Our Historie
185 years – Innovation & Tradition
PIATNIK is synononomous with playing cards. It is a traditional family enterprise. The evolution from its foundation as a Card Painting house to high tech printer of Playing Cards and games was a long one. Affiliates in the old member states of the Austro Hungarian empire were lost after WWII and rebuilding international relationships have characterised the past 185 years.
History of the Piatnik Card making family
1819 | Ferdinand Piatnik the first is born in Ofen (today’s Budapest). | |
1824 | Foundation of the Card painting atelier Anton Moser in Vienna’s 7th district. | |
1843 | Ferdinand Piatnik takes over the Card painting atelier Anton Moser. | |
1882 | Atelier is renamed Ferdinand Piatnik & Sons , Vienna. | |
1885 | Ferdinand Piatnik dies, his widow continues to manage the business. | |
1891 | Construction of the factory building in Hütteldorfer Straße, Vienna. | |
1896 | Establishment of Sister Co. Piatnik Nandor es Fiai. | |
1899 | Purchase of Playing card manufacturer “Ritter & Cie" in Prague. | |
1939 | The company is transformed into the limited partnership “Wiener Spielkartenfabrik Ferd. Piatnik & Söhne” | |
1951 | Introduction of multicolour offset printing. | |
1962 | Extension of the factory grounds. | |
1968 | Extension of the assortment to include Board games and Puzzles. | |
1985 | Extension of the factory which now includes Ferro concrete buildings. | |
1988 | The company is transformed into a limited liability company. | |
1989 | Establishment of the affiliate "Piatnik of America". | |
1991 | Introduction of fully electronic Image Processing and inline Playing Card Varnishing. | |
1993 | Establishment of affiliates in Germany Hungary and Czech Republic. | |
Full overhaul of machinery. | ||
2001 | Switch to Computer to plate (CtP). | |
2003 |
| Purchase of new High Performance printing machines. |
| 2009 | 185 th anniversary. |
Wiener Spielkartenfabrik Ferd. Piatnik & Söhne, (gegründet 1824)
