Leonhard Kurz
| Leonhard Kurz Foundation & Co. KG
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| legal form | Limited partnership |
| founding | 1899 |
| Seat | Fuerth |
| management | Walter Kurz, Peter Kurz |
| Number of employees | 5492 (2018) |
| sales | 851.1 million euros (2018) |
| Branch | Embossing foils, embossing machines and embossing tools |
| Website | www.kurz.de |
| As of January 31, 2017 | |
The Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG is the parent company of a group of companies that has specialized in the manufacture of hot stamping foils and machines for hot stamping. The headquarters of the group is Fürth .
history
In 1899 Leonhard Kurz founded a company for the production of gold leaf . In 1931 his successor Konrad Kurz patented a vacuum-deposited real gold stamping foil. Areas of application were bookbinding and writing on pencils , among other things . In the 1950s, aluminum-coated foils were produced for hot stamping technology, and from the 1960s onwards, the company entered mechanical engineering . In the 1970s, the first foreign sales companies were founded and a production facility was set up in the USA . Further steps were the embossing of magnetic strips (e.g. on the back of flight tickets or savings books ) and of holographic elements such as kinegrams .
Production sites (selection)
- Fürth (Leonhard Kurz Foundation & Co. KG)
- Fürth (PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG)
- Sulzbach Rosenberg (Leonhard Kurz Foundation & Co. KG)
- Rudersberg (Baier GmbH & Co. KG)
- Döbeln (Kurz Typofol GmbH)
- Göppingen (Hinderer + Mühlich GmbH & Co. KG)
- Charlotte, North Carolina , USA
- Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
- Hefei , People's Republic of China