Keiper
| Keiper GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1920 |
| Seat | Kaiserslautern |
| management | Elmar Deegener, Manfred Rotterdam, Dr. Reiner Spatke, Robert Bruce McDonald, Jerome Dennis Okarma |
| Number of employees | 6,142 (2008) |
| sales | 808.6 million euros (2008) |
| Branch | Automotive supplier |
| Website | www.adient.com |
The Keiper GmbH & Co. KG was a German automotive supplier based in Kaiserslautern . Keiper developed and produced seat components and multifunctional seat structures made of metal for international automobile manufacturers and their system suppliers. In 2008, the company employed around 6,150 people worldwide at 19 locations in North and South America, Europe and Asia. In the 2008 financial year, Keiper achieved worldwide sales of EUR 808.6 million. Keiper became a subsidiary of Johnson Controls in 2010 . In June 2015 it became known that Johnson Controls wanted to sell the automotive division and with it Keiper GmbH & Co. KG again. The divisions went into the newly founded company Adient .
Company history
Fritz Keiper founded the company in 1920 in Remscheid , Berg, under the name Fritz Keiper Verdeck- und Beschlagfabrik . The trained blacksmith made a name for himself in the first decades with solutions for roof tops for vehicle bodies. In 1937 he achieved the breakthrough with his "patented Keiper sleeper seat fitting": With this retrofit solution, the backrest of a vehicle seat could be individually adjusted for the first time.
In 1983 the company merged with the Baden-Württemberg vehicle seat manufacturer Recaro and operated under the name Keiper Recaro GmbH & Co. until 1997. In 1997, four legally and economically independent divisional companies were created. The just-in-time division Keiper Car Seating was sold in 1998. The three remaining companies have since been active in different business fields: Keiper with seat components, seat structures and development services for automobile manufacturers and their suppliers (for cars and for commercial vehicles); Recaro with vehicle seats ( Recaro Automotive Seating ) for the original equipment and aftermarket (including child seats; brands KEIPER and STORCHENMÜHLE ), as well as Recaro Aircraft Seating with seats for aircraft.
All three companies are united under the umbrella of PUTSCH GmbH & Co. KG , based in Kaiserslautern, which holds the shares in the three divisions under the name Keiper Recaro Group .
At the end of 2010, the group of companies was sold to the US automotive supplier Johnson Controls . The child seats and RECARO Aircraft Seating were not affected.
At the beginning of 2015, the South American business with three locations in Brazil and around 1,000 employees was sold to Prevent DEV . Putsch Holding has thus parted with all Keiper holdings worldwide.
Products
Keiper's core products are standardized seat back adjusters and other adjustment components for everything to do with vehicle seats. In addition, complete seat structures for front seats as well as rear systems with multifunctional solutions are part of the product range. In addition, 'Keiper Engineering' offers development services for complete seating systems in the front and rear areas. Keiper entered the commercial vehicle business in 2007.
Locations
The company is present worldwide with a total of 20 development, sales and production locations.
- North America: Battle Creek Mich., Troy & Eldon (USA), London (Canada)
- South America: São Paulo , Curitiba (Brazil), Mauá (Brazil)
- Europe: Kaiserslautern (company headquarters and development center), Gifhorn, Mannweiler-Cölln , Remscheid , Rockenhausen , Kirchheim unter Teck (Germany), Birmingham (Great Britain), Swiebodzin and Skarbimierz (Poland), Saragossa (Spain)
- Asia: Shanghai (China), Yokohama (Japan), Pune (India)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Keiper.com: Facts and Figures ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Johnson Controls is examining spin-off from automotive division. car-it.com, June 11, 2015.
- ↑ Johnson Controls announces the name of the new automotive company: Adient / New name is the first step on the way to an independent brand . In: presseportal.de . ( presseportal.de [accessed June 28, 2017]).
- ↑ Handelsblatt: Auto supplier Keiper goes to Johnson Controls , December 30, 2010
- ↑ Car seats: Prevent secures Keiper's South American deal with Willkie , JUVE Nachrichten, January 5, 2015
- ↑ Bloomberg: Company Overview of Keiper Recaro Group, Business in South America (English)
