| 1921 |
Founding of Metallwerk Plansee GmbH by Professor Paul Schwarzkopf to produce refractory metals |
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| 1930 |
Broadening of product portfolio to include composite materials (ELMET), hard metals (TITANIT) and sintered iron |
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| 1936-1952 |
Metallwerk Plansee owned by Deutsche Edelstahlwerke AG |
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| 1952 |
Paul Schwarzkopf regains sole ownership of Metallwerk Plansee
First Plansee seminar is held in Reutte, Austria |
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| 1961 |
Founding of Sinterstahl GmbH, Füssen, Germany, in partnership with Deutsche Edelstahlwerke |
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| 1978 |
Beginning of international expansion
At the beginning of the eighties the PLANSEE Group consists of 14 companies worldwide |
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| 1980 |
The Plansee Group now includes 14 companies worldwide |
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| 1985 |
Plansee Tizit GmbH is demerged and becomes an independent company, taking on the Plansee Group’s hard metal and tooling activities |
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| 1993 |
The Plansee Group now comprises 24 companies |
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| 2002 |
The Plansee Group contributes its Tizit activities to a joint venture with the Luxembourg-based Cerametal Group. The Ceratizit division is formed. |
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| 2005 |
The Plansee Group contributes its PM product activities to a joint venture with Japan’s Mitsubishi Materials Group. The PMG division is formed. |
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| 2006 |
The Plansee Group is made up of three divisions – Plansee High Performance Materials, Ceratizit Hard Materials & Tools and PMG PM products, with a total of 62 companies operating in 22 countries. |
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| 2008 |
The Plansee Group acquires the business unit GTP from Osram. The division Global Tungsten & Powders is formed. |
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