HISTORY

1955

Emmy and Harald Nielsen set up DIA-Nielsen on Kreuzstraße in Düren, Germany with the idea of offering all accessories that users of recording instruments need from one place. The company´s name DIA-Nielsen is based upon the term diagram and it will become the by-word of this burgeoning market in the future.

1960

Our corporate strategy connected so well that there were no limits to growth and expansion. That´s why our company soon moved to its own business spaces into Industriestraße in the Lendersdorf borough of Düren.

1967

Thanks to skyrocketing sales in marking system instruments, our company grew dynamically and we had to add onto our original building.

1968

DIA-Nielsen creates fibre-tip pens for recording instruments, making it a pioneer in state-of-the-art diagram recording technology.

1974

Emmy Nielsen, co-founder of our company, died in August of 1974.

1975

DIA-Nielsen ITALIA S.r.l. is set up in Milan.

1975

Harald Nielsen, co-founder of our company, died in December of 1975 at 66.

1979

At the onset of 1979, our company expanded its activities to the United States opening a production company in Cinnaminson, New Jersey.

1973, 1975, 1978, 1980

Our company´s excellent development allowed us to expand facility II even more.

1990

DIA-Nielsen adds a hall measuring 2,000 square meters to its production plant.

1996

The Einbeck-based Schleicher & Schuell takes over DIA-Nielsen, thus intensifying our already existing business relations with batra, manufacturers of papers for writing implements with headquarters in Traben-Trarbach, Germany.

1999

DIA-Nielsen not only expands production for measuring technology, but also adds the production of disposable filters for life sciences to its programme.

2000

Our development work in printing technology allows us to add ink jet products starting in the second quarter.

2002

DIA-Nielsen and batra merge into DIA-Nielsen MicroTech GmbH.

2004

Since 1 December DIA-Nielsen MicroTech is owned by ConCert.