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In 1897 Karl Kömmerling Pirmasens in running a business founded a company on footwear material. After World War II, the use of rubber in the production of adhesives, KÖMMERLİNG's footwear production has been the pioneer to create a revolution.
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in 1957, the first year to produce PVC-made blinds give leadership in this area to Kömmerling . After 10 years, so the first time in 1967 has started..
Today KÖMMERLİNG is Europe's leading manufacturer of PVC door and window, and the most extensive and long experience on the world i
s held by Kömmerling. Pirmasesns's main factory is located outside the 5 separate manufacturing facilities. These are France, Italy, Spain, USA, and China.
The importance of quality is too large for KÖMMERLİNG. PVC profile production quality management, and TÜV Cert BSI audit institutions in the certificate has been taken.KÖMMERLİNG that has been registered in their respective fields 'Thermal Glass and Windows' Control lab is the only manufacturer. This laboratory according to DIN EN 45001 standards by the German accreditation company is registered Prüwesen GmbH. This is a very important detail that represents warranty in the sector.
KÖMMERLİNG in 5 production plants in the world except for Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Denmark, Greece, Britain, Italy, Croatia, Lithuania, near the east, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, South America, Egypt , Singapore, Turkey, Ukraine and the United States' various sister organizations, sales offices in 20 countries and has a liaison office |
History :
| 1897 |
Company founded as a trading organisation by Karl Kömmerling in Pirmasens, Germany |
| 1902 |
Beginning of adhesives manufacturing |
| 1949 |
Initial manufacturing of synthetic rubber |
| 1952 |
Beginning of plastics production |
| 1954 |
Company goes international with production facilities in France, Brazil and in other countries |
| 1957 |
* Profile extrusion begins with the manufacturing of plastic roller shutters
* Founding of a manufacturing plant in Austria
* Development and production of sealants for use in the construction industry and in insulating window panes
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| 1967 |
Beginning of the manufacture of plastic window profile extrusions under the brand-names Combidur and Pirmat as well as the manufacture of KÖMADUR plastic sheets
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| 1975 |
Development of KÖMABORD balcony profiles made from PVC foam |
| 1976 |
Production of KÖMACEL integral skin foam sheets made of rigid PVC begins
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| 1979 |
Development of the co-extrusion technique for Combidur AV aluminium composite window profiles |
| 1986 |
Beginning of window profile extrusion in France |
| 1989 |
* Beginning of window profile extrusion in Italy
* New profile generation realised: Eurodur |
| 1992 |
Beginning of window profile production in Spain |
| 1995 |
Beginning of window profile production in China |
| 1996 |
Beginning of PVC-sheets extrusion in the USA |
| 2000 |
Merger with the HT TROPLAST AG companyAG |
| 2003 |
The European market leaders for plastic profiles (KÖMMERLING, KBE, Trocal and Knipping) have founded a joint company |
| 2004 |
KÖMMERLING launches its first lead-free stabiliser, greenline |
| 2006 |
profine Group UK move to new £6m UK distribution site |
| 2007 |
profine Group UK launch its new recycling initiative recycline, in association with Penfold Plastics |
For more than a century Kömmerling has invested in research and innovation, improving quality of life to the benefit of each and every one of us. Controlled technology has enabled the brand to offer products of an exceptional quality particularly in terms of PVC-u profiles for windows. Today, our position as one of the leading PVC-u suppliers requires us to go even further to anticipate the inherent responsibilities of an industry that is faced with the challenge of preserving a balanced and harmonious environment.
The PVC-u industry made a voluntary commitment to the E U Environment Commission to eliminate the use of lead stabilisers from PVC-u profiles by 2010. This was welcomed as the "Vinyl 2010" initiative and profine undertook this change in 2003 / 2004 making the move to calcium-zinc and completely eliminating lead from the extrusion process. These changes were undertaken at no cost to our clients and became "greenline" the most environmentally friendly profile available. In addition to this proactive environment initiative we also through Penfold Plastics seek to collect fabricator off cuts and recycle this material into the extrusion system.
greenLine is a concept that has been perfected to preserve the natural resources by working in three convergent directions:
• Ensuring the ongoing improvement of the window system’s performance providing thermal insulation which reduces on energy consumption and improves sound insulation.
• Recycling the basic raw materials (PVC-u, glass and steel) by reusing them in the production cycle –thus improving efficiency by using less raw materials and energy.
• Optimising the use of raw material components; the end product is more refined which ensures longevity and increases the life-span of the PVC profiles.
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