The company Mücke-Melder, based in Vítkovice, now Czech Republic, was founded in 1915 by the merger of the wire goods factory of Emil Mücke in Moravská Ostrava with the hardware factory of Hugo Melder in Vítkovice. The company processed iron, wire and sheet metal. In 1923, a factory for iron and brass furniture was added in Přívoz.
The Mücke-Melder company began manufacturing furniture from nickel- and chrome-plated steel tubes in 1928.
In January 1933, Hugo Melder moved the company’s headquarters from Vítkovice to Fryštát (now Karviná). From then on, he ran the company himself, but did not change the well-established trade name Mücke-Melder.
He focused on the production of metal furniture including Thonet models.
During the Second World War the plant produced also for the German Wehrmacht. In 1940, as part of the so-called Sudetenarisierung, Hugo Melder bought the Fischel bent furniture factory in Mimoni, where he subsequently produced wooden propellers for Luftwaffe aircraft.
The enterprise was nationalized in October 1945. The plants in Fryštát were subsumed by the national enterprise Kovona Karviná and the former enterprise Fischel Thonet in Bystřice pod Hostýnem (later the national enterprise Ton).