The milestones in our 50-year history

1971 – Foundation of Korrodin-Douchman KG

The German Post Office increased the postage for standard letters from 50 pfennigs to 60 pfennigs. For the first time in the Federal Republic of Germany, children, women and men were legally entitled to free medical examinations for the early detection of diseases.

July 1, 1971 was a Thursday. On this day, Korrodin started its operations. The name says it all: Corrosion-resistant DIN parts

The screw in the lemon means that stainless steel is rust and acid-resistant. Korrodin started by offering standard parts, manufactured by the well-known manufacturer of quality parts, Richard Bergner in Schwabach, Germany

1974 – Construction a new building in the Nuremberg harbor area

1985 – Entry of the Gerlach family into the business


Mr. Gerlach, who learned about the industry while working at a German screw manufacturing company and at a well-known screw wholesaler, took over the company’s management.

Customers of Korrodin prefer quality and demand more than just standard screws.

As a result, we began supplying increasingly more special parts and drawing parts in various high-quality materials.

1989 – 1993

1989 – Takeover of Krafft-Schrauben KG in Frankfurt

1990 – Foundation of Korrodin-Krafft-Schrauben KG in Gera

1993 – Development of the first C-parts management concept with BOSCH

1998 – Korrodin moved to Schwabach

1998 – Korrodin moved to Schwabach

Development of barcode-controlled semi-automatic warehouse logistics

Change in ownership structure to 25% Ribe – 75% Gerlach

1999 – Foundation of the C-parts management sales department

2006 – The year of certificates

Initial VDA 6.2 certification

Initial DIN EN ISO 14001 certification

DIN EN ISO 9001 certification

2011 – Korrodin moved back to Nuremberg harbor…

Korrodin optimized its warehouse processes during this year. People no longer went to the goods, but the goods came to the people in the computer-controlled workplace.

This increased accuracy of access and further minimized quantity deviations through intelligent weighing technology.

2014 – Initial aviation certification

Initial DIN EN ISO 9120 certification

2016 – Expansion of the AKKL automatic storage system

2021 – Korrodin celebrated its 50th year

Unfortunately, because of the Coronavirus, we weren’t able to have a big party

2022 – Gerlach Holding now holds 100% of Korrodin

Korrodin has never been a classic wholesaler with a catalog and standard range of screws. From the very beginning, we have always met our customers’ increasing demands for reliability, product and process quality, even outside the field of fastening technology. We are almost completely self-sufficient because of our specialization in customized drawing parts, the diversity of products in our purchasing service, our highly developed set assembly process and our complete range of fastening technology for aviation standard parts.

Our goal is to constantly develop ourselves, so we can guarantee your satisfaction! Our trained staff of around 50 employees support us in this every day!

GS Befestigungstechnik GmbH

Jens Stederoth:

Dear Team Korrodin, Dear Mr. Gerlach,
The management and staff of GS Fasteningstechnik GmbH would like to warmly congratulate you on your 50th company anniversary.
We have been working together successfully for more than 25 years. We would like to expressly emphasize the exceptionally good and fair cooperation with Korrodin.
We wish Korrodin a continued successful future for the years to come!
We are definitely looking forward to continued successful cooperation.
With kind regards from Sauerland!

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