PCB. Smarter. Together.
Because quality cannot be relative.

Einstein in visual of a printed circuit board represents top PCB quality

Who are KSG?

Our name is: KSG.
Our product: PCBs, from samples through to large-scale production.
Our DNA: Passionate overachievers.
Our most important quality? Committed team players.
What are we striving for? Continuous improvement.
Where do we want to go? From customer proximity to customer integration.
What drives us? New technologies and challenges.
Our attitude? People make the difference!

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Good reasons to choose KSG

What actually sets us apart from other PCB manufacturers? Quite simply: We are passionate overachievers. Good is not good enough for us. We want to be better.

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#1 Speed to Market

You can only change the world by being ahead of your time. In the case of new products, it's often a race to see who makes it onto the market first. With fast processes, 100% binding delivery dates, and samples with series maturity, we provide you with the drive that will take you right to the top.

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#2 Engineering Support

Make great things happen together with experts. You bring the ideas, and we contribute our curiosity and thirst for knowledge. In co-engineering projects with our experienced specialists, we develop solutions that can make your product even better.

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#3 European Quality

We live in the same time zone. And the same things make us tick. Thanks to European quality standards covering everything from consultation by way of data processing through to manufacturing, our PCBs have the precision of a Swiss watch. Getting in contact with us is very easy, and we speak your language, whether it's German, English, technical jargon, or simply straight talking!

Whether career path or PCB track.

If impulses are passed on correctly, positive effects ensue. For 140 years.

C. A. Uhlmann craft business (predecessor of KSG Leiterplatten)
1878
KSG Gornsdorf

Founding of the craft business

C. A. Uhlmann

Metal etching company Häusermann, later a manufacturer of printed circuit boards
1907
KSG Gars

Häusermann founded as a metal etching shop

From a craft business to a stocking factory C. A. Uhlmann KG, later KSG Leiterplatten GmbH
up to 1945
KSG Gornsdorf

Expansion to become C. A. Uhlmann KG Stocking Factories

Employees in electronics production
1956
KSG Gornsdorf

Start of electronics production

First employees of the printed circuit board production in Gornsdorf
1959
KSG Gornsdorf

Start of PCB production in Gornsdorf

Employees looking at the first printed circuit board produced in Gars
1966
KSG Gars

Start of PCB production in Gars

Image of a printed circuit board with etched copper conductors on one side
1966
KSG Gars

First PCB made of resin-impregnated bonded paper boards with single-sided etched copper wires

Multiple multilayer circuit boards from Gars
1980
KSG Gars

First Austrian manufacturer to produce multilayers

Production plant of the private company KSG Leiterplatten
1994
KSG Gornsdorf

Return to the founding family
From the former KSG Combine and subsequent trusteeship, KSG once again emerges as a private company

HSMtec printed circuit boards
2007
KSG Gars

Market launch of HSMtec
Own technology for achieving targeted thermal management and high currents on PCBs

Start of modern production at the printed circuit board manufacturer in Gornsdorf
2008
KSG Gornsdorf

Start of production at the new ultra- modern production facility (investment of € 50 million)

KSG and Häusermann merge to become the second-largest printed circuit board manufacturer in Europe
2017
KSG Gornsdorf + KSG Gars

KSG acquires 100% of the shares of Häusermann. With a turnover of 132 million euros, the KSG Group is Europe’s second largest PCB manufacturer.

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True revolutionaries are always visionaries, too. They do not simply wait for the future - they create the future themselves. We've pledged to support our customers in doing this, too: With the latest materials and production techniques, but also with our know-how, experience, and the thirst for knowledge of our developers.