Corporate history
Our company has been in business for 115 years. A supplier to industry and trade, kiener + wittlin ag is active in the areas of steel and metal, industrial fasteners and tools.
Our past forms the foundation for our future. The competency, continuity and know-how we offer are the results of our years of experience in the business. This stable basis creates the space for new ideas and products: from tradition comes vision.
| 2023 | Commissioning of a large-scale photovoltaic system with an annual output of 3.4 gigawatt hours. |
| 2022 | The sales office Western Switzerland North has been opend in Neuchâtel/Neuenburg |
| 2020 2020 | The sales office Zürich has been opened in Rümlang. In a new building at the headquarters in Münchenbuchsee, a partially automated logistics system for fastening technology is put into operation. |
| 2019 | The sales office central Switzerland has been opened in Hergiswil (NW) |
| 2018 | The sales office Tessin has been opened in Camorino (Bellinzona) |
| 2016 | The sales office Aargau (Unterentfelden) has been opened. |
| 2014 | At the Münchenbuchsee site a fully-automatic high rack warehouse for long goods is put into service for the areas of bright steel, non-ferrous metals and tubes. |
| 2014 | The sales office Western Switzerland has been opened in Noville (Villeneuve). |
| 2008 | The owning Lustenberger family withdraws from operational business and controls the fate of the company in the administrative board. |
| 1996 | The Valais branch moved from Susten/Leuk to Steg (near Visp) and a new office building and a warehouse has been constructed. |
| 1991 | Following the death of the longtime chairman Werner Buri in 1984, Max Lustenberger takes over kiener + wittlin ag in a management buyout. |
| 1988 | A sales office is opened in Basel. |
| 1962 | A new office and warehouse complex covering an area of 46,000 square metres has been built in Münchenbuchsee, Bern. |
| 1959 | Following the deaths of the two company founders, the company passes into the hands of Julie Kiener-Buri. Her brother-in-law, Werner Buri, takes over as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. The Valais Branch ist opened in Susten/Leuk. |
| 1919 | «J.G. Kiener + Wittlin» trade their horse-drawn cart for a truck formerly used by the imperial Austrian army. |
| 1912 | Alois Wittlin enters the business as co-owner. A new building housing offices and an ironmonger’s is erected at Schauplatzgasse 23. |
| 1905 | Aged 24 years Johann Gottlieb Kiener founded a ironmongery in Bern. |
