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IKA Werke GmbH & Co. KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1910
Seat Staufen im Breisgau , Germany
management René Stiegelmann
Number of employees approx. 900
sales approx. EUR 150 million
Branch Laboratory technology, analysis technology, mechanical engineering
Website www.ika.com
Status: 2019

The IKA Werke are a company laboratory equipment, analytical and process technology .

history

Today's IKA-Werke was founded in Cologne in 1910 as a trading company for pharmaceutical supplies Janke & Kunkel OHG . From 1920 the company began to develop and manufacture laboratory and measuring devices, electrolysis devices and other equipment for university and industrial laboratories. The company was completely destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942 and found a new location in Staufen im Breisgau . Some of the employees also moved to Staufen. After the war, foreign trade relations intensified. The management found the product and brand name Janke & Kunkel too cumbersome in non-German-speaking areas, and so it was replaced by IKA in 1948 . Economic growth and reconstruction in the post-war years increased the need for industrial machines. In 1955, IKA responded by expanding the existing product range to include industrial machines for the areas of dispersing and kneading. The first foreign subsidiary was founded in the USA in 1985 .

After another increase in sales in 2008, the company was hit by the global economic crisis in early 2009 . Due to the sharp drop in sales and the expected loss, the company announced job cuts. Despite some of the employees being absent, the management refused to negotiate. In 2012, sales exceeded 100 million euros for the first time

Corporate structure

Access to the IKA works in Staufen

The company's business activities are divided into the areas of laboratory technology, analysis technology and process technology . The managing director is the partner René Stiegelmann.

The manufacturing plants are the headquarters in Staufen im Breisgau and the branches in Wilmington (North Carolina, USA), Guangzhou (China) and Bangalore (India). The company also has sales offices in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Osaka (Japan), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Seoul (Korea), Oxford (UK) and Warsaw (Poland).

Products

The Laboratory Technology division develops and produces magnetic stirrers, agitators, shaking machines, dispersers, mills, pipettes, heating baths, heating plates, thermostats, block thermostats, centrifuges, rotary evaporators, laboratory reactors, torque measuring devices, viscometers, vacuum technology and laboratory device software.

The Analysis Technology division develops and produces calorimeters and vacuum pumps. IKA has been manufacturing calorimeters since 1922.

The Process Technology division supplies machines for kneading, mixing and stirring for the chemical, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and food industries. Individual machines, modular series and complete systems are developed and manufactured. In the so-called pilot program, machines are created for processes between the laboratory and production scale.

In 2012, IKA presented more than 50 further and new developments at the leading trade fair ACHEMA, including two world innovations.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2017 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ 100 years of IKA works. 1910–2010 Insights Memories Stories ( Memento of September 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , Staufen im Breisgau 2010, pages 19–21 (PDF, accessed November 29, 2013)
  3. ^ Warning strike by IKA employees , Badische Zeitung, October 23, 2009
  4. ^ Birthday in troubled times , Badische Zeitung, July 19, 2010
  5. ↑ a b Staying competitive with innovations , Badische Zeitung, January 12, 2013

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