The History of the Company

The history of mechanical engineering in Chodov covers a period of more than one hundred years. The foundations of the present Chodos Works were laid in the year 1883 by a blacksmith Mr Carl Gasch. He started with first simple machines focussed on the needs of the region, where raw materials were exploited and china goods produced.

As early as 1905, the firm had ten workshops, in which about one hundred members of staff proved their professional abilities and skillness. The World War I brought on the production of artillery ammunition. 1924, the firm became a joint-stock company. After the Big Depression, there came a short period of prosperity interrupted by the World War II, which left only obsolete machinery and lack on personnel. In the year 1946, the three metal-working firms existing in Chodov (Gash, Panenka-Öhm und Gerstner), merged into one company. Only two years later, in 1948, the mentioned company was nationalised.

In 1950, the name of BUZULUK bore, after several changements in the structure, the company was included into State-owned Entreprise Buzuluk Komarov. In the year 1957, the production was focussed on the branches of machinery for rubber manufacturing and plastics industry equipment. The plant has been gradually specialized for these branches of industry and large supplies of machines and equipments have been realized for the processing industry of former community of East Europe countries.

In the year 1963, a new large plant was put into operation. In the year 1968, the company was included into VHJ CHEPOS, renamed and known further as "CHODOS". In 1989, the company became fully independent as a State-owned Company.

In the year 1995, the company was succesfully privatised by the succession organisation CHODOS CHODOV s.r.o.