With over 100 years of company history and long standing experience in vehicle seat construction RECARO knows how to make long journeys a pleasure for the whole family. Materials, design and technical highlights ensure a pleasant journey for adults and children alike.
Key RECARO milestones leading to today’s RECARO child seats:
RECARO is founded by the master saddler Wilhelm Reutter in Germany
Initially RECARO was a body factory, which produced bodies for cars like the Porsche 356, VW Beetle and BMW 328
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RECARO introduced the first seat with integrated seatbelt
Introduction of the first racing shell with head protection
RECARO strengthens its newest field of business, “child seating” by taking over the German traditional company “Storchenmuehle”
The lightest serially-produced seat in the world at that time was brought onto the market as the carbon shell seat of the Porsche Carrera GT
RECARO decided to move beyond automotive OEM seating, automotive Aftermarket seating, and Motorsports seating into the market of Child restraints for the United States
RECARO continued to be an innovator in the child safety restraint industry and introduced their second generation of child seats
RECARO launches the ProSERIES, a revolutionary collection of child restraint systems that feature RECARO's latest technology in Side Impact Protection which has been refined through years of providing safe seating for automotive and OEM markets.