Krauss-Maffei
Sign in to saveKraussMaffei 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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- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 1838
- Location
- Vrútky, Slovakia
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.455000.4
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- enterprise
- Country
- Germany
- Founded by
- Joseph Anton von Maffei
- Industry
- weapons industry
- Legal form
- Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
- Official website
- www.kraussmaffeigroup.com
- Image
- Kraus-Maffei-Allach.jpg
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- replaces
- Maffei
- inception
- 1931-00-00
- Commons category
- Krauss-Maffei
- location of formation
- Munich
- IPv6 routing prefix
- 2003:5e:a058::/48
- product or material produced
- engine
- has works in the collection
- Railway Museum of Catalonia
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Encyclopedic overview
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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.
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