History A lot has happened in over 170 years of company history:

Founded in 1854 as Teppichkontor by Leopold Schoeller in Düren in the Rhineland, we have dedicated ourselves to textile floor design ever since. In all its facets. And have already achieved a number of successes in the process. For example, our company founder was one of the first to produce printed carpets in Germany using Whytock's warp dyeing process, we had broadloom and tufted carpets in our portfolio from an early stage and we opened up the transport sector as a business segment in the golden 1920s – with the furnishing of ships, trains and zeppelins – and later also successfully entered the contract market.

This foresight has been a core characteristic of the company from the very beginning – as well as its innovative strength, willingness to experiment and cooperative partnerships. These characteristics are still essential to our success today. After all, we are not only THE specialist for woven carpets that works with numerous internationally known architects, interior designers and other designers, but we also set standards throughout the industry in regard to innovation, materials, use of resources and design.

We are co-founders of GUT and Domotex and have worked with Bauhaus artists to put progressive textile designs into practice. We also created the famous carpet designed by Prof. Margret Hildebrand for the German Pavilion at the EXPO 1958 in Brussels. We introduced design classics such as Perlon Rips to the market and fitted the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin with carpeting. We developed displacement ventilation carpeting for the plenary chamber of the German Bundestag, were the first ever manufacturer of textile floorings to use Econyl® and we conducted pioneering design studies for the aviation industry. We …

Seen in this light, that's quite a lot. However, resting on our laurels is still out of the question for us. On the contrary: We have just as many plans for the next 170 years – after all, it's not for nothing that they say: ANKER carpets – simply everywhere!

Our company history can be read in more detail on Wikipedia–and in our portrait of the company's 150th anniversary.