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- established year : 1888
- Phone : 004974225110
- Fax : 00497422511200
- website : https://www.kern-liebers.com/en
- E-mail : info@kern-liebers.de
- Address : Dr.-Kurt-Steim-Strasse 35 ,78713 Schramberg
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About us :
Hugo Kern began producing tension springs for the watch industry in the Black Forest in 1888. In 1920 the company was taken over by his son, Hugo Ernst Kern, and traded as Hugo Kern KG. In 1936 Kurt Steim, the grandson of Hugo Kern, became his successor as managing director of the company. In 1946 the production of blanks, which consisted of stamped parts for textile machine construction ...
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About us :
Hugo Kern began producing tension springs for the watch industry in the Black Forest in 1888. In 1920 the company was taken over by his son, Hugo Ernst Kern, and traded as Hugo Kern KG. In 1936 Kurt Steim, the grandson of Hugo Kern, became his successor as managing director of the company. In 1946 the production of blanks, which consisted of stamped parts for textile machine construction and the textile industry, started. From the mid-1960s, return springs for automatic seat belts for automobiles were produced. In 1971 Hugo Kern KG merged with Platinenfabrik Liebers & Co., Ingolstadt, to form Hugo Kern and Liebers GmbH & Co, Kern-Liebers. 1972 the company moves to Schramberg-Sulgen. Wire springs are manufactured from 1973. In 1975, the first foreign manufacturing facility opens in Toledo, Ohio. In 2002 a majority stake in Kurt Meder GmbH Villingen-Schwenningen is taken over. In 2004 a majority stake in Bohnert GmbH Hardt is carried out, resulting in a majority stake in Thuringian Precision Feather Factory GmbH Ruhla. In the same year, Gebrüder Schmidt GmbH Wuppertal and Saxonia International BV with Saxonia Umformtechnik GmbH in Göppingen, Paul Leistner GmbH in Schwabach and other plants in the Czech Republic, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong and the USA are taken over. In 2005 the Schweizer GmbH & Co. KG Federtechnik in Reutlingen is bought.
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