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History
  The KREYENBORG group has developed from a small trading company to a global market leader. How this progress took place is shown in the milestones of the KREYENBORG history:

1953 Formation as "Joachim Kreyenborg & Co." Trading with tubular earthing bus for lightning conductors.
1958 Commencement of the construction and production of mixers and flour mills for agricultural needs.
1966 Establishment in the plastic industry as supplier of mixers.
1967 Delivery of the first KREYENBORG melt filter. In the following years, especially the two screen bearing piston screen changers of the K-SWE-type prevail as the standard filtration system in extrusion.
1977
An american chemical company concludes a major order, implying 63 screen changers of the K-SWE-160 type. Many machines of this series are still in use.
1989 Construction of the first screen changer with backflush function. Yet another innovation in the field of melt filtration.
1994 The BKG Bruckmann & Kreyenborg Granuliertechnik GmbH, founded by Theodor Bruckmann and Jan-Udo Kreyenborg, delivers the first underwater pelletizers.
1995 Incoroperation of the 1978 founded BSG Bruckmann Steuerungstechnik GmbH.
1997 Formation of Kreyenborg Industries as branch office in the USA.
2001 KREYENBORG supplies the first melt pumps out of inhouse-production.
2003 BKG establishes the PET Inline-Cristallisation CrystallCut®.
2004 The especially efficient infrared drums expand the KREYENBORG delivery range.
2005 The second international branch office is opened in Shanghai.
2008 The newly founded Kreyenborg Plant Technology GmbH & Co. KG becomes the fourth member of the group.

Kreyenborg founders

Company's founders
Joachim und Udo Kreyenborg

Kreyenborg the 60s
The 60s

 

Kreyenborg the 70s

The 70s: Mixers are loaded

 

backflush screen changers

One of the first backflush screen changers