History

Transporting valuable goods used to be a responsible and difficult task for travelling salespeople in the past. Especially in the Black Forest between Pforzheim and Basel, there were numerous narrow trails and challenging passages over mountains and through valleys that could only be negotiated on foot and with great effort. But the region’s inhabitants have always been deft and practical, and so they developed special pack frames to transport all kinds of goods such as glassblowing art, cuckoo clocks and carvings. These pack frames effectively protected the merchandise and could also be used for the presentation and exhibition of goods in markets and exchanges.

With the rise of mobility, salespeople were soon able to travel faster and more safely. A new demand for protective and representative packaging for valuable products soon developed. This demand prompted the Black Forest craftsman Karl Faisst nearly 50 years ago to launch the development and production of professional transport cases.

And so in 1963, the first Faisst case left the new workshop built in the small town of Altensteig in the northern Black Forest, beginning its conquest of Germany and neighbouring countries such as Austria and Switzerland. This spirit of innovation remains alive and well at Faisst to this day. Even though a modern train of machines supports the fabrication of our premium cases, our people are still the ones who develop and build every case to meet the individual requirements of the goods being transported.