1852 

PETKUS founder Christian Friedrich Röber started with manufacturing agricultural machinery, including so-called "corn-screen".

1874 

New factory was taken into operation with using the river "Erbstrom" as power source.

1883 

The sons Carl and Rudolf Röber took over their father’s business and focused on seed cleaning technologies. They registered countless patents worldwide, some of which still represent key technologies at PETKUS to this day. A dynamic growth rate started.

1887 

Increasing sales to Russia started; thousands of machines were delivered to Russia and the neighbouring countries in the following decades.

1880-1910

Numerous honorary degrees and gold medals were awarded for PETKUS technology in Germany, Russia, Great Britain, France, Austria and Hungary.
His Majesty Wilhelm II, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst Otto von Bismarck and a Ferdinand von Lochow, owner of the Petkus manor in Brandenburg, are on the reference list. The Röber brothers patented the name in wise foresight and since 1910, the name PETKUS occurred in the brochure and leaflets of the company, based on the legendary Petkus cleaner.

1902 

New, bigger and most modern factory building was built. Due to taking EH&S aspects into account, the company was awarded with an honorary certificate from the board of trade of the Grand Duchy of Saxony.

1907 

The annual revenue was more than 5.000 machines, exported to over 30 different countries.

1922 

PETKUS expanded and had app. 280 employees.

1948 

Transformed into the nationally owned enterprise “LBH Landmaschinenfabrik Wutha” in East Germany.

1952 

Spin-off of company RÖBER GmbH in West Germany led by Albert Scholze and Paul Röber.

1955 

East Germany
Renaming and restructuring into VEB PETKUS Landmaschinenwerk Wutha/Thüringen.

1969 

West Germany
Strong internationalization of RÖBER GmbH to Asia and Africa led by Dieter Scholze.

1994 

Mark Scholze privatises PETKUS with investors from the business to continue the tradition of the family and the company and reunites Röber and PETKUS at the Wutha-Farnroda site.

2011 

To honour the PETKUS founder, the ROEBER Institute as Innovation Center (R&D) was established.

Today

Over 420 employees with sales, service and engineering hubs in 23 countries. The company has installed over 200.000 cleaning machines and 2.000 complete seed-lines in the past 40 years. Double-digit average growth rate of the PETKUS-Group in the last 10 years demonstrates the trust that customers place in competence and proficiency.