GKD - Gebr. Kufferath

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GKD - Gebr. Kufferath AG

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legal form AG
founding 1925
Seat Düren-Mariaweiler , Germany
management Board:
  • Karl Ingo Kufferath-Kassner
  • Stephan Kufferath-Kassner
Number of employees 764 (group) (2017)
sales EUR 87.0 million (group) (2016)
Branch Weaving mill for metal and plastics
Website www.gkd.de

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The GKD Gebr. Kufferath AG is a family company founded in 1925 with headquarters in Mariaweiler , a district of Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia . The unlisted stock corporation is the parent company of the corporation of the same name, which includes subsidiaries in the USA, South Africa, France, China, Spain, India and Chile.

GKD-Gebr. Kufferath develops and produces technical meshes made of metal wire and plastic as well as spiral mesh and processes these products according to the requirements of clients in industry and architecture, among other things, into process belts, filter systems and architectural mesh. The company is regarded as the world market leader in this area and is the market leader in metal mesh with a 90% market share.

In 2017, the GKD Group achieved sales of EUR 87 million and employed 764 people worldwide as of December 31 of the year. With 443 employees, the parent company in Düren is the group's largest employer.

history

The owner-managed company was founded in 1925 by Josef Kufferath and is now run by the third generation of the brothers Ingo Kufferath and Stephan Kufferath.

GKD has been manufacturing architectural meshes since 1992; As a first project, the new building of the National Library in Paris designed by Dominique Perrault was equipped with a fine metal mesh. The company's architectural mesh structures include: B. the Kunsthalle Mannheim , the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, the Indemann observation tower , the Planet m from Bertelsmann at the Expo 2000 . Striking buildings such as the Fifa headquarters in Zurich and the opera in Beijing followed. The company also supplied the wind protection for the conversion of the Holmenkollbakken for the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2011 .

In 2008, the GKD Group achieved the highest turnover in the company's history with over 106 million euros.

Business activity

GKD-Gebr. Kufferath has a total of six production sites in Germany, the USA, Chile, South Africa, India and China, as well as branches in France, Spain and Dubai. There are also worldwide agencies.

The production and development activities of the GKD Group are divided into the business areas of industrial mesh (technical mesh and filter solutions), process belts ( conveyor belts made of mesh for production plants), architectural mesh (metal mesh for building facades, ceilings and interior architecture) and transparent media facades (stainless steel mesh with integrated LEDs) .

The company's products are used in the automotive and aviation industries, in medical and environmental technology, in the chemical, pharmaceutical, food and textile industries, in the wood and paper processing industries, in mining, in the oil-producing industry and in architecture and design used. In addition to series production, GKD develops individual solutions based on customer specifications. In the development of new filter fabrics, the company uses simulation software that enables fabric parameters to be varied virtually and thus to construct fabrics with optimized flow and filtration properties with fewer test weaves.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c GKD: Worldwide on the road to success. GKD-Gebrüder Kufferath AG, July 11, 2018, accessed on December 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Michael Kuntz: Sieved air . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 19, 2007, p. 18 .
  3. ↑ GKD-Gebrüder Kufferath AG - Consolidated Financial Statements 2016. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Optimal workmanship and custom-fit finishing. GKD-Gebrüder Kufferath AG, accessed on December 30, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .
  6. ^ Hermann Simon : Hidden Champions - Aufbruch nach Globalia , Campus-Verlag , 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39714-6 restricted preview in the Google book search
  7. ↑ Woven metal mesh systems by GKD. Architectural Review, March 1, 2011, accessed December 30, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Hermann Simon: Hidden Champions of the 21st Century , Campus Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38380-4, limited preview in the Google book search
  9. ↑ milestones. GKD-Gebrüder Kufferath AG, accessed on December 30, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Large-scale architectural mesh application: French National Library. GKD-Gebrüder Kufferath AG, accessed on December 30, 2018 .
  11. ^ National Library of France - Interiors. Dominique Perrault Architecture, accessed December 30, 2018 .
  12. ↑ a b Christine Scharrenbroch: We are something like a tinkerer . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 27, 2004, p. 12 .
  13. ↑ Peter Kiefer: The art gallery is "grilled" with this metal net. Mannheim 24.de, March 21, 2017, accessed December 30, 2018 .
  14. ^ BauNetz Media GmbH: European Court of Justice in Luxembourg - golden cover made of aluminum wire . In: Baunetz knowledge . ( baunetzwissen.de [accessed September 25, 2018]).
  15. ↑ D. Wendeln-Münchow: The Expo 2000 gains face through steel. Ingenieur.de, July 21, 2000, accessed December 30, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Düren metal weaving mill conquers the world
  17. ↑ GKD fabric from Düren am Holmenkollen
  18. ↑ GKD-Gebrüder Kufferath AG - Consolidated Financial Statements 2008. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
  19. ↑ GKD Kufferath - Sixth record result in a row. Industrieanzeiger, May 4, 2009, accessed December 30, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Technical fabrics and filter solutions. GKD-Gebrüder Kufferath AG, accessed on December 30, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Process belts. GKD-Gebrüder Kufferath AG, accessed on December 30, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Architectural mesh . GKD-Gebrüder Kufferath AG, accessed on December 30, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Transparent media facades. GKD-Gebrüder Kufferath AG, accessed on December 30, 2018 .
  24. ↑ Metal mesh specialist: GKD-Gebr. Kufferath AG. GKD-Gebrüder Kufferath AG, accessed on December 30, 2018 .
  25. ↑ We develop extraordinary solutions. (PDF) GKD-Gebrüder Kufferath AG, accessed on December 30, 2018 .
  26. ↑ GKD - Gebr. Kufferath AG: Disk filters as an alternative to sand filters. Wasserwirtschaft Wassertechnik - The practical magazine for drinking and wastewater management, March 7, 2016, accessed on December 30, 2018 .
  27. ↑ Simulation tools support the development of new products. GKD-Gebrüder Kufferath AG, accessed on December 30, 2018 .
  28. ↑ Porometric filter mesh - the new wire mesh made by GKD. GKD-Gebrüder Kufferath AG, accessed on December 30, 2018 .
  29. ↑ Multi-layer fabric simulated. Wire website, February 1, 2012, accessed December 30, 2018 .
  30. ↑ Dominik Herper: Numerically calculated instead of estimated. Industrie.de, November 13, 2017, accessed December 30, 2018 .
  31. ↑ Design Prize 2009: The Winners ( Memento from September 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  32. ^ German Design Council (ed.): Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany 2009 . Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-7643-8983-3 , p. 114 ( Silver Prize Winner: Mediamesh ).

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