As a driving force for innovation, we form an equal partnership with our clients to develop and produce premium liquid silicone, thermoplastic and multi-component assemblies. We relish challenges, we are focused on our goals and we are committed to overcoming every technical challenge that comes our way. It is our sense of ambition and passion that sets us on new technical paths to actively develop and fine-tune our clients' products. We play an integral role in product safety and comfort for the end user. It is a source of great pride to us that our components add value to the end user experience.
We are on the same wavelength as our clients and take a proactive role in our partnerships. Our team takes customer requirements or even fledgling ideas and dreams, and makes them a series production reality. All the while, we have an eye firmly focused on the functional reliability of the whole product, enabling us to guarantee maximum product quality and cost efficiency.
Our client contract covers everything from initial development and tool construction to production-ready prototypes and on to series production – if required by the client, this can even include custom packaging and labelling of individual products, ready for sale, enabling the client to deliver straight away. Frey & Winkler offers a truly full service that not only helps simplify processes but also saves our clients time and money.
Frey & Winkler operate on a "one face to the customer" principle, meaning clients receive professional, proactive and reliable advice from highly knowledgeable employees with extensive technical expertise. This dependable, proactive, tailored and genuine advice means that our customers can expect the highest degree of flexibility, commitment and efficiency throughout the entire process, from initial development right through to series production.
Frey & Winkler's production process is characterised by a level of automation that is tailored to the client's needs, combined with an extensive portfolio of wide-ranging production machines. This allows Frey & Winkler to maintain a high degree of flexibility, ready to handle wide-ranging customer requirements. As such, the company is able to produce tailored results for its clients, whether they need small batches or large purchase volumes.
Our current focus lies in expanding the production of injection-moulded parts in liquid silicone (LSR) and two-component silicone, using silicone rubber and assembly-ready silicone moulds. Though many values may have changed over the course of the company's history, one thing Frey & Winkler have always stood for is the quality of the products at the heart of it all. Central to this quality is the fact that we have always produced our own tools. Our clients and potential new business partners can rest assured that our promise of high quality will never change.
Driven by the expectation that the shifting of the labour-intensive spectacles industry to low-wage countries would lead to a reduction in market share, Frey & Winkler were quick to turn their attention to entering other sectors. Today, Frey & Winkler serves not only the medical engineering and optical industries, but also a number of other branches of industry, supplying them with injection-moulded parts made from diverse materials, primarily 1K and 2K parts in silicone, as well as combinations with other plastics and metals.
The company's speciality was originally the manufacture of nose pads for the spectacles industry the world over. Though these parts were initially made from cellulose acetate and soft PVC, Frey & Winkler started to produce them in silicone rubber on an industrial scale in 1982 following on from a relatively short development phase. A notable German material manufacturer even developed a special type of silicone for this purpose, which was exceptional for the high degree of transparency it provided. This component, which has since gone on to be used in over one billion spectacles, is still a firm fixture in our product portfolio.
Within the space of only ten years, Frey & Winkler made a name for itself in Germany and Europe as a supplier of high-quality stamped and punched parts. At the end of the 1960s, Oswald Frey stepped back from the company. In the period that followed, major investments were made and production began on injection-moulded components, which was a major boon to the company's growth.
Tired of the frequent customer complaints at their then employer, tool maker Oswald Frey and salesman Emil Winkler decided to forge their own path. Their field was the spectacles industry – their ambition: To make it better. Driven by this sense of purpose and financed by very little start-up capital, they had established their own company within the year; a company that still bears their names to this day: Frey & Winkler.
