2011: KHS GmbH becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Salzgitter Klöckner-Werke GmbH
Key figures
In 2012, the KHS Group employs a workforce of 4,178 employees worldwide. Annual sales totaled 1008 million euros in 2012. Sales figures in recent years:
2008: 986 million euros
2009: 727 million euros
2010: 918 million euros
2011: 917 million euros
2012: 980 million euros
Sales figures for 2012 by region:
37.7% Europe
28.1% Americas
20.1% CIS/Asia Pacific
14.0% Middle East/Africa
Sites
Headquarters of KHS GmbH is Dortmund, Germany, which is also the site of one of the company's five German production facilities. Other German production sites are located in Bad Kreuznach, Hamburg, Kleve, and Worms. The product centers for washing and pasteurizing technology and labeling and inspection technology are based in Dortmund. The Bad Kreuznach plant specializes in the following areas of beverage filling engineering including aseptic technology: Filtration, beverage blending technology, high-gravity brewing systems, flash pasteurizing and deaerating systems, and rinsing, filling, caps and lid feeding, and sealing technologies for bottles and cans. The product center for kegging technology is also located here. At its site in Kleve, KHS manufactures packaging equipment with the focus on the latest in final packaging. The activities of KHS' plant in Worms are centered on packing and unpacking systems and palletizing equipment. KHS Corpoplast and KHS Plasmax in Hamburg are focused on stretch blow molding and barrier technologies and the development of new types of plastic bottle. KHS GmbH's production facilities outside Germany are situated in Brazil, the United States, Mexico, India, and China. The company also has branches in 83 countries around the globe. KHS GmbH's internal sales organization, sales offices, and subsidiaries handle sales for all products manufactured at each of the production sites.
Areas of expertise
Turnkey lines
The turnkey lines manufactured by KHS GmbH offer systems for every branch of industry, every type of container, and every process in the production of beverages. The container types offered include glass and PET bottles, cans, and kegs. Each KHS line comprises the individual machines required to carry out all beverage production processes ranging from PET bottle production, filling, labeling, packing, and palletizing up to and including inspection and complete sanitizing.
Processing systems
Another core area of KHS GmbH involves processing systems for simplifying and designing complex beverage production processes more efficiently. The various processes pertain to sanitizing systems, beverage blending systems, and the design and configuration of production lines.
