Own injection moulding company

SPECK Pumpen acquire K-Form.

K-Form in Hauzenberg – a long-standing supplier of plastic pump casings and plastic components – now belongs to SPECK Pumpen. Hermann Speck already fixed the acquisition last year and is pleased to enhance the flexibility of SPECK Pumpen. In view of the current situation in particular, “Made in Germany“ is becoming more and more important once again. Flexibility and delivery reliability are our recognised strengths, which we further consolidate with this step. Having our own production site in Germany guarantees our reliability to deliver even in turbulent times.

The acquisition of the plastic injection moulding company is the logical consequence of this: Approximately 95 % of all the parts manufactured at K-Form have been commissioned by SPECK Pumpen in recent years. That is why they are well aware of our quality requirements and the special features of the pool technology, having been entrusted with our plastic injection moulds and tools for a long time already.

Erwin Schneider, the previous managing director of K-Form, will continue to lead the company’s fate. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, as the saying goes, and for the time being, there will be no change to the smooth way of working together – except for the certainty that in the area of pump casings, which is crucial to our production, we will no longer depend on a supplier but be directly within our immediate sphere of influence!

K-Form was founded in 1998 by the Kauerauf family. SPECK Pumpen has been co-operating with the injection moulding company since its foundation. In Hauzenberg, 16 employees work in three-shift-operation on ten injection moulding machines with a clamping force between 60 and 1,200 tons. They produce plastic articles with weights from 135 gramms to over 5.5 kilograms from a wide variety of plastic granulates.

Major investments in the machine park, for instance another injection moulding machine with a clamping force of 500 tons, are planned for later in the year to increase production capacity and efficiency. Optimisation with regard to energy consumption and CO2 savings are planned for the next few years, and so is the use of alternative materials based on plant materials instead of crude oil to protect the environment and conserve our natural resources..