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Vision

At Kuhlmann, we want you to have a room where you feel comfortable and at home with your family. A place for conversation, a place to get together, a place where memories are made. That place is your Kuhlmann kitchen.
The Kuhlmann family has been working on your “dream kitchen” for generations. A life task that has driven the further development of the fitted kitchen under constantly growing demands. We take over this tradition and continue it in our industrial manufactory in the spirit of our artisan history and work on it every day with great passion.
In the future, we will continue to take on the responsibility that the company’s founders gave us: To produce kitchens that, in the face of an ever-changing world, will inspire future generations just as much as they did almost a century ago.

History

January 2021

1923

The company RWK® is founded as a joinery by the brothers Robert and Wilhelm Kuhlmann.

1949

Just four years later, Walter Kuhlmann takes over the family business.

1960

The company grows and concentrates more and more on the production of fitted kitchens.

1970

The industrial series production of kitchen furniture is perfected. Add-on kitchens become fitted kitchens.

1986

Bernd Robert Wilhelm Kuhlmann joins the family business.

1992

Jochen Kuhlmann joins the company, focusing on modern design and customisable product variants.

2008

The company grows and concentrates more and more on the production of fitted kitchens.

2012

In addition to the RWK® brand, the brand “Kuhlmann – Meine Küche. Made in Germany.” will be introduced.

2014

Frank Cai, CEO of Boloni Group, China’s leading kitchen furniture manufacturer, invests in Kuhlmann to offer German kitchen quality in China.

2014/15

The management around Ralf Marohn continues to focus the company on the satisfaction of the German and international specialised trade partners and their customers.

2015

Kuhlmann stands for family values, for product and service quality. Approximately 100 employees work for this on 15,000 square metres of production space at the company’s site in Enger.

2019

The company has moved from Enger to Löhne. At the new location, the exhibition space has tripled and the production area has doubled. The operational management of the company is in the hands of the authorised signatories Christian Reupke (sales) and Hilmar Fröhlich (production).

May 2020

2022

The authorized signatories Hilmar Fröhlich and Christian Reupke are appointed managing directors of RWK & Kuhlmann Küchen GmbH.
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