News | Company | Industry

25 Nov 2022 Company founder Helmut Rohde celebrates his 80th birthday On his birthday, the current management and staff presented a large gift basket with best wishes. Helmut Rohde managed the company from 1982 to 2015 as general manager with the greatest possible commitment and laid the foundation for...

12 Nov 2022 Manuel Rohde strengthens the Rohde Management Board ROHDE continues to implement its long-term management restructuring and the development of four cross-location business units. With the reinforcement of the management board of Helmut Rohde GmbH with shareholder Manuel Rohde, another...

30 Sep 2022 REVIEW: ROHDE at Glasstec 2022 Over four days of the trade fair, from 20 to 23 September, more than 30,000 visitors from nearly 120 countries came to Düsseldorf to convince themselves about the innovative capability of the industry at Glasstec, the world's leading...

10 Sep 2022 Argillà Ceramics Festival in Faenza, Italy At last! After a break due to COVID-19, the Argillà International Ceramics Festival took place in Faenza from September 2nd to 4th, 2022. Two hundred and twenty exhibitors from all over Europe came to this city, famous for majolica and...

1 Aug 2022 City Cycling – ROHDE was there “City Cycling” is a climate-friendly competition in which the aim is to cover as many daily journeys as possible by bike over 21 days. Whether you ride your bike every day or have rarely been on a bike does not matter. Every kilometre...

17 Jul 2022 Iznang Pottery Market with Young talents Ceramics prize The latest Iznang Pottery Market on Lake Constance started on the weekend of July 16th and 17th, 2022, on the grounds of the sports facilities in Mooswald. Workshops from 9 European countries were represented and presented a great...

11 Jun 2022 Pottery Market Höhr-Grenzhausen with 2nd Open Pottery Championship The market showed a wide variety of ceramics from Europe. For the second time, the Open Pottery Championship took place, which was initiated and organised by our specialised trade partner Hans Wolbring GmbH. The competition was held on...

6 Jun 2022 A fiery practical seminar with a gas kiln On the first weekend in June, another fiery practical seminar took place at our partner Lehmhuus AG's premises in Aesch near Basel, Switzerland. The content of the seminar was a complete firing process from the glazing to charging and a...

28 May 2022 Pottery Festival by the Ammersee: 20 Years of the Diessen Ceramics Award The good weather and free admission allowed numerous visitors to stroll through one of the most beautiful and multifaceted pottery markets in Europe again, after a two-year break due to the pandemic, and admire the wonderful variety of...

15 May 2022 Diessen pottery market and special “20th Diessen Ceramics Prize” exhibition From 26-29 May 2022, a real highlight in the world of ceramics will take place again – the Diessen pottery market at the Ammersee. Year after year, more than 150 potters from many countries in Europe meet in the Upper Bavarian market...

8 May 2022 2022 TGK in-house trade fair for glass arts and crafts On May 6th and 7th, after a two-year COVID break, the 30th in-house trade fair for international trade visitors from the glass arts and crafts industry took place on the premises of TGK. With more than 30 international exhibitors,...

14 Mar 2022 Open Pottery Day For us, the 2022 travel season begins with the Germany-wide Open Pottery Day. This time we decided to visit two established potteries. The Schacht Pottery was founded in 1985 and is located in idyllic Franconian Switzerland near...

14 Mar 2022 Visit by Stefan Heuser from local specialist, Hans Wolbring GmbH We were very pleased to welcome Mr Heuser to our business premises in Prutting for the annual exchange of information. In addition to the facts and figures, insights into market development in the specialist trade were also discussed....

7 Mar 2022 Visit to the Exhibition Areas of the Diessen Pottery Market Ceramics fans can be happy: After cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year, the pottery market will again be held traditionally on Ascension Day, from May 26th to 29th. In 2022, around 160 national and international...

20 Feb 2022 Product test of the HMT 600 pottery wheel with Reinhard Keitel The visit of our long-standing company friend and ceramist, Reinhard Keitel, at the beginning of February was once again very exciting and inspiring. After the launch of our new HMT 600 pottery wheel almost two months ago, now was the...

