140 years of KHS

摘要

KHS, internationally active manufacturer of filling and packaging systems for the beverage, food, and non-food industries, celebrates its 140th anniversary this year.rnThe origins of the company date back to the year 1868, when Louis Holstein and Carl Kappert established Holstein & Kappert in Dortmund. Two other companies that were to have a decisive influence on today's KHS were also founded in the 19th century. In 1878, Lorenz Adalbert Enzinger brought the firm L A Enzinger into being, that like the Seitz-Werke founded by Theobald Friedrich Seitz and Georg Heinrich Seitz, initially focused on the production of filters. The first bundling of core competency came about in 1982.rnSeitz and Enzinger, together with the machine engineering company, Noll, merged to form Seitz Enzinger Noll, with headquarters in Bad Kreuznach. The arguably most decisive step in the history of the company was taken in 1993 when Holstein & Kappert and Seitz Enzinger Noll merged to form KHS.