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The history of the KVT Solutioneering Group began over 80 years ago with the foundation of a small lightweight construction company in Switzerland. The company can today look back on a successful history, and forward to a promising future for which KVT is well positioned with its innovative fastening and sealing technology products and solutions as well as its worldwide presence.

Since 1927, Dr. Ing. Max Koenig offered engineering services in Zurich for the area of lightweight construction. The company, named after its founder, focused at custom-made sheet metal works and represents the roots of today’s KVT Solutioneering Group.
In 1950, the portfolio of the company was extended to include blind rivets and fastening elements. At the end of the year, the company moved into its new headquarters in Dietikon.
In 1963 the company changed its name into ‘Dr. Ing. Koenig AG’.
In 1970, as Koenig Verbindungstechnik AG, the company steps in the sealing business. From 1974, the KOENIG-expander®, which is used in a wide range of hydraulic and pneumatic systems, was and still is developed and produced in Dietikon.
In 1973, a second location of the Dr. Ing. Koenig AG was founded in Illerrieden, Germany. The 100% subsidiary was called Koenig Verbindungstechnik GmbH.
In 1985, Dr. Ing. Koenig AG became ‚Koenig Verbindungstechnik AG‘ (KVT).
In 1988, Debrunner-Koenig Holding (DKH) was founded as member of the Klöckner Group.
In 1992, the Austrian company mbb was acquired and henceforth KVT was represented in Asten/ Linz.

In 2000, KVT expanded the international presence with its location in Gdañsk, Poland.
From 2005, the Czech market was served by the KVT branch office in Brno.
In 2007 and 2008, KVT acquired the two US companies Sherex Industries and Farmington Engineering and established KVT Koenig, LLC, the first non-European branch. From that moment, the American market was served by KVT directly and in situ.
In 2008, as the result of a leveraged buy-out Koenig Verbindungstechnik parted company with Debrunner-Koenig Holding AG.
In 2010, KVT expanded its international presence to Ljubljana, Slovenia; Bratislava, Slovakia and Budapest, Hungary. KVT-Koenig LLC relocated from Madison, CT to North Haven, CT. In the same year the successful KVT branches wordwide joined forces as members of the even stronger ‘KVT Solutioneering Group’.
In 2011, the KVT Solutioneering Group further followed its strategy of continuous expansion into attractive markets and regions by founding national organisations in Bucharest, Rumania; South America (Brazil) and Asia (China).