Metabo

<p>Metabo GmbH is a German manufacturer of power tools&comma; such as machine polishers that are used in the detailing community&period; The company was founded in the 1920&&num;8217&semi;s and has a very wide range of products&comma; not all of these are used while detailing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Metabo history<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Metabo started out as the <strong>Meta<&sol;strong>ll<strong>bo<&sol;strong>hrdreher&comma; which is German for &&num;8220&semi;metal hand drill&&num;8221&semi;&period; The company was founded in 1924 by Albrecht Schnizler in Nürtingen&period; After his very first hand drill sold 50&period;000 units&comma; the company Schnizler GmbH was founded by both Albrecht and Julius Closs&period; Julius was the owner of a local brewery called Sonnenbrauerei which translates into &&num;8220&semi;Sun brewery&&num;8221&semi;&period; When the company grew&comma; they moved into the rooms of the brewery&comma; with Walter Rauch becoming an associatie in 1927&comma; who managed the distrubution of the products both nationally and internationally&period; In 1932 they renamed the company into Metabowerke Closs&comma; Rauch &&num;038&semi; Schnizler KG&period; During the second world war&comma; the company was spared serious damage&comma; but a fire in 1945 destroyed almost 75&percnt; of the manufacturing area&period; Rebuilding everything took 3 years and finished in 1948 with the construction of a new construction plant beginnen in 1953&period; In 2016&comma; the company was sold to Hitachi Koki&comma; which is part of the Hitachi Group&period; The Hitachi Group in turn sold the entire Hitachi Koki selection to HK Holding Co&period; Ltd which is owned by KKR&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Metabo products<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>The most prominent products made by Metabo are the various power tools&period; From electric saws&comma; drills&comma; angle grinders&comma; impact drills and many more&period; The current range holds hundreds of different tools&comma; witch each a wide variety of optional extra&&num;8217&semi;s and accessories&period; Within the world of detailing&comma; the most coming products used are the Metabo polishers&comma; such as the PE 15-20 RT&comma; or the excentric sander &lpar;for wetsanding&rpar; such as the SXE 3150&period; The company also makes several vacuum cleaners&comma; including wet&sol;dry cleaners for cleaning interiors&period; Most of these items are also available in cordless versions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Metabo company information<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Metabo GmbH has its own <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;metabo&period;com&sol;" title&equals;"Company website for Metabo">company website<&sol;a> and is sparingly active on social media&period; Seeing as the company offers many products that are not relevant for the world of detailing&comma; much of their content is not of interest for most detailers and weekend warriors&period; The company is not often seen on detailing related events or meetings&comma; because most resellers and webshop owners rather stock brands that have more focus on detailing and valeting&period; The company is also not often mentioned on detailing related fora or message boards for the same reason that is mentioned above&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;