Motivated, well trained KIWO employees, working in modern laboratories with the most modern equipment are constantly developing new products, concepts and solutions.
Product care – including the systematic improvement of products – is of the utmost importance at KIWO. Dialog with our customers across the globe, who offer experience with thousands of application techniques, is one of the keys to our success. Their input becomes an important ingredient in product development.
With this strategy, as mid-sized company, KIWO continues to be a successful supplier worldwide for screenprinters, textile printiners and respected as a specialist in the adhesives industry.
KIWO products are produced with trustable quality and consistency. Our tolerances are well defined and tightly controlled. These high quality standards are held for all of KIWO's products across the board.
Our quality management system is DIN EN ISO 9001 certified, organized along every step, from the receiving and testing of raw materials, through production and delivery, so that KIWO products arrive on-time and ready for use at the customer.
KIWO employees actively seek out, define and realize product advancements, which in turn benefit our customers.
Application technology – the interface between us and our customers
New materials, new formulations, new products, new techniques, new solutions: in communication with our customers and working closely with KIWO's developers and marketers, KIWO's application technicians test new products until they are ready for the market. Current products are improved upon and customer problems are competently solved.
New applications are found and new chances are born.
KIWO supports our customers in becoming more productive and competitve, with KIWO application technicians playing a leading role.
With speed and flexibility, as only possible in a mid-sized, internationally oriented company, KIWO offers qualified applications support from locations around the world.
For decades, KIWO products and services have been setting the standards throughout the industry.
KIWO anticipates trends and developments, proactively developing creatve product and service solutions for improved productivity and profitability for our customers.
In all aspects of our business, KIWO employees are actively engaged in supporting our customers.
For customers around the globe, KIWO is a reliable partner. This
reliability results in trust. And trust is the basis for a strong and successful partnership.
With this principle in mind, KIWO has earned a strong market position in nearly all of our business segments.
Well over 100,000 customers, spanning every continent, use our products and service for their success: chemical systems and technological systems for screenprinting, textile printing and adhesives in wide ranging applications.
Assured quality and market oriented business is one KIWO's strengths. A quality built upon our ISO 90001 recognized quality management system.
From a small enterprise to a mid-sized company – a timeline of our growth
The early years
In the second half of the 19th century, Germany developed from an agricultural into an industrial state.
In 1893, both Kissel + Wolf, and the lacquer manufacturer Albert Rose were founded.
Growth
Up through the 1930's, Kissel + Wolf, then located in Mannheim, developed into one of the most important wholesalers of glues.
Destruction
During World War II, the business in Mannheim was completely destroyed.
A new beginning
In 1956, the business was acquired by theEisenbeiss family. With only a handful of employees, a production facility was built in the town of Wiesloch, near Heidelberg, with the production of adhesives comprising the main business.
New business prospectives
Following the business initiatives of Richard F. Eisenbeiss, new areas of growth in the production of chemical products for the screenprinting and textile printing industries were developed. High quality products such as AZOCOL emulsions and the PREGAN und PREGASOL lines soon became top sellers around the world.
In 1963 Albert Rose Chemie was acquired. The activities as textile printing supplier were strengthened.
Expansion
The systematic growth in applications and customer education provided a further impulse towards product development.
KIWO brought numerous innovations to the market and influenced the entire industry. In doing so, KIWO became a worldwide leader in chemical systems for screenprinting.
KIWO oriented itself to fulfill the demands of the market using the synergy of three branches of industry: screenprinting, textile printing and adhesives.
It followed, that in the past few decades, KIWO added screenprinting technology to complement our screenprinting chemistry. A milestone in the technological advancement was the KIWOMAT automated coating machine. It was the right machine at the right time, and continues to be recognized in the market.
Today KIWO offers complete solutions in screenprinting chemistry and technology.
These complement one another in providing our customers with optimal results. Using these products, KIWO customers can optimze their workflow resulting in a more productive screenprinting operation.
During the 1990's, our technical support and service was strengthend and further developed for the international market.
KIWO has recognized the importance of environmental protection and creating sustainable business for screenprinting. With our CLEANLINE products and service, KIWO also became a compentent problem solver in this side of the business.
The possibilities of combining digital technology with screenprinting was also quickly grasped by KIWO. With the KIWO ScreenSetter, a digital direct exposure sytem, KIWO is leading the technological advancement and creates new growth opportunities for screenprinters.
Today
KIWO continues to offer products of the highest quality.
With a number of branches and production facilities, along with highly competent business partners, KIWO is currently active in over 110 countries.
And we are prepared to continue offering products of the highest quality into the future.