Cooperation with the Kärcher company

Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co KG

Kärcher is the world's leading provider of cleaning technology. In 2015, the family-owned company achieved the highest turnover in its history with 2.22 billion euros and sold 12.87 million units. Kärcher offers innovative solutions with high-pressure and ultra high-pressure cleaners, vacuum cleaners and steam cleaners, pumps for home and garden, sweepers and scrubber-dryers, car washes, cleaning agents, dry ice blasting machines, drinking and waste water treatment systems, water dispensers and telematics-based fleet management. They include coordinated products and accessories as well as advice and service.

Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co KG employs 11,333 people in 100 companies in 60 countries. More than 50,000 service points in all countries ensure seamless supply to customers all over the world. Innovation is the most important growth factor for the company: around 90% of all products are five years old or younger. In total, more than 900 employees work in research and development at the cleaning appliance manufacturer.

Innovation has been an integral part of the company's culture since it was founded in 1935. The engineer and passionate inventor Alfred Kärcher searched for solutions to technical problems with an inexhaustible creative urge and inventive spirit. However, he never lost sight of his responsibility for the interests of his employees. Economic success and sustainable development for the company have therefore always formed a solid unit: Kärcher invests above average in research and development, in modern production processes and in the high-quality training and further education of its employees.

Over the last 35 years, Kärcher has carried out over 100 cleaning projects on historical monuments worldwide. The colonnades of St. Peter's Square in Rome, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro, the 3,300-year-old Colossi of Memnon in Luxor in Upper Egypt and the presidential heads on Mount Rushmore have all been cleaned. The cleaning work is always carried out in collaboration with monument conservationists, restorers and art historians.