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Krups is a German kitchen appliance manufacturer. It is part of the Groupe SEB. It is named after its founder, Robert Krups. Wednesday, 02 December 2020 The company produces a large variety of household appliances such as coffee makers, toasters, blenders,
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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 (; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 25 km east of Düsseldorf along the northern edge of the Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr. After Wuppertal, it is the second-largest city in the Bergisches Land, and a member of ...
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. 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 '' Alien'' 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
Limerick Limerick ( ; ) is a city in western Ireland, in County Limerick. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and is in the Mid-West Region, Ireland, Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. W ...
, 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 '' Nespresso'' machine. In 1999 the Krups Irish factory in
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, formerly employing 800 people, closed. Two years later, following bankruptcy, Krups joined Groupe SEB, which subsequently reoriented Krups as a premium brand and employed designer Konstantin Grcic. Sunday, 22 December 2019


See also

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Trojan Room coffee pot The Trojan Room coffee pot was a coffee machine located in the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, England. It was the subject of the world's first webcam, created by Quentin Stafford ...


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/.


External links

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Official website
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