Group of independent Klinger companies
Klinger is one of the leading suppliers of industrial sealing and fluid control products worldwide. With 35 operating companies throughout the world Klinger manufactures, sells and provides services to virtually all industries where fluids or gases have to be safely contained in pipelines and vessels such as petrochemical and chemical, paper, mining, steel, water and food. Klinger employs around 2.000 people worldwide with a global turnover of €400 million.
Klinger’s operating philosophy is built on product innovation and problem solving along with unsurpassed technical support and dedication to customer service.
The group of independent Klinger companies has been a privately owned business since 1886 and is still controlled by the Klinger family.
The founder Richard Klinger was just 26 years old when he opened his own workshop in Vienna. Interested in the problems associated with glass tube indicators on steam engines, he designed a water level gauge constructed on the reflection principle. He was awarded a patent for his invention in 1890 and opened the first Klinger factory in Gumpoldskirchen, Austria, which over the years has been extended and still is one of Klinger’s largest production site.
Problems with sealing his new invention were a major factor for Richard Klinger and he was forced to look for a solution. He created the revolutionary calendered compressed fibre gasket material using a mixture of rubber and fibres.
Still today Klinger is the largest manufacturer of this type of gasket material producing it with the latest process technology in plants in Austria, Australia, Brazil, India, South Africa and United States.
KLINGER SCHÖNEBERG GmbH
Januar 2009
Michael J. Wüllerich was appointed as the new Chief Representative Asia at KLINGER SCHÖNEBERG GmbH, effective January 1, 2009. After more than 16 years of successful sales work, he has now taken up the new challange of building and growing the sales operations of KLINGER SCHÖNEBERG GmbH in Asia. To enable this, Michael Wüllerich will be based and reside in Asia. His duties at KLINGER SCHÖNEBERG GmbH will be discharged by Manging Director Manfred Goßmann and his team Thomas Döring (Manager Sales Office) and Andreas Becker (Manager External Sales).
September 2006
Opening of KLINGER SCHÖNEBERG GmbH’s representative office in Shanghai,
China.
KLINGER SCHÖNEBERG GmbH thus now also has a presence in China as a
German manufacturer of high quality ball valves for chemicals applications and
is available on the spot with its customary high level of service as a contact
for its customers.
Januar 2006
Foundation of KLINGER SCHÖNEBERG GmbH with headquarters at Graben Neudorf via
the merger of TEG SCHÖNEBERG GmbH with KLINGER GmbH’s industrial valve division,
under the management of Manfred Gossmann and Michael Wüllerich.
The valve
stores at Idstein is now physically concentrated at Graben Neudorf, in a newly
constructed central warehouse, while the marketing team remains at its
traditional Idstein location. The joint product portfolio continues the
consistent move toward the wishes and requirements of customers for a
comprehensive range of services under the philosophy "Connect with
Quality”.
For customers, the extended range of facilities results in an
outstanding service spectrum ranging from expert consultation to highly
developed series products and on to specific customer solutions.
2002
In the course of succession regulations, TEG SCHÖNEBERG GmbH is taken over by
KLINGER GmbH, and thus becomes a member of the worldwide Klinger Group.
TEG
SCHÖNEBERG GmbH remains an independent company within the Klinger Group, which
ensures customer requirements in close co operation with KLINGER GmbH in
Idstein.
2001
Company merger between TEG mbH and Schöneberg OHG, creating the TEG Schoeneberg
GmbH & Co. KG, with its directors Gerd Kraft and Peter Schöneberg. Peter
Schöneberg, a businessman of many years experience with particularly strong
market and customer expertise, boosts the area of direct sales.
With the
foundation of TEG Schoeneberg GmbH, the business year is consistently used to
complete the transformation of the company from a pure developer into an
innovative manufacturer. Now equipped with three core skills in the fields of
development, manufacturing and sales, Klinger Schoeneberg GmbH is a supplier
which is consistently and specifically dedicated to the needs of its
customers.
Positioning of the innovative products under the "INTEC” label as
a supplier of ball valve system technology from a single source.
1993 - 1999
Occupation of the newly constructed building, comprising offices and a production hall. The move into the new building extends the previous value addition chain. The prototypes of innovative industrial valves developed and manufactured by the designers can now be systematically turned into products ready for series production with the aid of the latest testing facilities.
First attendance at the ACHEMA specialist international exhibition on the exhibition stand of KSB. The range of services enjoys a very positive response from customers, and TEG mbH consequently strengthens the area of mechanical production, and establishes series assembly facilities.
The market rewards the strategy of the company of offering development and detailed design, tested prototypes to series readiness and manufacturing feasibility studies incl. cost analysis all from a single source.
1993
Gerd Kraft founds the "Technische Entwicklungsgesellschaft”, the TEG mbH, as a consulting company for the development of valves. The company founder, a developer of industrial valves with many years of experience, especially in the field of ball valves for industrial applications, makes do in the early years of the company with few but very efficient personnel resources.
