Wagner sets up a charitable foundation in Switzerland too. The foundation is the owner of the Swiss company and is also a not-for-profit entity.
With the creation of Wagner Spraytech Japan in Osaka, WAGNER expands its internationalization into the Asian region.
Establishment of WAGNER’s French company in Paris-Palaiseau.
J. Wagner & Co. AG is established as a manufacturing site in Altstätten in Switzerland. Components are manufactured for the main plant in Friedrichshafen-Fischbach and for export goods.
Pneumatically operated high-pressure airless spray pumps are developed further and the first complete powder-circulation system for surface coating is realized.
Josef Wagner ensures that his company will survive beyond his lifetime. He changes the legal status of "J. Wagner GmbH" and creates the Josef Wagner Charitable Foundation. As well as preserving the company, the foundation pursues exclusively not-for-profit, charitable aims. It supports individuals and families in need, supports the upkeep of nursery schools, hostels, old people’s homes and care homes, supports gifted students and trainees, in particular in the fields of technology and science, and gives donations to not-for-profit entities that pursue similar goals.
In Minneapolis, USA, the location of a competitor, Josef Wagner establishes its first sales and service company overseas.
In Altstätten in Switzerland, J. Wagner AG (later: Wagner International AG) is founded, providing another manufacturing site.
Every month more than 20,000 electrically operated spray guns of various types are manufactured and exported to more than 80 countries.
Josef Wagner withdraws from helicopter development and sells Wagner Helicopter-Technik to the Helicopter-Technik-München company of Munich, Germany.
The main production plant in Friedrichshafen-Fischbach is remodelled and enlarged again. WAGNER employs around 400 workers.
In September 1969 the Wagner “Sky-Trac 1” helicopter becomes the first German helicopter to gain type certification from the German Federal Aviation Authority in Braunschweig.
In 1969 WAGNER launches its first electrostatic powder-coating system.
The first helicopter to be developed in Germany after the second world war completes its maiden flight as a prototype and is presented a year later at the International Aerospace Exhibition (ILA) in Hanover.
A branch factory is built in Markdorf-Leimbach, which primarily serves to supply metal parts to Fischbach.
Developed specially for contractors, WAGNER brings to the market airless spray guns with a carefully and newly developed diaphragm pump.
Designer Louis L. Lepoix develops the WAGNER logo in 1962. From 1964 onward, almost all spray guns and tools are designed with the striking yellow background against which the WAGNER lettering with the arrow on the "A" stands out in stark contrast.
In Lucerne, Switzerland, the first foreign company is founded, “Electric-Systems AG, Schweiz”.
Josef Wagner fulfills one of his dreams and establishes Wagner Helicopter-Technik (WHT) with the pilot Josef Maier.
A three-storey factory building is constructed in Fischbach, with a canteen and a residential block for workers.
A new, improved spray gun is developed and launched onto the market with the name “Mistral”. In the following years WAGNER offers a full family of products.
In 1954 an electrically operated grease gun is developed, which goes into production in 1956, and other products to emerge include an electric sander, a hairspray atomizer called “Figaro” and a motorized hammer designed for use by women.
WAGNER brings the “Whisker-Champion” to market: the first electrically operated airless spray gun for DIY enthusiasts. Serial production of this spray gun launches WAGNER into surface coating technology.
On the 2nd of May 1947 the „Josef Wagner Vertriebsgesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung“ (Josef Wagner Sales Company Ltd) is listed in the Register of Companies in Tettnang, Germany.
