Rota A/S, originally Rota Maskinfabrik, was founded in 1973 by Tage Rosenberg. The name Rota comes from Rosenberg, Tage. Rota was a one-man company for a few years, but in 1978 the engineering works was taken over by Knud Christensen, who decided to take on staff. This changed the company's structure. At the same time Tetra Oak became its new principle customer. Throughout the 80s and 90s, Tetra Pak accounted for 90% of the turnover, and with its strict requirements for quality and production control over all those years Tetra Pak has helped shape Rota's development - from a small machine shop to a dynamic and modern manufacturer for the machine manufacturing industry.

In 1996 we decided to extend our premises in Herlev, created a new production flow design, and set up new, efficient machining equipment. This created an improved work environment enabling our skilled workforce to achieve optimum quality on even advanced and technically difficult products.

At Rota A/S we have deliberately chosen not to use ISO 9001 certification and instead have built up a quality control system that runs parallel with ISO certification. This decision is due to the fact that in the course of a year there are so few discrepancies/complaints. So we think being certified would only increase costs unnecessarily, thus increasing prices for our customers.

Our quality control system ensures that customers enjoy doing business with us. We have written procedures for everything from complaints to changes in technical drawings. We are constantly evaluated by customers that have ISO 9001 certification. These customers do not normally come with new requirements after such an evaluation, because we already meet their requirements.