Fresh in the company, Isabelle Mang already reacts to the Corona pandemic in April 2020 with a smart idea. Almost overnight, Arno Arnold develops a face visor that can be easily plugged together. A very large proportion of the visors are delivered as donations to hospitals, medical facilities and nursing homes. In times of unavailable hygiene, disinfection and protection means, they help the medical staff to protect themselves against infection with Covid 19.

The logistics center will be expanded and modernized. The structural connection of the new logistics center with the assembly plant ensures a smooth, rapid production cycle and speedy delivery.

A large number of new technical aids will make numerous work processes easier for employees. In this way, customers worldwide receive products from Arno Arnold in Obertshausen reliably as always, but now even faster.

Arno Arnold completes the new visitor center in Obertshausen with a new representative showroom and the extraordinary company museum.

Here, customers, guests and visitors can experience many innovative developments live and learn about the possible applications of Arnold protective covers by means of examples.

Arno Arnold looks back on 10 years of successful certification according to the latest edition of the standard DIN EN ISO 9001.

Many promising new product developments show the innovative power and strength of Arno Arnold, which is furthermore impressively proven by the registration of many patents, utility models and industrial property rights.

ARNOLD grows and grows and grows...

Arno Arnold grows and grows and grows... With an increase in incoming orders of more than 20 % the company continues its upward course. With the purchase of about 1,400 sqm of production and storage space and after quickly completed renovation work, the expansion of production could be started in June 2006.

With the possibility of being able to manufacture high-quality products quickly, precisely and reliably in Germany, the European, American and increasingly also the Asian sales markets offer great opportunities. Therefore, a Chinese subsidiary was founded in Taicang this year. With innovations, customer proximity and technology leadership Arno Arnold maintains its strong position on these markets.

Due to the steadily increasing interest in Arnold products, the year 2001 was also marked by growth.
For this reason Arno Arnold doubled its production area at the Obertshausen location at the beginning of the year.

The rapid and positive development of the order situation in the field of protective cover systems as well as the expansion of product lines and new patent applications prompted Arno Arnold to build a new production and administration building.
A suitable site was found in the vicinity of the previous production facility and in 1989 it was possible to increase production in the new premises in accordance with new state-of-the-art work processes.

In 1971, the company finally said goodbye to the bandoneon. But not from the traditional commitment to manufacture high quality products that meet customer requirements.

The company moved into its first own premises and already had a considerable number of qualified employees.

Whether it was because of the skilled workers of the leather goods manufacturers, the raw material leather itself, or friendly relations, is not flawlessly vouched for. In any case, it was not land or investment grants financed by the municipality. There was no such thing at that time - only entrepreneurial risk. And that was rewarded.

The bandoneon still played an important role in the "new" Arno Arnold company. But the change was unstoppable. The company kept pace with the reconstruction of the German economy and concentrated more and more on the production of bellows.

In 1930, the Reich Patent Office granted the company Arnold in Carlsfeld a patent for a "harmonica-shaped bellows for the protective cover of guideways on machine tools, in particular on slide guides for grinding machines". If you look at the associated design drawings in layman's terms, you can almost see the bandoneon technique in front of you.

The bellows developed as a second mainstay alongside the world-famous "AA" bandoneons. And there were also advances in bandoneon manufacturing. In order to speed up the work processes, Arnold wrote in 1942 on the subject of "What tools do I need for the first operations": A 3-spindle drill to prevent changing drills while working.

The bandoneon manufacturing company grew with the popularity of the musical instrument. The bellows instrument enjoyed growing popularity in the "bandonion clubs" of the labor movement, especially in the Ruhr and Saxony.

Arnold's beginnings are inextricably linked with the tango. This fashionable dance, which originated in Argentina, conquered the bars and brothels of big cities all over the world at the end of the 18th century. An instrument that interpreted the music of the tango like no other was the bandoneon, the flexible hand-pulled instrument whose bellows transported the air for the notes.