Ka-Ro Electronics

Matthias Kaussen and Rolf Rosenstein, two students of electro engineering in Aachen, Germany, founded Ka-Ro electronics as an electronics manufacturing service in 1988. Just a year later in 1989, the young entrepreneurs were able to introduce semi-automatic surface mount technology into their manufacturing service. The investment in the first fully automated SMT machine at Ka-Ro took place two years later and lead to an enormous increase and improvement in production. After establishing Ka-Ro as a GmbH (limited company form) in 1992 the expansion of the manufacturing services continued and in 1993 Ka-Ro installed the first fully automatic SMT line (Intelliplace 2500).