Krups is a German

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manufacturer. It is part of the

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. It is named after its founder, Robert Krups. Wednesday, 02 December 2020 The company produces a large variety of household appliances such as

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s, waffle makers, egg cookers, hand mixers,

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s, etc. Wednesday, 02 December 2020

History

180px, Krups weighing scales (Made in Ireland). The company began in 1846 manufacturing precision

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and mainly industrial balances, in Wald, now a district of

Solingen Solingen (; li, Solich) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located some 25 km east of Düsseldorf along the northern edge of the region called Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr area, and, with a 2009 population of 161,366, ...

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabi ...

. This was the company's principal product for the next 110 years. In 1951, following the 1950s postwar reconstruction and economic boom in Germany, Krups moved into the lucrative consumer appliance arena. The highly popular ''3Mix'' (German, ''Drei-Mix'') mixing machine was released in 1959 and soon became a fixture in nearly every second West German household, followed in 1961 by the ONKO coffee machine, available as the ''F468'' until 2014. In 1965, the company launched its first slicer, a highly popular product in Germany where

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(''wurst'') and

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are consumed as staples. In 1979 the Krups Type 223 ''Coffina Super'' coffee grinder was used as a

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in the film ''

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'' as part of the Nostromo spacecraft, and also in ''

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'' as 'Mr. Fusion'. In 1983 the first Krups coffee machines were released. By 1990, the firm employed 3,000 people in four German factories, as well as one in

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, Ireland, with annual revenue of DM541 million. Coffee machines were the most popular product, constituting 40 percent of sales in Germany and 30 percent in the United States. The following year Krups undertook a joint venture with

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to produce the ''

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'' machine. In 1999 the Krups Irish factory in

, formerly employing 800 people, closed. Two years later, following bankruptcy, Krups joined

, which subsequently reoriented Krups as a premium brand and employed designer Konstantin Grcic. Sunday, 22 December 2019

References

Bibliography

* Kevin N. Otto, Kristin L. Wood. ''Product Design''. Pearson Education India. 978817758821. pp281 * Robert Krups, North America 1986. ''Krups / 10 years in America: Quality... by design, 86/87''. 32 pages/.

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Official website
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