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1970 Merger of KUKA and IWK |
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Two firms in the Quandt group, Keller & Knappich GmbH and Industrie-Werke Karlsruhe AG, merge to become Industrie-Werke Karlsruhe Augsburg Aktiengesellschaft, or IWKA AG for short. KUKA is contributing its market leadership in municipal vehicle construction and is one of the leading developers and producers of welding machines. The main points of contact with the former IWK are in defense technology.
On the basis of the existing skills and capacities, three divisions are formed in Augsburg: environmental technology, welding technology and defense technology. The new IWKA AG will also be involved in the areas of packaging machinery, textiles technology, control technology, forming, and machine tools.
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