2021
Launch of BoFood® DFC
2020
150 years of Epple Druckfarben
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2017
Launch of the global innovation PURe®
2015
New generation in the supervisory board and board of directors
2012
Launch of BoFood® Organic
2008
Launch of BoFood® MU and BoFood® MUT
2007
New production hall built
2001
Change of legal status to a family AG
2001
Launch of the world’s first ink system for photorealistic printing: aniva®
1995
Market launch of the world’s first mineral oil-free offset printing ink
1956
New factory built in Neusäß, Augsburg
1952
Death of Carl Epple, succeeded by his children, Karla and Rudolf Epple
1950
Relaunch in Neusäß in the Augsburg region and name change to Druckfarbenfabrik Carl Epple
1948
Expropriation by the government/cessation of the company in Radebeul
1913
Carl Epple joins the company
1895
Johann Nepomuk Otto Baer took over the company
1875
Production of coloured printing inks started
1871
Change of ownership: Robert Gysae Rußfabrik (carbon black factory)
1870
Founding of the Buch- und Steindruckfarbenfabrik (letterpress printing ink factory) by Dr. Klotzsch and Wirth in Radebeul, on the outskirts of Dresden