In 1970 it was decided to take over the buildings of the neighboring company and thus increase the production capacity.

Walter Graf died unexpectedly on 15 March 1968 during this construstion phase, leaving a painful gap. After his death his sons Helmut and Siegfried continued to run the company.

In 1967, another catalogue “FORTUNA® Glassware for Measurement Analysis” was published.

The two sons Helmut and Siegfried Graf, who were already active in the Thuringian company, joined the company as partners in 1950 and 1953 respectively.Until the beginning of the 1960s, the parts for injection syringes were individually machined, pistons and cylinders were fitted individually. Walter Graf u. Co. GmbH was one of the first companies […]

The production of glass syringes, cylinders and laboratory equipment offered the possibility of new training positons. The city of Wertheim and the state of Baden-Württemberg also provided active support for the reconstruction. In 1951, the US Army took over the Reinhardshof area. In the meantime, a new building had been constructed in Wertheim-Hofgarten. New production […]

Therefore, in the summer of 1950, the family decided to move to Wertheim, where several glass manufacturing companies had already found a home. In the basement of a building in the former air base at the Reinhardshof a new chapter in the company´s history began. Still in 1950, loyal employees from Thuringia followed the company […]

It was thanks to the organizational skills of Walter Graf that in the difficult years 1947-1948 a respectable new factory building could still be built. Unfortunately, due to the changed circumstances in the eastern part of Germany, there were few opportunities for free business development in the future.

In 1935 a new development was launched on the market, the “ORIGINAL FORTUNA Pipette D.R.G.M”. This is a combination of pipette and suction pump. It was no longer necessary to pipette by mouth with graduated pipettes, bulb pipettes and Westergren blood test pipettes, but instead could aspirate the liquid with the glass piston. This has […]

In 1932 and 1933, great difficulties had to be overcome, as customers from America no longer accepted deliveries. The following years were mastered with great effort. The picture shows the expanded production facility.

The trademark FORTUNA WGCO – under the sign of the goddess of fortune – was entered in the trademark register.