Krauss-Maffei
KraussMaffei is a German manufacturing company. It is a manufacturer of injection molding machines, machines for plastics extrusion technology, and reaction process machinery. It was acquired by ChemChina in 2016.
Key facts
- Company.name
- KraussMaffei
- Company.logo
- Krauss-Maffei logo.svg
- Company.type
- Subsidiary
- Company.founder
- Joseph Anton von Maffei
- Company.hq_location
- Parsdorf, Germany
- Company.products
- Machinery and systems for producing and processing plastics and rubber
- Company.industry
- Chemical
- Company.num_employees
- 4,700
- Company.parent
- Sinochem
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KraussMaffei is a German manufacturing company. It is a manufacturer of injection molding machines, machines for plastics extrusion technology, and reaction process machinery. It was acquired by ChemChina in 2016.
== History == thumb|right|Historical KraussMaffei company building with inscription KraussMaffei was formed in 1931 from a merger of the two Munich firms of Maffei (founded 1838) and Krauss & Co. (founded 1860). Both belonged to the leading German makers of locomotives of various types. Maffei also built other steam-operated vehicles and later manufactured vehicles with combustion engines, including locomotives, trolleybuses, and buses through the 1950s. The headquarters of the firm remained in Munich.