The ECOBRA Company was established 1893 in Nuremberg by a
master craftsman called Johann Eichmüller. In the Middle Ages many compass
forges were located in this area.
From then on ECOBRA has been dealing with the construction
and manufacturing of compasses both for
the educational and the professional sector.
After some years of business very active trade relations
started with the USA, where at that time the industrialization set in.
After the company’s founder passed away in 1908 the factory
for drafting instruments, which at that time was called “Eichmüller & Co.”
, developed to one of the most important business companies of this branch and
kept constantly expanding. In 1922 the company was transformed into a public
limited company named “Bayerische Reißzeugfabrik AG” formerly “Eichmüller &
Co.”
Later on ECOBRA got its name out of the company’s initials
EICHMÜLLER & CO. BAYERISCHE REISSZEUGFABRIK AKTIIENGESELLSCHAFT and hence the world-famous trademark “ECOBRA”
was born.
EICHMÜLLER & CO. BAYERISCHE REISSZEUGFABRIK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT.
During the fifties the ECOBRA drafting instruments were exported into more than 60 countries. At the end of 1968 ECOBRA succeeded in constructing a geometry compass with quick-action mechanism,
2 pressure levers and automatic setting of the spindle. Even
today this modern type of compass is sold very well.
