History
IKS Klingelnberg: Innovation with Tradition
For about two decades, the IKS Klingelnberg Group is an independent company with surpassing success in the growth sector of industrial knives.
The company expanded from a local trading firm to a typical medium-sized company and up to a global player with an international standing in the segment of machine knives.
| 1863 |
Registration in the Commercial Register |
| 1908 |
Start of production of machine knives |
| 1922 |
The toolmaker’s shop in Hückeswagen is changed into a
special engineering shop (today Klingelnberg GmbH in
Hückeswagen) |
| 1991 |
Legal spin-off of „Industry Knives Business“ (IKS Klingelnberg GmbH in Remscheid) from “Engineering Business” (Klingelnberg GmbH Hückeswagen),
birth of IKS Klingelnberg as an independent Group |
| 1991 |
Acquisition of „Geringswalder Werkzeug GmbH“ in Saxony,
today´s IKS Messerfabrik Geringswalde GmbH |
| 1993 |
Construction of the new knife factory in
Remscheid-Bergisch Born and move from Berghauser Straße
to Bergisch Born |
| 1995 |
Establishment of IKS Klingelnberg Asia Ltd. in Singapore
and Shanghai IKS Mechanical Blade Co. Ltd. in Shanghai |
| 1997 |
Acquisition of ROLF MEYER Messer- und
Ersatzteilfabrikation GmbH in Bargteheide near Hamburg |
| 1998 |
Acquisition of DIACARB B.V. in Rotterdam/Netherlands and
Buland S.A. in Palaiseau near Paris/France |
| 2000 |
Acquisition of BÖHLER MILLER Messer und Sägen GmbH with
production sites in Böhlerwerk/Austria and Traismauer/Austria |
| 2001 |
Establishment of TKM GmbH in Remscheid, the holding
company of the IKS Klingelnberg Group owned by the
shareholder families Klingelnberg and Meyer |
| 2001 |
Acquisition of OY Saksan Terä AB in Espoo/Finland |
| 2001 |
Establishment of IKS Knife and Saw, Indonesia |
| 2002 |
Establishment of TKM United States INC. in Hebron, KY/USA |
| 2005 |
Acquisition of all shares in TTT Technology OY AB,
Toijala, Finland with factories in Outokumpu and Toijala |
| 2005 |
Establishment of TKM Canada Industries Inc., St.
Alphonse DE Granby, Canada |
| 2006 |
Acquisition of the industry knive business of Guhdo (Guhdo
Carb) and subsequent integration into the IKS
Klingelnberg GmbH |
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