History of Maars
From 1946 till now, from Amsterdam to Harderwijk
The beginning on the Keizergracht
The company Maars was founded in a quaint canal-side house in Amsterdam, soon after the Second World War.

The entrepreneur Mr. L. Maars started his
fluorescent lighting company with just four employers in 1946, which later grew
to become a well-known supplier of lighting components for the brand Philips. In
the 1960s, the product range was expanded with ceilings, walls, Styleline
partition walls
and climate control systems. A full range of light, air, walls
and ceilings thus emerged. The company soon outgrew the premises in
Amsterdam and their success moved them onto greater things.

Up and coming on the Deventerweg
As an up and coming company in 1960, Maars moved to a spacious premises on the Deventerweg in Harderwijk.
Six years later they manufactured the first revolutionary ‘Styleline’ partition wall system. This classic and timeless piece is still being used today. In 1968 Maars ingeniously
introduced suspended ceilings as a logical continuation of the light fixtures range in Europe. Ventilation shafts called Blow Line were able to fit perfectly in the Lite Line ceilings.
Bigger
player in the market
In 1974 the company expanded by adding a new manufacturing area at the Newtonweg.

Here they started the production of profiles on the basis of walls and ceilings.They wanted the company to expand to the overseas
market. Mr. Maars junior took over the company and became owner and CEO in
1979. Maars continued to flourish with an expansive new product range including
the first initial development of the new updated Styleline Variant in 1981.
To
become a bigger player in the market, Maars took over the company Intersign. The
demands for high quality partitioning systems increased in 1996 and within a
year Maars broke new ground with the release of the new Metaline partitioning
wall. For the first time in history, a wall had been created which was flat,
sleek and contemporary.

Developments and milestones
When Maars Production merged with trade, projects and the staff departments of the holding in 1998, Maars became a unified company.
When Maars Production merged with trade, projects
and the staff departments of the holding in 1998, Maars became a unified
company. From this time on, Newtonweg was the only production area used and had
considerably grown to 40,000 m2. In 2001, a management buy-out of Maars
lighting systems took place, and in the same year Saint-Gobain took over the
ceiling activities (API) from Maars. Since that time, Maars decided to dedicate
their time entirely to partition walls.
Several important
milestones in both aesthetic and technical innovations took place from the
beginning of 2000 onwards. Firstly, the prototype String product was produced with
wooden panels. In 2005 a new and updated version was developed called String². Three
years later the
single glazed Glassline was invented and in 2009 the double
glazed Panorama was created. Due to an increasing demand for design and
transparency Maars introduced, in collaboration with world-renowned architects,
the fully double glazed design wall 'Lalinea' in 2014. This advanced the
developments and techniques in the partitioning wall market.
In response to the increasing demand for cubes in "open space" offices Maars introduced the new LineaCube in 2015. The following year the single glazed Glassline got replaced by Horizon, which fits perfectly on the minimalistic profiles of lalinea. In 2016, Maars pronounced it would revitalize its collaboration with Maars Lighting systems (MLS). Maars is going ‘back to its roots’.