Leading the industry with integrity and innovation for more than 60 years.
Scroll through our historical timeline to see our history of innovation and excellence!
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1956
Foundation of the Company Feinwerktechnik SchleicherZiegler, StädleOHG
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1963
A simple pasta maker was the inspiration for the first paper shredder. 1st Patent granted.
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1964
Birth of the intimus brand. The introduction of the Simplex line, our top seller for over 40 years. Over 500,000 units sold.
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1970
Facility expands. Original building still in use as connector between manufacturing and R&D.
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1971
Acquisition of Taifun Wiesbaden. Products directed at end user channel while intimus brand continued reseller strategy.
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1975
Launch of cross cut technology with intimus 007 high security shredder. Particles are not bigger than 0.8 x 12 mm. intimus 007 cutting unit is still in production today.
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1978
Founding of US subsidiary to better serve commercial, government and military customers in the North America market.
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1981 – 1984
The company diversifies with the launch of custom built bicycles for the premium cycling market segment.
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1985
The company embarks on an extensive international advertising campaign to build the intimus brand globally.
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1986
Special media shredder DatenEX 2000 introduced for the destruction of floppy discs, tape media, etc.
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1988 – 1989
The company reorganizes corporate structure an is renamed Schleicher GmbH AG. A public limited company. Initial Public Offering made.
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1990
Launch of the Taros line of shredders as an upgrade to the aging Taifun line.
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2004
Acquisition of all shares by Martin-Yale. Company begins doing business as Martin Yale GmbH.
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2007
intimus PRO shredder line is developed and introduced. Products quickly exceed sales expectations.
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2014
Major European expansion with acquisition of 6 Pitney-Bowes sales operations – sales launch of folder-inserter line.
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2014
Martin Yale GmbH becomes intimus International Gmbh. Continues marketing popular line of shredders and business information solutions.
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2015
intimus brand celebrates 50 year anniversary. Technoexpress is acquired bringing physical security products into the intimus portfolio
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2016
Launch of FlashEx – the first machine designed for e-media destruction in an office environment
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2017
Gladiator Hard Drive shredders introduced to ensure total destruction of data on rotational hard disc drives.
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2020
85 RX Shredder provides a HIPAA compliant in-house destruction solution for pharmacies
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2021
intimus further addresses the needs of SSD destruction with the introduction of granulator line including SSD only and SSD-HDD destruction models.
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2023
intimus expands its multimedia destruction offerings with OmniShred, a small multimedia destroyer designed for office use.
