GEKO HISTORY
1946 F. Klaus Maschinen- und Apparatebau GmbH founded by Franz Klaus at the company's current place at Blumenfeldstrasse 18 in Bochum, Germany.
1956 Geko fluid control GmbH founded in Dortmund, Germany;Construction of the first control valve in Europe.
1962 Both firms pooled on the terrain of "GEKO Maschinen- und Apparatebau GmbH" in Bochum-Weitmar, Germany.
1973 Both firms merged under the new company name "Geko Union GmbH & Co. KG"
1981 Sealex trademark registered for Geko Union products.
1987 1987 marked a good start with GEKO and the South Korea SEOJEON Valmac Valve Co., Ltd. of successful cooperation, In the same year, GEKO also began working with SEOJEON Valmac in the international sales and services sectors for linear control valves.
1990 Geko Union receives DIN ISO 9001 certification.
1994 Miroslav, Thomas Danny take over as chief executives.
1999 GEKO began to develop integrated and intelligent valve actuators in 1999, whichwere then patented worldwide. Technical innovations, documented by numerous
patents, have distinguished the company since its founding.
2002 2002 GEKO and FU-YUAN Industrial in Taiwan jointly established a joint venture company GEKO Controls Ltd., serve the Asian market. This is our second joint venture between.
2004 GEKO company has developed an integrated metal seated ball valves, the use ofspace technology to enjoy the world HVOF patented technology (rocket sprayedmetal particle technology), which uses rocket and gun Raoul, with three high-speedairflow Mach hit the metal powder on the metal surface, the hardness of thesurface hardened layer, depending on the spray material, the hardness: HRC66 ~72, which can be seen GEKO's hardness HVOF technique is not compared to theother valve manufacturer, thus greatly overcome the sealing surface particulatemedia erosion.
2006 50th anniversary of the founding of Geko Union- A standalone service affiliate, Geko Union Service GmbH, is founded.
2018 Founded in Singapore：Geko Valves＆Controls Pte.Ltd
GEKO IN CHINA
2005 In 2005, GEKO entered the Chinese market with its firstlicensing partner.
2008 In 2008, GEKO opened Changzhou Geko Automation Equipment Co.,Ltd., a local sales office in China.This was a key step to increasing its commitment there. The new production andinnovation center at the company’s site in Bochum-Weitmar created more space forproduction and management, enabling customer orders to be processed efficientlyand new, innovative ideas to be put into practice.
2016 In 2016 Taiwan Geko valve co.ltd was established after Geko become a shareholder of GV valve co.ltd., which develop cryogenic valve and High Purity Clean Ball Valve and provide a better service on optoelectronic industry, medical Biotechlogy,semiconductor,electronic chemical manufacturing.
2022 With the rapid growth of the industrial control valve in the Chinese market, Geko Valves & Controls decide to start the projectto build New plant in Changzhou. In order to improvethe ability to supply industrial valve for major market, we continue toincrease the investment on new R & D center and production plant chemical manufacturing.
