Kober & Moll
| Kober & Moll GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1886 |
| Seat | Pfalzgrafenweiler , Germany |
| management | Hartmut Moll, Jennifer Moll |
| Branch | Plastics processing |
| Website | www.kober-moll.com |
The Kober & Moll GmbH in Pfalzgrafenweiler in the district of Freudenstadt is a paddle factory and plastics processing operation.
Kober
The company was originally in 1886 as a wheelwright by Matthew Kober in Wittendorf founded. His son Matthäus Kober junior learned to be a wagon maker in Switzerland and after his return also began to make wooden skis and then toboggan sleds . Athletes then asked him to make paddles out of wood, so that he began series production in 1928. This makes the company the oldest paddle factory in the world. In 1952 the daughter Emma Kober married the employee Rudolf Moll, and in 1961 the couple took over the family business. For the 1972 Summer Games , Kober developed a canoe slaloma paddle with rounded edges. The subsequent increase in orders leads to production being concentrated entirely on the paddles.
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The son Hartmut Moll (* 1958) reinforced the paddle in 1974 with fiberglass and Kevlar and in 1977 developed the first paddle made entirely of plastic. After receiving his master craftsman's certificate in 1984, he founded his own company Moll in 1985, in which he manufactured plastic paddles (made of polyurethane, among other things ) and continued to work in his father's company at the same time. Moll was the first to use Advanced Thermoplast Technology (ATT) made of polypropylene (PP) and nylon .
Kober & Moll
In 1991, after an accident, Rudolf Moll handed the company over to Hartmut Moll, who merged the two companies to form Kober & Moll the following year. The product range was based on paddles made of rigid foam and using RIM ( Reaction Injection Molding ). While higher-quality paddles for professional use are marketed under the Kober brand, cheaper paddles for popular sports are offered under the Moll brand.
Since 1999 Kober & Moll has also been the general agency for Perception Kayaks in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Other technical molded parts made of polyurethane and KOMO workplace mats are also produced with around 20 employees.