HASCO‘s HISTORY BEGINS IN 1924

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The HASCO story began in 1924, when the company’s founder, Hugo Hasenclever, made the first moulds for processing the still young material Bakelit in his cellar workshop in Lüdenscheid/Germany. Resource­fulness, consistency and his gut feeling led to the first change in the company’s business from wrought iron and brass artwork to toolmaking. The foundation stone had been laid for a typical entrepreneurial career in that part of Germany – from a little factory to a globally operating company.

The outstanding craftsmanship and technical skills that Hugo Hasenclever­ successfully deployed in metalworking also became appar­ent when he concentrated on his hobbies in his free time. He worked, for example, on making a roly-poly toy but this failed repeatedly because the toy always stayed lying down and would not stand up. It was his son Rolf who finally completed the task that had eluded his father when he went to his father’s workshop, into which he would secretly creep at night. Later, he proudly presented his father with a roly-poly toy that would stand up every time it was knocked over. Father Hugo’s gut feeling did not let him down once again when he recognised Rolf’s talent and instinct for the conceptional and structured implementation of technical challenges. Rolf Hasenclever followed his father’s wish to join the family company, where he later became the managing director. It is for this reason that the roly-poly toy is symbolic today for the inventive spirit that marked the company’s history.

The fundamental virtues of the company’s founder Hugo Hasenclever are, 100 years later, still being felt by the employees, and are still part of the corporate philosophy. Agility, innovation, simplicity and performance are the driving factors for the actions in the company. Inventiveness leads to innovative products and patents, which make HASCO even now the leading international provider of standard mould units and a full-service provider for tool and mouldmaking. The consistency of its actions is reflected in the quality of the HASCO products and helps to make the processes in tool and mouldmaking ever easier. 

In 1957, after the death of his father, Dr. h.c. Rolf Hasenclever­ took over the fortunes of the company. He, too, has been responsible for many milestones in the history of tool and mouldmaking.