Kitchen ceramics with tradition and history
systemceram GmbH & Co. KG is a young company with a long-standing tradition. This apparent paradox is deceiving, as the origin of today’s company is the cast ceramics division of KCH Keramchemie founded in 1928.
Manfred Engel, Felix Engel, Kevin Göbel und Gerhard Göbel
History
With the strategic re-orientation of KCH Keramchemie, at the focus of which was acid resistance, the ceramic activities were discontinued on Dec. 31, 1991. At the same time, the founders of today’s systemceram, Gerhard Göbel, Manfred Engel and Peter Noll acquired the cast ceramics unit as part of a management buy-out, making it into an owner-managed family business out of a group-managed company division. This ensured that technological knowhow was able to be continued to be used, expanded and refined.
Die beiden Geschäftsführer Kevin Göbel und Felix Engel
Philosophy
Medium-sized batches on the one hand and the manufacture of resistant products subject to extreme strain on the other hand- the modern production facilities are geared toward the manufacture of ceramics specialties and not toward mass-produced goods. The production flexibility derived from this has made systemceram the contact point for special solutions and for this reason, we are able to show several renowned bathroom equipment suppliers in our customer portfolio.
Teamwork
Our team of currently ca. 220 dedicated associates contributes on ca. 25,000 square meters of production area to the fact that both our customers and suppliers can bank on a reliable partner here in the Westerwald area.
Acclaimed Design and Quality
Acclaimed design in shape and color and the possibility of worktop design through cutting-edge process engineering makes us an esteemed partner in the fitted kitchen market and in laboratory construction. In this context, our products require good planning and customer advice. That is why fitted kitchen retailers and the laboratory construction industry are among our sales partners.
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systemceram – Past and Present
1867
The Cologne merchant Wilhelm Kill is granted a licence to extract clay at the ‘Berggarten Lignite Mine’ in Siershahn – marking the birth of KCH Keramchemie
1928
Establishment of the casting ceramics division at KCH Keramchemie
1968
First large-format laboratory worktop
1985
Presentation of the first KCH kitchen sink at Domotechnika in Cologne, the ‘KSV 100’
1998
The largest order ever received to date: 4,036 laboratory worktops and over 3,000 laboratory sinks, worth more than 4 million DM, were delivered to the University of Großhadern
31.12.1999
Foundation of systemceram by G. Göbel, M. Engel and P. Noll (number of employees: 110, turnover: €12.8 million)
2005
Acquisition of ownership of the land on which the production halls stand, which was previously owned by KCH
September 2007
Mera 90 is being launched as a new product – it is now our most successful product
2010
We are celebrating our 10th anniversary
31.12.2010
Peter Noll is stepping down from the management team to take retirement
2011
€15 million investment in a new production hall
2011
Keuco is being supplied with products from systemceram for the first time as part of an OEM deal; a number of further enquiries and projects are set to follow
02.04.2012
Firing up the new tunnel kiln
31.12.2016
Manfred Engel is stepping down from the management team to take retirement
2018
systemceram is launching bathroom ceramics under its own brand for the first time – Patera and Lavara are the first washbasins to be manufactured
Dez. 2018
We have doubled our workforce from 110 in 2000 to 220 in 2018, and our turnover has almost tripled
31.12.2018
Gerhard Göbel is stepping down from the management team to take retirement; Kevin Göbel and Felix Engel are taking over as sole managing directors
2020
We’re celebrating 20 years of systemceram! We’re proud of this achievement and are inviting our staff to celebrate this milestone with us!
