On 1 August 1946 – Swiss National Day – Ernst and Fanny Herrmann set up a precision engineering workshop in Walzenhausen high above Lake Constance in the Swiss canton of Appenzell, marking the birth of Herrmann AG. They soon began to experiment with plastics and bought their first injection moulding machine. Some seven decades and eight expansion phases later, Herrmann AG is a global second-generation family business employing around 70 people with its own R&D department and dedicated mould production facility.