2 Nov 2021 Factory visit by Glasurfarbwerk Widhalm and Kathrein pottery studio On October 25, 2021, we were able to welcome Mr Lennart Widhalm and his wife as well as Hansjörg Kathrein and Stefan Schmid-Duller to our production plant in the Czech Republic. We are very pleased that you took the time and, in some...

5 Oct 2021 Stefan Hasenöhrl obituary It is with great regret that we bid farewell to our long-term local specialist partner, Mr Stefan Hasenöhrl, who passed away at the end of August after a serious illness. Mr Hasenöhrl was a valued partner who was always interested in...

5 Aug 2021 ROHDE celebrates together at a joint summer party Helmut ROHDE GmbH and ROHDE spol s.r.o. have celebrated a summer party together again in the traditional way. After a year off, it was great to finally see our colleagues again. We were able to toast successful cooperation once more in a...

14 Jul 2021 Specialist Trade Partner Keramikbedarf Andrea Wolbring Has Moved Our long-term partner Keramikbedarf Andrea Wolbring moved to their new sales location in Anzing (near Munich) on July 12th, 2021. The continued growth in the number of customers over the past few years was the impetus to expanding their...

12 Jul 2021 Visiting Creußen's 23rd Pottery Market The second weekend in July was dedicated to the pottery market in the stoneware town of Creußen. The Upper Franconian city in the Bayreuth district looks back on a lively tradition of craftsmanship and carefully cultivates this heritage....

15 Jun 2021 2021 Diessen Pottery Market Cancelled The 2021 Diessen Pottery Market has been cancelled due to the ongoing pandemic situation. “It is with a heavy heart that we have to cancel the popular and well-known pottery market, which is of such great importance for our market...

4 May 2021 Expansion of the Management Team at ROHDE spol. s r.o. The management team of the ROHDE production plant, Rohde spol. s r.o. based in Dyjákovice in the Czech Republic, will be strengthened by the addition of Florian Rohde alongside his brother Benjamin Rohde from April 21, 2021. With his...

18 Mar 2021 Fritz Rossmann obituary The German ceramics scene has lost one of its leading lights – Fritz Rossmann died during the first weekend in March 2021. We remember a great and dear person who shaped and impressed the national and international ceramic landscape with...

14 Oct 2020 Heilbronn Pottery Market We are so pleased that the pottery market in Heilbronn, one of the few ceramic markets this year, was able to take place last week, despite the current difficult situation. We sampled the delights of the market which is steeped in...

8 Sep 2020 The Austrian Pottery Market in Gmunden The Austrian Pottery Market in Gmunden - for the 32nd time in the well-known scenic setting on the Traunsee From August 28th to 30th, 2020, a large part of the European pottery scene came to the Traunsee. The organizer catered for the...

15 Nov 2019 Besuch des Bürgermeisters und der Landfrauen aus Dießen Als Dankeschön für die jährliche Unterstützung bei der Verleihung des durch ROHDE ins Leben gerufenen Dießener Keramikpreises im Traidkasten, haben wir die Dießener Landfrauen und den Bürgermeister Herrn Kirsch zu einem vielseitigen...

1 Nov 2019 Werksbesuch von englischen Partnern Wir freuen uns sehr, dass wir im Oktober Grant Pratt (Fachhandel BLUEMATCHBOX POTTERS SUPPLIES) und Florian Gadsby (Keramiker & Social-Media-Artist) bei uns im Werk in Tschechien begrüßen durften. Mit den Gäste machten wir einen...

4 Oct 2019 Symposium for ROHDE Partners in the Dyjákovice Factory This year, numerous ROHDE local specialists again found their way to our production plant in Dyjákovice in the Czech Republic. From 24th to 26th September, the guests, who mainly came from German-speaking countries, were provided with a...

22 Aug 2019 ROHDE at the Pottery Market in Oldenburg At this year's International Ceramics Market in Oldenburg on 3 and 4 Aug 2019, 125 selected ceramists from Germany, various other European countries and even overseas exhibited their works. As usual, the annual market took place on the...

