Wilka locking technology

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Wilka Locking Technology GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1865
Seat Velbert , Germany
management Robert Schlieper
Number of employees 300
sales over 30 million euros
Branch Locking technology
Website www.wilka.de
As of April 23, 2020

Wilka in Velbert
Wilka Polska in Leszno

The WILKA closing GmbH is a family of Pulp and paper based in Velbert in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The company was founded in 1865 under the name of the owner Wilhelm Karrenberg and initially included the manufacture of furniture locks. Over the decades, this has been expanded to include other locking technology products .

In 1990, what was later to become Wilhelm Karrenberg KG, today's Wilka lock technology GmbH, which employs around 300 people at the Velbert location. The annual turnover is over 30 million euros.

Wilka has several patents in the field of locking technology.

history

Wilhelm Karrenberg founded a company under his own name in 1865. Initially, the production facility consisted only of a forge for the production of furniture locks. In cooperation with his three sons Julius, August and Ernst Karrenberg, the company's product range was expanded to include locks for interior and exterior doors. Some of these locks are exhibited today in the German Castle and Fittings Museum in Velbert. From 1894 Wilhelm Karrenberg exported the first locks. In 1901 the company's first entry in the commercial register was made as an open trading company (oHG). In 1902 the company received a medal “for good performance in door locks of all kinds” on the occasion of an industrial exhibition.

Due to increased demands on security in the area of ​​locking technology, simple door locks that can be operated directly with a tumble key have been replaced by a combination of lock and associated lock cylinder . Nowadays, the original tumbler locks are mainly used for the interior door area. The Wilhelm Karrenberg company started production of the first locking cylinders in 1923. For the first time it was produced under the Wilka trademark . The company was renamed "Wilhelm Karrenberg KG" (1928).

Production continued during the Second World War . From 1952 the development of the company's first profile cylinders was completed and production began. Wilka applied for several patents and was the first company to permanently manufacture a complete cylinder range with six locking pins. The key profile is protected by trademark under the name "WILKA".

From the 1960s, assembly lines were used in production and processes were automated. Another mainstay of the company from 1975 onwards was the production of tubular frame locks. In 1980 an IT system was installed.

In 1990 the shareholders of Wilhelm Karrenberg KG decided to rename the company again and founded Wilka lock technology GmbH.

A second plant was opened in 1993 on the site of the former forge owned by company founder Wilhelm Karrenberg.

The first certification according to DIN EN ISO 9001 took place in 1996.

In 1996 Wilka presented the first mechatronic locking cylinder.

In 2001, Wilka founded its first subsidiary abroad, Wilka Polska Sp.z oo in Leszno, Poland, and built its own factory in 2006. Since then, both production for the Eastern European markets and assembly work for the main plant in Velbert have been carried out there.

Wilka developed locking solutions for the escape door area as well as for safety requirements for personal protection and launched a new program for the tubular frame area in accordance with EN standards.

The company is still family-owned and is managed in the sixth generation by Robert Schlieper.

Wilka supports the sponsoring association of the German Lock and Fittings Museum in Velbert and the University Institute for Locking and Security Technology at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal .

Products

  • Castles
The product range includes locks for wood and tubular frames, furniture and box locks.
  • Escape door systems
Anti-panic locks, strike boxes with and without electric strike function, solutions for fully automated doors
  • Lock cylinder
Locking cylinders in conventional and reversible key areas as individual locks and locking systems. Special solutions such as B. Security cylinders, customer profiles and anti-panic and anti-amok cylinders.
  • electronics
Electronic access systems and controls with knob cylinders, motorized and anti-panic cylinders and access software

Web links

Commons : Wilka Locking Technology  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Federal Gazette : Annual financial statements for the financial year from 01/01/2018 to 12/31/2018
  2. a b c d Ulrich Morgenroth, German Lock and Fittings Museum Velbert: From lockmaker to key region . SCALA Verlag, City of Velbert, August 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813898-3-8 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 '52.8 "  N , 7 ° 2' 58.2"  E