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The company Krauss Maffei developed 1931 from a union of the two Bavarian companies Maffei (gegr. 1838) and Krauss & CO. (gegr. 1860 by George Krauss), both Munich. Both already before design different belonged to the prominent German offerers of locomotives; Maffei built also different vehicles with Dampfantrieb. The principal firm lies today in Munich alloh. Affiliation to the Buderus company (K.F.Flick company) in Wetzlar. Since 1957 injection moulding machines are built. In the year 1964 the company Eckert & Ziegler GmbH, is transferred white castle. The plastics machine manufacturing of the Krauss Maffei AG has the legal form of an independent GmbH since 1986. To 1 January 1998 this range the man man plastic was assigned to Machinery GmbH, Munich.

The Krauss Maffei plastics engineering demonstrates a greatest possible customer proximity in all relevant regions of the earth by a decentralized selling and service net. Maintenance, spare parts supply, installation and training courses locally are logical consequences of the service concept `regional management'.

By the structure of a further production location in Treuchtlingen was considered to the progressive modularity in building groups. The Krauss Maffei plastics engineering offers thus a very broad product range, from the standard machine up to the complete plant, to your customers for all important plastic procedures.

The world-wide activities lead igen foreign portion to a 72%, whereby over 30% of the conversion in the European Union commercial area are obtained. The non-European emphasis lies in north and South America and Asia Pacific. The Krauss Maffei plastics engineering, without the foreign selling and service organizations, employs 2,022 coworkers, with a gross income of 367 millions EUR (financial year 2002).

Already into the 1930er years chaining and armoured vehicles were manufactured. In the Second World War production was changed over completely to arms production, in particular building of tanks.

After the war occasional penalty were produced and developed a mechanical engineering section with emphasis in the plastic injection moulding technology. With the rearmament the product range military technology was re-activated. 1963 received Krauss Maffei the addition for the tank series leopard (replaced starting from 1972 by the leopard 2); 1976 went the armored AAA vehicle Gepard to 10-year old development time into production.

Into the 1970er-Jahren Krauss Maffei was involved also in the development of the Transrapid suspension railway.

The mechanical engineering section within the plastic range 1986 separated into the Krauss Maffei plastics engineering GmbH, which took over 2000 the trademark laws at the old trade mark. In the meantime the Krauss Maffei plastics engineering GmbH belongs to MPM (man man plastic Machinery GmbH)

1999 fused Krauss Maffei with the man man DEMAG AG to man man the DEMAG Krauss Maffei AG. The military engineering range was united in a joint venture with the armaments company way man from Kassel to the Krauss Maffei way man.

The man man DEMAG Krauss Maffei AG was sold of vodafone to the Siemens AG; it belongs now to the Atecs man man AG, to get thingthing getting thing of Siemens.

Co-operation with way man and Krauss Maffei already existed decades before the fusion of the military engineering ranges in the year 1999. Way man had supplied the weapon towers among other things for many Krauss Maffei tanks. To the "tank family" of the company belong beside the battle tanks also combat engineering vehicle, air defense, artillery and the reconnaissance and transportation tank. Also today like at present leopard is accomplished the I the export in the form of production licenses or Koproduktionen under participation of the national industry.