The KRAMSKI History - started 1978 ......

 

1978

Foundation of KRAMSKI GmbH in Pforzheim with 2 shareholders Oct. 16th 1978 with a paid in sharecapital of 50,000 Deutsche Mark (approx. 25,000 EURO)

 
1979

Start of production in a leased building in Pforzheim, Hildebrandstrasse 3 on January 2nd 1979


Win of the competition – make yourself your own company – of the Capital magazine competition and receiving the winners check of 30,000 Deutsche Mark (approx. 15,000 EURO)

 
1980

First time exhibiting at the BlechShow in Essen with a R&D tool (grinding or w-EDM, which one is better). Approx. 80,000 spinning wheels stamped and given away

 
1984

The first Kramski building constructed on the green field in Birkenfeld, moving the company from Pforzheim to Birkenfeld

 

1987

Buy-out of the second shareholder, W. Kramski owns now 100% of all shares

 

1988

Increasing the sharecapital of KRAMSKI GmbH to 102,000 Deutsche Mark (approx 53,000 EURO)

 

1993

Foundation of KRAMSKI Lanka Private Ltd. as a 100% subsidiary in Sri Lanka with a sharecapital of 50 Mio Rupees

 

1990

Leasing an 2500 sqft. building and moving the design department to a new location in Pforzheim

 

1994

Building of an Administration Location next to our production site in Birkenfeld, extending our sqft by 12,000. The design section is integrated from Pforzheim back to Birkenfeld.

 

1997

Leasing of a production facility in Birkenfeld, leasing of 6 Stamping units and start of stamping production for a customer who had to relocate tools quickly

 

1997

Increasing the sharecapital of KRAMSKI GmbH to 613,000 EURO

 

1998

Decision to establish a new location in Pforzheim to integrate everything into one location to be prepared for future production and success into a 65,000 sqft. facility.

 
 1999

Moving the KRAMSKI GmbH from Birkenfeld to Pforzheim into our new facility



Extending our Sri Lanka facility to 23,000sqft, Establishing the roots of our mold making capability in Sri Lanka, starting the first overmolding line in Sri Lanka with manual insertion of compliant pins into a mold on a rotary table.

 

1999

Increasing the sharecapital of KRAMSKI GmbH to 1,000,000 EURO

 

 
2000

KRAMSKI GmbH – Restructuring of partners. Wiestaw Kramski , the owner and founder keeps 76% of the shares, the new partners Renate Kramski (8%), Andreas Kramski (8%), Sabine Kramski (8%) hold 24% each

 

2001

Increasing the sharecapital of KRAMSKI GmbH to 2,500,000 EURO

 

2002

Foundation of KRAMSKI North America, Inc. in Largo, FL Sept. 20th with a paid in sharecapital of 900,000 US$, a 100% subsidiary of KRAMSKI GmbH

 

2002

Startup of the first reel 2 reel production line in Pforzheim

 

2003

Production start in the USA on January 2nd with 3 stamping units



2003

Happy 25th Birthday for KRAMSKI GmbH in Germany

Extending the board of Directors with Andreas Kramski, Managing Partner for Production/Sales/IT


W. Kramski develops a new generation of Putters: The High Precision Putter

 

2004

Increasing the sharecapital of KRAMSKI GmbH to 3,000,000 EURO

 

2004

Restructuring of partners. Wiestaw Kramski , the owner and founder keeps 76% of the shares, the partners Andreas Kramski (12%) and Sabine Kramski (12%) hold 24% together

 

2004

Restructuring of KRAMSKI North America, Martin Bischoff receives 10% ownership of KRAMSKI NA, the sharecapital is increased to 1,000,000 US$

 

2005

Extension of the production facilities in Pforzheim, Germany, especially for the growing molding processes. A new building of 45,000sqft is extended to the existing ones


Installation of 2 fully automated robotic overmolding cells with integrated assembly of resistors and resistance welding.


Extension in Sri Lanka from 23,000sqft to 45,000sqft.


Foundation of KRAMSKI Putter GmbH with its own high precision Putter line, the KRAMSKI Family owns the new company

 
2006

Roland Eberhardt is announced managing Director for Production, Quality and Design

 

First European PGA Win for KRAMSKI Putter in Austria, a total of 13 professional wins until the end of 2006 shows the good acceptance the Putter has on the market.

 


2007

KRAMSKI North America moves into a new location from 15,000sqft to 34,000 sqft.

First installation of a reel 2 reel overmolding process at KRAMSKI NA.


 

2008

Foundation of KRAMSKI Stamping & Molding India Private Ltd. as a 100% subsidiary in India

A start in 1978 .....