29 Jul 2019 Fachhandelspartner aus Frankeich zu Besuch bei ROHDE Wir freuen uns sehr, dass Anfang Juli unsere Fachhandelspartner von ROHDE France hier bei uns am Standort in Prutting waren. Claudia und Rémi Claudel (Ceram Décor in Lyon) und Denis d’Urso (Les Cousins in Marseille) kamen zum...

22 May 2019 Töpfermarkt in Diessen - das europäische Töpferhandwerk schaut zum Ammersee Seitdem die Marktgemeinde Diessen den Töpfermarkt im Jahr 2001 übernommen und am idyllischen Ufer des Ammersees angesiedelt hat, gilt er als einer der schönsten und interessantesten Töpfermärkte in Europa. Einmal als klassischer...

10 Apr 2019 Visit from Italy: CIBAS Impasti in the ROHDE factory From 2-4 April, Fabio Póli, owner of CIBAS Impasti in Bassano del Grappa (Italy), visited our production plant in Dyjákovice along with a 3-member delegation, to personally assure themselves of the strong technical character of our...

18 Apr 2019 New kilns for the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart In cooperation with our local specialist Ceramica , we have installed three new ROHDE kilns in a newly designed room of the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. A KG 340 A gas-fired frontloader, an ELS 480 S electric frontloader with...

2 Apr 2019 Gas Seminar in Höhr-Grenzhausen From 8-10 March, the Grenzhausen Ceramic Group organized the practical seminar "Firing in a gas kiln", which was carried out by ROHDE service manager Jan Stoltmann and executive director Benjamin Rohde. The seminar was divided into...

8 Nov 2018 REVIEW: ROHDE at Glasstec 2018 Over four days of the trade fair, from 23 to 26 October, more than 42,000 visitors from over 120 countries came to Düsseldorf to convince themselves about the innovative capability of the industry at Glasstec, the world's leading trade...

20 Oct 2018 Warsaw specialist trade partner "Ceramiq" on a visit to the ROHDE plant On 16 & 17 October 2018 Mr & Mrs Barnat from Warsaw visited our production plant in the Czech Republic. Agnieszka and Krzysztof Barnat have been operating their local ceramic specialist business "Ceramiq" for 10 years with a very good...

1 Oct 2018 Specialist Trade Seminar in the Production Plant in Dyjákovice From the 25th to the 27th of September 2018, the Dyjákovice production plant hosted a seminar for our English-speaking specialist trade partners with almost 20 guests from Great Britain, Denmark, Finland and Australia. We are very...

28 Sep 2018 The Lene Thun Foundation receives "Ecotop 50,000" On Friday, September 28, 2018, in Bolzano (South Tyrol), the Ecotop 60 anniversary kiln with serial number 50,000 was ceremoniously handed over to the Lene Thun Foundation. In addition to volunteers and members of the foundation, Ilona...

5 Sep 2018 Argillà Ceramics Festival in Faenza For the second time, together with our specialist dealer CIBAS Impasti - ROHDE Italia, we have taken part in the ceramics festival held every two years in Faenza. For three days, the pretty town in Emilia Romagna was all about...

17 Aug 2018 Internationale Keramiktage Oldenburg On 4th and 5th August 2018 this famous ceramic market organized by the Werkschule Oldenburg took place in the area around the ducal castle. On the castle square in the center of Oldenburg ceramic lovers and collectors could admire and...

14 Jul 2018 Cooperation with MakerSpace in Garching MakerSpace is a publicly accessible, 1500 m² high-tech workshop that gives members access to machines, tools, software, and a creative community. The workshop is aimed at ambitious start-ups, Do-It-Yourself activists and company...

2 May 2018 ROHDE Sales and Service Partner "Willems Keramiek" moved to a new building Our ROHDE Sales and Service Partner 'Willems Keramiek' in Wommelgem (close to Antwerp, Belgium) has moved to a newly erected building. The new address is: Willems Keramiek bvba Nijverheidsstraat 72 / unit 40 2160 Wommelgem...

2 May 2018 French specialist trade partners visit ROHDE production works From June 12 th to 14 th , 2018 our French partner CERAM DECOR from Lyon as well as some other partners like Cigale et Fourmis (Lille), Peter Lavem (Paris), Les Cousins (Marseille) and Solutions Céramiques (Montpellier) visited our...

