Our history

2025

• Since 2025, we have been a member of SEDEX, meeting internationally recognized standards for responsible supply chains. SEDEX supports companies in ensuring transparency in areas such as labor standards, environmental practices, health and safety, and business ethics.
  With this step, we reinforce our commitment to sustainable and responsible business practices.
  
  

2023

• With our new, open stand on Toy Fair in Nuremberg we present ourselves to our customers and show the potential of our RE-Wood® material also for special item enquiries.
  
  
• Products made from RE-Wood PEFC-certified since September 2023.
  For this, the wood flour used must come as a waste product from sustainably managed forestry and the binder from recycled sources. In addition, we guarantee the sourcing of the wood flour exclusively from regional sources in Germany.
  

2022

• We are a proud founding member of the "Unternehmensnetztwerk Klimaschutz“ (Climate Protection Corporate Network).
  

2021

• In April we launch our new website: www.wissner-aktiv-lernen.com.
• Corona has a firm grip on this year too, but we support children, students and parents in homeschooling with Learning Game Sets that make learning fun

2019

• Addition of a further warehouse.

2020

• Expansion of the machine park.
• Construction of the new website.

2018

• Other ways: developing educational game sets for the book, stationery and toy trade, other target groups and serving new markets.
• We are working on our image: a new corporate design, a consistent fixing of corporate goals as well as the obligatory orientation towards more sustainability in all areas bring a breath of fresh air into our halls and strengthen the identification with the values we have imposed on ourselves.
  
  

2016

• 40th company anniversary
• Introduction of the MAG-Pap° brand for a two-component material made of cardboard protected from dirt by a transparent film and a fully laminated magnetic film.
• Expansion of the product range through the development of didactic learning games with a focus on mathematics.

2015

• In the fast lane: For the first time, we are producing more articles from our ecological and carbonneut-ral RE-Wood® material than in plastic.

2013

• The product range is growing: through the acquisition of the company "Karst", we are now able to offer didactic learning materials for language, traffic education and meteorology in addition to the mathematical focus.

2012

• The development continues: We are switching the production of many articles from plastic to our self-developed material RE-Wood®, which is based on recycled wood waste.
  
  

2011

• We are bursting at the seams: That is why we are doubling our production and office space. The ma-chinery is also being enlarged and modernised.
  
  

2010

• Jess Wißner joins the team and takes over the areas of production and goods purchasing.
• The beginning of a successful cooperation: We win the Bensheim workshops for people with mental illness and mental disabilities as a partner. A trusting cooperation that continues to this day.
• We are selling more to France through a new contractual partner.

2009

• The "PROFI-linie" brand for blackboard drawing instruments is introduced.
• For the sake of the environment: For the first time, we are using recycled plastic material with the RE-Plastic® designation.

2006

• Learning with a system: Under the guiding principle of the "active learning" trademark, we are alig-ning more and more of our products as system work tools.
• We take part in the Nuremberg Toy Fair for the first time and are still exhibitors there today.
  

2005

• Jörn Wißner joins the company being sespondible for Sales, Marketing & Product Development

2003

• Now we are finally getting the name you know us by: "WISSNER GmbH".
  

1994

• Construction of an additional production hall for the manufacture of drawing templates on NC-controlled milling machines developed in-house.

1986

• We move: Acquisition of a plot of land at the current location in Zeppelinstraße in Bensheim. We build a production hall with an adjoining office wing and a canteen.
  
  

1982

• The company name is changed to "Wissner Schulartikel Produktions GmbH". At the same time, the production of drawing templates starts under the newly founded company "Wissner Zeichenschablo-nenproduktion GmbH".
• The product range grows: Through the takeover of the company "Vogt Lehrmittelverlag" and the start of the production and development of didactic teaching and learning materials, the product range can be expanded.

1978

• One of the first trade fair participations abroad - here in Cairo.
  

1976

• The story begins: Jürgen Wißner founds the company "WILAU"with the aim of producing mathematical teaching and learning materi-als for schools in his own company and distributing them to the teaching materials trading.