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Our Historie
190 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.