20 Apr 2018 Developments and innovations for kilns and controllers: ROHDE at the Ceramitec 2018 in Munich Developments and innovations for kilns and controllers ROHDE at the Ceramitec 2018 in Munich Ceramitec, the world’s leading trade fair for the ceramics and powder metallurgy sector, was the meeting place for the international ceramic...

13 Feb 2018 CZ specialist trade partners visit the ROHDE production facilities in Dyjákovice On 8 and 9 February 2018 a seminar was held at our production facilities for our long-term Czech sales and distribution partners. The event started on Thursday with a presentation about the history and development of ROHDE. The first...

30 Jan 2018 INTERDEC AUSTRALIA visits the ROHDE production facilities After a journey of 25 hours we welcomed the latest ROHDE specialist trade partner to our plant in Dyjákovice, Czech Republic. For the last 6 months Paul Good, owner of INTERDEC AUSTRALIA, has been successfully selling our RODHE Arts and...

12 Jan 2018 Visit from our Sales Partner BEMAKTHERM Just before Christmas we welcomed our ROHDE partner from Turkey: Mr. Berk Toper (Deputy General Manager) and Can Toper (Marketing & Sales Manager). During their 2 day visit to our ROHDE production plant in Dyjákovice/CZ they were very...

29 Oct 2017 Pottery class at Keramik Gömmel, part II In October the ROHDE sales team visited the potter's supplier Keramikbedarf Gömmel in Siegsdorf once again in order to glaze the first objects made by us. We charged the kiln ourselves, thereby gaining further insight into ceramic...

2 Oct 2017 Partnership with Cockpit Arts, the London business incubator The award-winning business incubator, Cockpit Arts, has been supporting artists and small businesses since 1986 and currently houses more than 170 creative individuals in its studios in south London. In addition to the business premises...

21 Sep 2017 A fiery ROHDE hands-on seminar at Lehmhuus (CH) „A fiery ROHDE hands-on seminar”: initiated by ROHDE, a 2-day firing seminar using the atmospheric gas kiln was held at LEHMHUUS AG in Basel from 14 to 15 September 2017. Different subjects allowed the very ambitious participants to...

12 Sep 2017 Pottery class at Keramik Gömmel Last Saturday the ROHDE sales team visited the potter’s supplier Keramikbedarf Gömmel in Siegsdorf, Traunstein, for pottery classes. Actually, for most of us it was our first contact with clay and creative work and we were a bit...

4 Sep 2017 Gmunden Austrian Pottery Market 2017 Gmunden Austrian Pottery Market 2017 - For the first time, the Helmut ROHDE GmbH participated at this year’s large pottery market in Gmunden from 25 to 27 August. We shared a stand in the Town Hall Square next to the promenade along the...

28 Jul 2017 Seminar and 30th anniversary at ROHDE partner MTL- Brock To celebrate the 30th anniversary of our specialised dealer MTL-Brock, many guests, employees of BOTZ glaze manufacturer and Managing Director Benjamin Rohde visited the potter’s supplier in Augsburg, Germany. The celebration also...

10 Aug 2017 International Ceramics Fair Oldenburg For the first time, ROHDE and specialist trade dealer Michael Uciechowski from Bremen were together at the International Ceramics Fair in Oldenburg from 5 to 6 August 2017. With pleasant weather and situated in front of the impressive...

10 Aug 2017 Härterei Kongress 2017 - Weiterentwicklung der Härteofen Glüh- und Härteöfen zur Wärmebehandlung von Metallen Effiziente und ausfallsichere Wärmebehandlung von Metallen erfordert robuste, energiesparende und zuverlässige Glüh- und Härteöfen. ROHDE hat mit den neuen Glüh- und Härteöfen der...

7 May 2017 Porcelain workshop with Professor Kap-Sun Hwang und Si-Sook Kang Professor Kap-Sun Hwang, winner of the 2007 Diessen Ceramic Award, and Si-Sook Kang will present a porcelain workshop from 3 to 7 July 2017. It will be held in the workshops of the industrial monument Porzellanikon – Staatliches Museum...

