PaX AG

In 1984, the Struth family took over Schweikhard GmbH in Ingelheim. The company had emerged from a wainwright's workshop and produced plastic windows that were installed under its own management in the Rhine-Main region. Dr Fritz Struth, an Oxford graduate, became managing director. The aim was to restructure the company from a regional direct marketer into a nationally active window manufacturer with its own dealer network. The brand name PaX stood for this new path from the very beginning.

In 1989, PaX was one of the first companies to produce windows "on the assembly line" "At that time, we introduced series production on a long production line, supported by computer-controlled machines. After all, there was no reason why this shouldn't work," Dr. Struth recalled of the first experiments with the new production methods. In 1989, PaX set up industrial window production in a new plant in Hermeskeil near Trier. The project met with scepticism from experienced experts. Windows were unique and production on a conveyor belt was therefore impossible. But because PaX relied on computers for production from the very beginning, individual "made-to-measure" production on the assembly line was feasible - and brought about a process of change that set numerous impulses in the industry.