Quality from Experience
Zorn Company is a family-run traditional business based in Hesse that continuously explores new ways to align the quality of its premium outdoor products with technological progress. What began as a small idea at the family breakfast table has since gained worldwide recognition and appreciation.
The Zorn family places special emphasis on innovation combined with ecological standards in the manufacturing process, creating products that offer practical value for all kinds of outdoor activities.
1949 – Company Founded:
„What keeps heat in also keeps cold in.“
Elisabeth and her husband Wilhelm Zorn are sitting together at the breakfast table. They cherish this time together, as they are usually both very busy: Wilhelm often travels for sales of balneotherapeutic products, and it was through this work that he once inspired his wife with a genuine business idea. In 1948, he visited hospitals in Hesse to sell PVC inserts for mattress pads. It was these sheets that inspired Elisabeth to make tablecloths with wide borders from the material. The idea was so well received that the product range was soon expanded to include household aprons and coffee warmers.
But back to the breakfast table: Elisabeth used one of her own coffee warmers for her breakfast egg. Then she suddenly said to her husband, “What keeps things warm also keeps them cold. Couldn’t the coffee warmer do that too?” That was enough to spark Wilhelm’s inventive spirit, and he quickly developed the first ZORN insulated bag from the warmer. Growing interest from retailers and customers soon meant that the production facilities in their barn in the small town of Romrod near Alsfeld became too limited.
1953 - Expansion and Relocation
In search of a larger production and distribution site where the product range could also be expanded, Elisabeth and Wilhelm Zorn chose Inheiden, in the central Hessian district of Gießen, in 1953. In the years that followed, Zorn products continued to evolve and became synonymous in Germany’s outdoor and sports industry with quality and outstanding thermal insulation.
1980 - The Second Generation
With the takeover of the business by Manfred and Wolfgang Zorn, the sons of Elisabeth and Wilhelm, the family company became increasingly well known around the world over the years. This was also due to the expanded product range, which included innovative thermoelectric cool boxes, passive cool boxes made of PU (polyurethane) foam, ice packs, and the original Zorn Thermo Soft cooler bags.
2019 – THE THIRD GENERATION AND PRODUCTS FOR THE 2020S
We continue to create innovative, high-quality, and category-leading outdoor products, with their current focus being the development of new solutions for environmentally and ecologically friendly, as well as energy efficient, thermoelectric coolers.
The Zorn GmbH headquarters are located at Ezetilstraße 1 – D 35410 Hungen – Inheiden, Germany (approx. 60 km north of Frankfurt).
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