en_history – Klaus Union

Market launch of non-metallic containment shells made of heavy-duty technical ceramics

Market launch of a hybrid double containment shell; the combination of a metallic and a non-metallic containment shell (technical ceramics)

Market launch of the world's first five offset Butterfly Valve V-AXX

Klaus Union celebrates its 75th anniversary

First magnet drive pumps unveiled at the Achema trade show.

F. Klaus Maschinen- und Apparatebau GmbH founded by Franz Klaus at the company's current place at Blumenfeldstrasse 18 in Bochum, Germany

Union Armaturen GmbH founded in Dortmund, Germany;
Construction of the first Titanpump in Europe

Both firms pooled on the terrain of "F. Klaus Maschinen- und Apparatebau GmbH" in Bochum-Weitmar, Germany

Both firms merged under the new company name "Franz Klaus Union Armaturen Pumpen GmbH & Co. KG"

Development of a new magnet system (Basis Sm2Co17)