http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orenstein_%26_Koppel
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| Former type | Public |
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| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Fate | Acquired |
| Founded | April 1, 1876 |
| Founder(s) | Benno Orenstein Arthur Koppel |
| Defunct | January 1, 1999 |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Railway vehicles Heavy equipment Escalators |
| Parent | New Holland Construction |
Orenstein & Koppel (normally abbreviated to "O&K") is a major German engineering company specialising in railway vehicles, escalators, and heavy equipment. It was founded on April 1, 1876 in Berlin by Benno Orenstein and Arthur Koppel.
Originally a general engineering company, O&K soon started to specialise in the manufacture of railway vehicles. The company also manufactured heavy equipment and escalators. O&K pulled out of the railway business in 1981. Its escalator-manufacturing division was spun off to the company's majority shareholder at the time, Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp, in 1996, leaving the company to focus primarily on construction machines.[1] The construction-equipment business was sold to New Holland Construction, at the time part of the Fiat Group, in 1999.[2][3]
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