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    TKM Group

    The Company

    TKM in Numbers

    12 Locations of TKM
    12
    Locations
    750 employees worldwide
    750
    Employees
    TKM - Excellent quality
    Excellent
    Quality

    TKM. The Knife Manufacturers.

    There is more to us than being "the knife manufacturers".

    For more than 100 years, the TKM Group as a business, stands for quality and sustainability in products and services.

    TKM is future-oriented - creative - responsible

    As the world market leader, it is our ambition to develop highly efficient tools and solutions with innovative ideas and advanced technology, all while setting sustainable trends.

    The satisfaction of our customers, from the craftsman's workshop to the global industrial company, has always been and still is the focus of our activities.

    We guarantee optimal customer proximity and competent support through our worldwide network of our own sales, service and production companies as well as through the high qualification and continuous training of our employees.

    We do everything to find the best solution for you.

    TKM - The Knife Manufacturers.

    TKM is part of the Groz-Beckert Group, a global market leader in the development, manufacture and sale of process-critical textile precision tools, industrial cutting solutions and a solution provider for textile construction, as well as reinforcement solutions made from high-performance fibers for composite materials.

    Management

    Thomas Klumpen, CEO TKM Gruppe

    Chairman of the Management Board / CEO

    Dr. THOMAS KLUMPEN

    Dr. Thomas Klumpen was born on November 29th, 1963, in the city of Mönchengladbach (Germany). After his studies of engineering and his PhD at the RWTH Aachen, he started his career in 1994 at the Kleinewefers Textilmaschinen GmbH. 1996 he was promoted to the Director of Operations and Logistics. In 2000 Thomas Klumpen joined the TKM Group as the COO of TKM Austria Gmbh. Since 2002, he is the COO of the TKM Group.

    Thomas Klumpen is married and has a son.

    TKM - Arised from a trading house

    • 1908

      Since 1908, Family Klingelnberg sells Industrial knives & Saws

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    • 1991

      The family Klingelnberg separates the industrial knives sector from mechanical engineering

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    • 1993

      Thomas Meyer joins the industrial knife company as managing director. Since then he leads the..

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    • 2012

      Family Meyer takes over the remaining company shares

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    • 2014

      Thomas Meyer contributes his entire capital, including the company group, in two foundations..

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