Company History from 1950 to 1970: The Beginning

• 1958 Karl Schlecht founds KS-Maschinenbau in Germany
  
  

• 1961: Construction of the first section of Factory I in Filderstadt near Stuttgart airport. Company renamed “Putzmeister-Werk Maschinenfabrik GmbH”

• 1965: Manufacture of Gypsomat, the world’s first automatic and continuously working plaster machine for gypsum plaster, revolutionising plastering technique of the day
  
  

• 1967: Putzmeister develops a hydraulically driven concrete pump with water