About UsEstablished in 1961, KOHNLE GmbH has been successfully managed until 1989 by the founder
and owner, Mr. Wolfgang KOHNLE. Ownership has been transferred to an U.S. venture capital group
in 1989 and remained there until 1995, when a small group of local, private shareholders purchased
the company.
KOHNLE remained to stay at the same location - Birkenfeld / Pforzheim - in the south of Germany
in the northern outbound of the black forest, though it s facilities several times underwent expansion
and modernization measures.
The focus of KOHNLE for the first 20 years of it s existence was mainly the local watch & jewelry industry
as well as surgical instruments industry, whom were back then demanding a large number of small
and medium size continuous straight trough annealing furnaces.
Towards the end of the 1970's, KOHNLE introduced larger and more complex heat treatment
to the market and at the same time market activities increased throughout Germany and also beginning
on some selected export markets.
About ten years later - at the end of the 1980's - the product portfolio could be expanded again,
now introducing a full range of state of the art gas heating systems. At the same time, available capacity
has been increased up to 1.000 kg/hr and more export markets, including overseas were served as well.
Again, a decade later - 1999 - KOHNLE embarked under new management to increase the diversity
of it s product portfolio, including numerous new developments. Kohnle heat treating lines could be
successfully placed within the automotive industry, since then the central focus of the company.
New and renewed licence contracts with partners located in China, India, Brazil and Japan as well as
numerous new representative agreements throughout the world now underline the international approach
and presence of KOHNLE.
Today, the export market share is continuously increasing.
At KOHNLE s headquarter - Birkenfeld, Germany - approx. 40 engineers and employees are taking care
of development, design, detail- and final factory assembly and testing of all equipment. |
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