2020
Market launch of a hybrid double containment shell; the combination of a metallic and a non-metallic containment shell (technical ceramics)
1946
F. Klaus Maschinen- und Apparatebau GmbH founded by Franz Klaus at the company's current place at Blumenfeldstrasse 18 in Bochum, Germany
1957
Union Armaturen GmbH founded in Dortmund, Germany;
Construction of the first Titanpump in Europe
1961
Both firms pooled on the terrain of "F. Klaus Maschinen- und Apparatebau GmbH" in Bochum-Weitmar, Germany