History

1900	Gustav Wagner founds the firm in Kirchenhain as a whole-sale trade business in the drug- and paint-branch.
1907	Move to the home-town Biedenkopf. Own production begins. Wood-stains, French Polishes and varnish based polishes are the first produce.
1914	With the First World War and the conscription of the company's founder the business? development comes to a standstill.
1924	Not until the end of the inflation can the manufacture of paints and varnishes be taken up again to a larger extent. The name "Wagner" is known even beyond the border of the "Reich".
1925	The office- and whole-sale trade departments are moved into a newly acquired building across from the Biedenkopf station.
1930	Adolf Wagner �bernimm der �ltester Sohn des Firmengr�nders 27-j�hrig die Fabrikation in der Lindensta�e. Mehrere Jahrzehnte wird er das Unternehmen erfolgreich leiten und nachhaltig pr�gen.
1934-39	Heat-resistant varnishes and fireproof putty lead to an increase in turnover.
1939-45	The production can only be maintained poorly and finally comes to a standstill when the company's founder is conscripted.
1948	The whole range is taken up again. A new successful period is established by large investments into production plants and warehouses as well as expert staff. The production-range includes highly resistant varnish.
1960	A modern laboratory and new offices arise.
1966	Painter Gustav Adolph Wagner (oldest son of Adolph Wagner) joins the firm.
1967	A special department for synthetic based plasterwork-mass arises. The Adolph Wagner GmbH is the first producer of solvent based natural stone plaster (Wabierol synthetic washing plaster) and is the market-leader with this product in Germany.
1970	Wabiepon synthetic coating is highly acknowledged as a colourful, highly-resistant coating for machines and large-capacity vehicles, especially for tankers.
1970-80	The enlargement of the company in these years is owed to the production of dispersion- and mineral plaster.
1974/75	Business school graduate Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner and qualified engineer Hans-Georg Wagner begin their work in the firm.
1980	The expansion of the product-range in the area of composite heat insulation systems leads to an enormous increase of turnover. New silo works with plaster mixers are erected.
1990	The construction of a new production building is necessary to cover the growing demands of the customer. A tank installation for the manufacture of dispersion- and silicate plasters is put up.
1995	Foundation of a marketing-organisation for highly resistant varnishes.
1996	production-organisation WAGCHEM in Poland is founded after the opening of the market-place in East Europe.
2000	In the last decades the firm can credit itself with an above-average growth.