About Pressalit

Pressalit A/S is a Danish privately-owned company with production facilities in Ry, Denmark. Since 1954, we have been designing and producing toilet seats of the highest quality. And since 1975, Pressalit has also been developing accessible bathrooms and height-adjustable kitchens for people with reduced mobility. This has made us one of the world’s leading manufacturers of premium bathroom solutions. High quality, flawless design and reliable functionality are the core features of our wide range of products.

We are creative. We are innovative. We are passionate about what we do, and that rubs off on our performance. Together we face challenges and create solutions in a creative and dynamic environment where everyone has the chance to put their ideas into practice.

Pressalit as a workplace can be described with these phrases: Be Responsible, Have Impact and Act United.

HISTORY

Pressalit was formed in 1954, but the idea behind it came about two years earlier

In a workshop in Esbjerg, two carpenters are shutting up shop for the day. But then a cat bolts past them, knocking over a pot of glue in its haste. The glue runs down the hot radiator and lands on the sawdust on the workshop floor. The result is a material with a promising potential to become toilet seats. A potential that chemical engineer Nielsen confirms after having examined the material more closely. Two years later, the company Pressalit is born.

The reason that Ry remained Pressalit's headquarters is because one of the carpenters came from there. People knew him and the local bank was happy to lend him money. The money was invested in a small, low-rise factory building, located in a fruit plantation, and some modest production tools, such as a food mixer from a bakery for mixing powders in. So it started small. Very small. But the company was christened - without false modesty - Dansk Pressalit Industri.

In order to sell the toilet seats, the company got in touch with someone who knew the plumbing industry inside out: Martin Jensen (grandfather to Kim and Dan Boyter) was employed as salesman in 1954 and quickly became the co-owner. Since then Pressalit has grown into the company it is today.