6 May 2017 17th Diessen Ceramic Award It was one of the best-kept secrets around the Ammersee: the jury met on Wednesday, but the winners of this year’s Diessen Ceramic Award were only announced on Thursday. The prize was awarded to Rachel Wood from Welbeck Notts, Great...

10 Aug 2016 Kiln and firing techniques seminar at MTL-Brock The potter’s supplier “Töpferbedarf Brock” organised a seminar on ceramic kilns on July 1, 2016 in Augsburg, Germany. Ulrike Brock invited customers and other interested persons. 22 participants registered and the training room was fully...

1 Jan 2017 The Great Pottery Throw Down After a very successful first season, the Great Pottery Throw Down returns with 10 new candidates. The show was first shown on the BBC in November 2016. For the new series hosted by Sara Cox, the candidates are accompanied by...

7 Mar 2017 Exhibition at Keramik-Kraft in Bad Vöslau This year’s in-house exhibition was held from 2 to 4 March 2017 at the Keramik-Kraft branch in Bad Vöslau, Austria. Representatives of clay and glaze manufacturers and two members of the ROHDE staff were available to answer questions...

5 Apr 2017 The 21st German Volleyball Championship of the Waldorf Schools sponsored by ROHDE The Priener Waldorf School, as title-holder both in the boys´ team and girls´ team, welcomed about 180 pupils from the whole federal territory to a 3-day tournament for the championship 2017 from the 24th to the 26th of March. In...

19 Jun 2016 Einweihungsfeier der neuen ROHDE Produktionshalle Zur Einweihungsfeier der neuen Produktionshallen am ROHDE Standort in Dyjákovice waren langjährige ROHDE Fachhandels-Partner, Kunden, Lieferanten und Freunde eingeladen. Dabei konnten sich die Fachhandelspartner und Lieferanten vor Ort...

2 Dec 2016 Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel inaugurates new kilns After a 10-year planning and construction phase, the 2m3-volume ROHDE truck kiln using blast burners was inaugurated on 8 November 2016. The university’s modern ceramic workshop is now complete. Professor Kerstin Abraham, head of the...

18 Aug 2016 Review: Glasstec 2016 ROHDE presented latest news and developments in heat treatment of glass to more than 40,000 visitors at Glasstec, the world’s leading trade fair for the glass industry in Düsseldorf. Managing Director Benjamin Rohde gives a very positive...

5 Feb 2016 Generationenwechsel bei ROHDE Zum 1. Januar 2016 hat der Gründer Helmut Rohde seine Firmenanteile an der Helmut ROHDE GmbH an die nächste Generation übertragen und seinen Posten als Geschäftsführer nach über 33 Jahren niedergelegt. Neben dem geschäftsführenden...

4 Jul 2016 Kunstuniversität Linz erhält weiteren ROHDE Brennofen Die renomierte Kunstuniversität in Linz wurde mit einem weiteren ROHDE Brennofen ausgestattet. Der Herdwagenofen mit fast 2m 3 Volumen ergänzt die bestehenden Brennöfen, so dass jetzt auch größere Projekte mit den Studierenden realisiert...

15 Apr 2016 Investition in die Zukunft: Neubau- und Umbau-Arbeiten im ROHDE Produktionswerk Im ROHDE Produktionswerk in Dyjákovice (CZ) wurden in den letzten Monaten die umfangreichsten Um- und Neubauten der Firmengeschichte abgeschlossen. Die Investitionen in die unterschiedlichen Arbeitsbereiche belaufen sich auf über...

18 Aug 2016 Presseartikel OVB: ROHDE - zwei Standorte wachsen Mit einem Brennofen kann mehr als Keramik gebrannt werden. Auch das Material Glas oder die industrielle Wärmebehandlung für ganz unterschiedliche Materialien gehören zum Kerngeschäft der Helmut Rohde GmbH. Während am Standort in Prutting...

23 Nov 2015 Trade Fair Participations 12. - 14.01.2016 Euroguss in Nuremberg, Halle 7 Stand 534, www.euroguss.de 23. - 27.02.2016 METAV in Dusseldorf, www.metav.de 05. - 08.05.2016 Pottery market Dießen , Dießen am Ammersee, https://www.diessen.de 20. - 23.09.2016 Glasstec ,...