KMA Umwelttechnik — The Company
Environmental protection that pays off – since 1958. Who we are, where we come from, and why we’re convinced that environmental technology has to pay off for your site.
Welcome to KMA
Clean air and efficient energy use are now core tasks for industry. When KMA started cleaning exhaust air and recovering heat, nobody was talking about sustainability yet. Since the 1970s, we’ve been developing solutions that make production sites cleaner and more efficient.
Since then, requirements have risen year after year: stricter limits, costlier energy. Many companies now want to take responsibility themselves. Environmental technology is therefore no longer a niche. It’s helping decide how industries will be able to produce in the future.
We’re guided by a simple conviction: environmental protection only takes hold in industry if it pays off. That means low operating costs and lasting performance. That’s why we build quality that lasts. A KMA system runs for around 25 years and has to meet tomorrow’s requirements too. That’s why we keep developing our technology toolkit further, together with partners from research and industry. Which processes end up being used is decided by your process.
We’re an owner-led family business with around 100 employees in Königswinter and Shanghai. From here, our technology goes out into the world: over 3,000 systems save emissions and energy every day, worldwide. Our own service team and a network of service partners are on hand wherever they’re needed. We rank among the international leaders in this demanding field of technology. Many leading companies across a range of industries rely on our technology. We’re proud of that.
We look forward to standing by your side too, with our experienced team and innovative solutions.
Stefan Kurtsiefer and Dr. Holger Wagner
What we stand for
Sustainability
Our processes, technical solutions and technologies conserve resources and make industrial processes more sustainable.
Environmental protection
With our solutions, we make a concrete contribution to reducing emissions and optimizing process conditions.
Technology
We turn our cross-industry expertise into practical planning. Application-oriented solutions are the foundation of our work — from technical support to turnkey, end-to-end solutions.
Partnership
Personal collaboration, reliability and a partnership-based approach are the foundation of everything we do.
HISTORY
Our history in pictures
Our company has been active in the industrial sector since 1958. As a second-generation family business, we combine decades of experience with a modern understanding of environmental technology, sustainability and collaborative partnership.
Today
Leading the way with greentech
Just before our 70th anniversary, around 100 employees in Königswinter and Shanghai are working toward a shared goal: turning environmental technology into a business case – with energy efficiency and emissions control as a green competitive edge for our customers.
2025
More technical innovations
The KMA toolkit keeps growing: ESP hexagonal filters, electrostatic precipitators combined with eRTO, and a wet scrubber module for the ULTRAVENT® M. Also new: high-performance heat recovery at the melting furnace – it puts waste heat to use that foundries have so far simply released unused.
2023
Development of the modular filter system with ZIMS ULTRAVENT® M
In the state-funded ZIMS project, the modular ULTRAVENT® M filter system takes shape. Filter stages combine like building blocks and can be expanded later – the system grows with the demands of the process, and various process modules are developed further for the modular system.
2022
Market launch of ULTRAVENT® III
The evolution of the proven ULTRAVENT® product line brings forth the UV III: higher separation efficiency, made-in-Germany original parts, and extras like Eco Plus as standard, easier maintenance, and a rugged design for foundry and die casting applications. With it, KMA sets the industry standard for exhaust air filtration in metal processing.
2020
A pioneer in megacasting
KMA supplies the exhaust air treatment system for the world’s first Megacasting site, which specialises in the die-casting of large body structures. Today, the technology is in use at 13 Megacasting sites worldwide. KMA is expanding its range of services for foundries: exhaust air, emissions and energy are considered as a holistic whole.
2017
Global player with over 3,000 filter systems
Over 3,000 systems installed: KMA has established itself as the world market leader for energy-efficient exhaust air filter systems in its target industries. Internationally, the name stands for quality, innovation and technical expertise – built up over nearly 60 years.
2012
Establishment of KMA Environmental Technology Co. Ltd.
Shanghai, China
Since 2012, a qualified sales team has been based in the heart of Shanghai to serve the Far Eastern market.
Depending on the project, components are manufactured locally and in Germany.
In this way, KMA ensures that the high quality standards of its main plant in Germany are maintained.
2007
Over 2,500 filter systems installed worldwide.
As early as 2007, more than 2,500 KMA filter systems had been installed worldwide – mainly in metal processing and food processing. Every system is designed for the customer's process: from standard modules to custom builds for demanding exhaust air streams.
1996
European FoodTec Award
The DLG honors KMA with the European FoodTec Award for forward-looking solutions in the food industry. The development was funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation – early proof that emissions control and economic efficiency go hand in hand.
1990
Clean air with minimal energy use
Since the early 1990s, KMA has consistently thought exhaust air filtration and energy together. Electrostatic precipitators with heat recovery cut energy demand by up to 80 percent compared to thermal oxidation. Environmental technology becomes a business case.
1973
Focus on environmental protection
With the shift to plant engineering, KMA recognizes early on where the industry is heading: air pollution control becomes a key issue. Experience in metalworking gives rise to our first in-house filter technology – and the decision to enter a market that doesn't even exist yet.
1958
Founding year
In 1958, Josef and Margarete Kurtsiefer found a metalworking business in Lohmar near Bonn.
In the early days, the business focused on manufacturing doors, gates and metal facades.
WORKING AT KMA
A family business that can compete on the world market
KMA as an employer
Around 100 people in Königswinter and Shanghai develop, build and support systems running in foundries, food processing plants and textile finishing operations worldwide. That means short paths and in-house decisions – yet projects with international reach.
At our company, design engineers, project managers, service technicians, electronics technicians and business administrators all work towards the same goal: to clean process exhaust air and turn the heat it contains into a usable resource. Anyone who joins us will, within the first few months, understand a plant from the raw gas stage right through to the heat exchanger – not just one component of it.
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