Krups products

The company began manufacturing precision balances, and mainly industrial balances, in 1846 in Wald, now a district of Solingen in North Rhine-Westphalia. This was the company's main product for the next 110 years. [citation needed]

In 1951, after the postwar reconstruction of the 1950s and the economic boom in Germany, Krups moved into the lucrative sphere of consumer appliances. The very popular 3Mix mixing machine (German, Drei-Mix) was launched in 1959 and soon became an accessory in almost one in two West German households, followed in 1961 by the ONKO coffee machine, available as F468 until 2014. In 1965, the company launched its first slicer, a very popular product in Germany where sausage (wurst) and cheese are consumed as staples.

In 1979, the Krups Type 223 Coffina Super coffee grinder was used as a prop in the movie Alien as part of the Nostromo spacecraft, and also in Back to the Future as' Mr. Fusion'. In 1983 the first Krups coffee machines were launched

In 1990, the company employed 3,000 people in four German factories, as well as one in Limerick, Ireland, with annual revenues of DEM 541 million. Coffee machines were the most popular product, accounting for 40 percent of sales in Germany and 30 percent in the United States. The following year Krups entered into a joint venture with Nestlé to produce the Nespresso machine.

In 1999 the Krups Irish factory in Limerick, which previously employed 800 people, closed down. Two years later, after bankruptcy, Krups joined Groupe SEB, which subsequently reoriented Krups as a premium brand and employed designer Konstantin Grcic.