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20-617: KMW may refer to: Krauss-Maffei Wegmann , a German heavy equipment manufacturing company Klosterneuburger Mostwaage , a scale for must weight in winemaking primarily used in Austria, and originally the name of a piece of equipment for doing the actual measurement Karlstads Mekaniska Werkstad ( Kamewa ) (1860-1986), a former Swedish machinery company, now part of Rolls-Royce KMW, IATA code for Kostroma Airport in Russia Topics referred to by

40-514: A 155mm artillery shell production facility. A guarantee by the Belgian Defense Ministry of €10 million was needed to initiate construction. In May 2024 the price of the munitions was between €7,000 and €10,000. The facility would be able to produce roughly 100 shells per day, which was then roughly a third of the number of heavy artillery shells produced at KNDS overall. At the time, Mecar did not have permission to handle explosives, so

60-448: A large portion of production. In 2014, the firm had 3,200 employees and €1 billion in sales, and the cost of a Leopard 2 tank was roughly €10 million. In 2014 KMW faced fines of up to €400 million because it had bribed Greek officials in the sale of tanks, and the German government was considering lifting its permission to export. In December 2015, Krauss-Maffei Wegmann joined with

80-447: A merger of the two Munich firms of Maffei (founded 1838) and Krauss & Co. (founded 1860). Both belonged to the leading German makers of locomotives of various types. Maffei also built other steam-operated vehicles and, later, manufactured vehicles with combustion engines, including locomotives, trolleybuses and buses . In the 1960s, Kraus-Maffei entered production of armoured fighting vehicles , starting with Leopard 1 tanks for

100-750: A petition to the Bavarian state parliament with a complaint against the test track. In the still ongoing petition procedure, the Ministry of the Environment made the statement that there was no existing protection for the circuit on Ludwigsfelder Straße and that the system was not approved in terms of building law. In addition, in October 2021, a lawsuit was submitted to the Munich Administrative Court in October 2021. In mid -January 2022, IG Metall campaigned for

120-453: A single company jointly owned, via holding companies , by the French state and the private owners of KMW. In 2024, Nexter was renamed KNDS France. KNDS France and its subsidiaries are divided into several smaller entities, with the main one being KNDS France. The sub-companies are: The GIAT group was founded in 1973 by combining the industrial assets of the technical direction of Army weapons of

140-479: A single structure. The new KMW+Nexter Defense Systems (KNDS) will be the European leader of terrestrial defense with more than 6,000 employees. The supervisory board appointed the new CEO of Nexter Systems, Stéphane Mayer, and the chairman of the executive board of KMW, Frank Haun, as CEOs of the holding company. On 24 October 2023, Nexter's Mecar subsidiary announced that it had found an investment of €15 million for

160-431: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Krauss-Maffei Wegmann KMW was formed in 1999 when the defense division of KraussMaffei Group was spun off and merged with Wegmann & Co . In 2015, KMW became part of KMW+Nexter Defense Systems (KNDS), and in 2024 it was renamed KNDS Deutschland. KMW's predecessor company, Krauss-Maffei, started in 1931 from

180-565: The French Ministry of Defense . The company was nationalized in 1991. On 22 September 2006 GIAT became the core of the new company Nexter. For many years GIAT struggled to turn a profit. The company was operated at a loss. A 2001 report by the Cour des Comptes and a 2002 report by the National Assembly described the situation as critical. In April 2004 the board of directors presented

200-566: The HAL Light Combat Helicopter , incorporating the 20 mm M621 cannon . On 21 September 2006, then-CEO Luc Vigneron announced that GIAT would soon complete a corporate restructuring that had been planned since 2003. The company's legacy product lines would be grouped under a holding company that would retain the GIAT name, while those slated for future development and expansion would be separated into four subsidiaries, all branded with

220-637: The Bundeswehr. In 1999 defense production was spun off and merged with Wegmann & Co to form Krauss-Maffei Wegmann. Wegman had a 51% stake and Mannesmann AG , Kraus-Maffei's holding company at the time, had a 49% stake. Siemens acquired Mannesmann's share in 2000. Wegmann Unternehmens-Holding KG, based in Kassel , bought the Siemens stake in December 2010 to become the sole shareholder of KMW. This holding company

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240-405: The French state-owned defence company Nexter Systems to form KMW+Nexter Defense Systems , a new holding company half owned by KMW's old private owners and half owned by the French state. Rumoured as early as July 2014, the combined company was set to employ 6,000 people and have a yearly revenue of around €2 billion, plus an order book of €9 billion. French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian

260-608: The Saudi government, which had established more stringent precision standards than normal. The state-of-the-art ordnance systems used GPS and IMU ; the newly-specified "Sabir" system would add a (drone-mounted) laser pointer feature and have a range of 60km. In addition, the Saudis prize the ITAR -free status of their new shells. As a result of the merger of Nexter Systems into KNDS, the KNDS brand replaced

280-800: The name "Nexter". The reorganization took effect on 1 December. Nexter has a joint venture CTA International with BAE Systems to develop and manufacture case telescoped weapon systems and ammunition of 40 mm calibre. Nexter continues to produce several former GIAT small arms, cannon, and anti-armour weapons. One such weapon is the Wasp 58 , a low cost, one man antiarmour/assault weapon system. In May 2014 Nexter bought two artillery shell manufacturers: Mecar in Petit-Roeulx-les-Nivelles Belgium, and Simmel Difesa in Colleferro Italy. In 2015, Nexter and Krauss-Maffei merged under

300-600: The preservation of the route, since 1650 jobs were in danger without it. By defense division of KraussMaffei : By Krauss-Maffei Wegmann: Nexter Systems KNDS France (formerly known as Nexter , GIAT Industries or Groupement des Industries de l'Armée de Terre , Army Industries Group) is a French government-owned weapons manufacturer , based in Versailles . The company was wholly government-owned as GIAT from 1991 to 2006 and as Nexter from 2006 to 2015, when it merged with Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) to form KNDS :

320-584: The public with a financial statement showing a profit of several hundred million Euros. This was mainly due to increased export sales, and the modernization of the Leclerc Main Battle Tank (MBT) and several other armored platforms. Sales to the UAE however were accomplished with the payment of $ 200 million to intermediaries. In 2006, the THL-20 gun turret was selected by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited for use on

340-403: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title KMW . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KMW&oldid=1244175757 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

360-455: The shells needed to be sent away for final assembly. In May 2024 the Belgian defense minister Ludivine Dedonder signed a contract with Nexter to buy 4,000 shells annually for the next 20 years. In February 2024 Nexter signed an agreement with a Saudi group called Wahaj that they would together develop a guided shell for use with the 156 CAESAR artillery delivery systems that were on order by

380-480: Was content at the prospect of consolidating the terrestrial armoury of Europe. The company has been running a tank test route in Allach since 1964, the building law of which is controversial. When KMW applied for an expansion of the operating hours in spring 2018, this met with resistance in parts of the residential and the district committee. At the end of 2020, the citizens' initiative "School instead of tank" submitted

400-487: Was owned by about 26 silent partners, all members of the families Bode, von Braunbehrens, von Maydell and Sethe and all descendants of the firm's founders or the later owners of Wegmann & Co. In 2012, KMW acquired WFEL, a British company that descended from the Fairey Aviation Company . In 2013 and 2014, about 80% of the firm's sales came from the export market, continuing a fifteen-year trend of exporting

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