Achille Raymond
The captain of industry
War, economic and social crises - he had to deal with it all. To safeguard the business, he diversified production and opened it up to new markets: the textile industry and the automobile industry…
1914
1914 - 1918The first World War
Press-studs find a new market with military equipment.
Achille Raymond starts manufacturing primers and small shells.The men are called up to fight and are replaced by women workers who meet the challenge.The Lörrach factory is requisitioned by the German authorities.
Picture of shells manufacturing
Picture of women in a manufacturing workshop
1919
1919The company's survival
The international glove market emerges from this war substantially reduced. Achille Raymond diversifies production with eyelets, rivets and turnstiles as well as unusual products such as pipe clips, tie clips, thimbles, etc.
Black and white poster of tie fastener
German ad of the turnstile button
Timble
1925
1925Creation of the VITEX zipper
The A.Raymond Factory returns to its pre-war level.
First hardened steel fasteners and beginning of the production of the VITEX zipper which will be made for 40 years.
Fashion button
Vitex zipper
Press stud with stainless spring packaging
1925
1925Marius Conil
Manager of the German factory from 1925 to 1933, then sales manager of the French company, in the 50s he was one of the architects of the conversion to the automobile market.
Black and white picture of Marius Conil
Black and white picture of Marius Conil
Picture of the auto exhibition in Paris
1933
1933Jean Perrochat
He succeeds Marius Conil at Lörrach and will be a key figure in the revival of the German company, in 1946. He will run the company until 1975.
Black and white picture of Jean Perrochat
Picture of the ARaymond Lörrach factory
German ad of the durable dot press stud
1935
1935First patent for hardened steel clip
For trim fastenings on automobile shells.
Hardened steel car body clip
Picture of surface treatment machines
Pression nut sample product dispaly for Citroen
1939
1939 - 1945The second World War
In 1939, the Lörrach factory falls under German authority as ""enemy property"". In France, Achille Raymond is faced with mobilization. His son Albert-Victor, an officer attached to a British regiment, manages to escape from a camp where he is being held prisoner. Achille Raymond dies in 1941. Albert-Victor then takes up the reins of the Grenoble company.
Picture of Albert-Victor Raymond
1941
1941
Albert-Victor Raymond
The fighter
A man of commitment, he would steer the business during the years of occupation without renouncing its deals. The economic prosperity of the 50s and 60s turns the "Maison Raymond" into a solid business.