History

Already in 1885 the company Friedr. Blasberg was founded  in Solingen-Merscheid. Originally Blasberg sold various consumption goods to the local industry like polishing and grinding paste. But very soon Blasberg turned its business to electroplating materials.

Until World War II Blasberg concentrated on the electrolytic chrome plating process.  After the invention of mixed acid baths, especially for the use of the technical hard chroming, already in 1940 large automatic plants for mixed acid hard chrome plating had been delivered to Flugmotorenwerke BMW – aero engine production. 

The decades from 1950 were marked by the growth of the automotive industry, the functional electroplating and the pcb industry. The direct metalisation of pcb’s, the electrolytic deposition of Nickel silicon carbide dispersion coatings, and the embedment of inert particles into chemical Nickel coatings as well as bright tin alloys baths are among the extraordinairy developments of the company.

After bankruptcy of Friedr. Blasberg GmbH & Co. KG  in 1983 the Blasberg Oberflächentechnik and Blasberg Anlagentechnik with Blasberg Service had been founded. Later on these companies were incorporated in the LPW AG-Holding.

1997 Blasberg-GTL-Vertriebs- und Service GmbH Leipzig joint Blasberg Oberflächentechnik.

Beginning of 1998 it merged with Enthone-Imasa (Deutschland) GmbH, Erkrath to Blasberg-Enthone-OMI  with the headquarter in Solingen, whereas still in 1998 the Enthone-OMI (Deutschland) GmbH was founded.

Enthone-OMI (Deutschland) GmbH had been established in the years between 1990 and 1998 by merging and taking over of the traditional companies Blasberg,  Langbein- Pfanhauser-Werke and Riedel as well as Wunsch and Enthone-Imasa.
It is a daughter company of Enthone-OMI Inc., New Haven, which itself was a merger of Enthone Inc., Udylite Corporation, Sel-Rex and IMASA. Since the year 2000 Enthone- OMI Inc. belongs to the Polyclad Technologies group of the British Cookson trust.

In the field of the plating plant manufacturing companies BLASBERG, LPW, RIEDEL and HÖLLMÜLLER merge in 1997. 2005 LPW-BLASBERG Anlagentechnik GmbH disappears by the bankruptcy of the  VDN AG.