75 years of Kaps Optik - Focus on details
From cinema projection machines to high-tech surgical microscopes - this characterizes the 75-year history of the company. It is precisely these challenges that have made Kaps Optik a renowned high-tech supplier in its industries. Understanding change and shaping it into innovative products that provide users with real benefits: this has been a precept of the Hessian family-owned company from Asslar since 1946.
Customers and partners worldwide appreciate the attention to detail that the company brings to all its projects around the globe. The experience gained from 75 years in the market helps in finding and implementing a suitable solution for every customer.
75 years of Kaps Optik - Made in Germany
75 years of Kaps Optik also stands for 75 years made in Germany. It is not only out of tradition that Kaps Optik feels connected to its home country and its region. Part of the company's commitment to Germany as a location for business is also the aspiration for absolute quality.
The site in Asslar has always been the production facility for high-tech optical products from Central Hesse. Many of the employees come from families, some of whom have been loyal to the company for several generations.
Through this location philosophy, the company not only sustainably secures economic performance and jobs for the region, but also confirms its imperative claim to the quality of its products.
"Running a family business with a 75-year tradition is, of course, always a challenge, especially in these demanding times. However, it has always been part of the family tradition to turn challenges into promising perspectives."
Holger Kaps, Managing Director
75 years of Kaps Optik - Innovation
75 years of Kaps Optik also means 75 years of cooperation with partners, customers and doctors worldwide. Networking and exchange are a vital part of our culture and help us to continue to recognize the requirements for new methods and standards in medical technology at an early stage and to develop custom-fit solutions. We want to use our innovations to improve the quality of life for our customers' patients in all parts of the world. And thus make life more liveable for many people!
75 years of Kaps
On the left with hand in pocket: Company founder Karl Kaps The staff of the Kaps company in front of the company building in the Ringstraße, early 60s
On the left with hand in pocket: Company founder Karl Kaps
In the picture: Heinrich Kreuter (left) Mechanical production in the company building in the Ringstraße, early 60s
In the picture: Heinrich Kreuter (left)
Plant manager Paul Diehl at the drawing board Design office in the Ringstraße, 60s
Plant manager Paul Diehl at the drawing board - drawing of the H-microscope (the first laboratory microscope in the Kaps company).
On the left, company boss Karl Kaps hands over a laboratory microscope KC to the then Hessian Minister of Agriculture Werner Best (previously District Administrator of Wetzlar). Company building in the Ringstraße, end of the 60s
On the left, company boss Karl Kaps hands over a laboratory microscope KC to the then Hessian Minister of Agriculture Werner Best (previously District Administrator of Wetzlar).
Unknown trade show, mid-70s Unknown trade show, mid-70s
Products: Laboratory microscopes KCBE 14- H-microscope.
In the picture: Karlheinz Kaps (left) - Volkmar Sieber (center) Medica Düsseldorf, mid-80s
In the picture: Karlheinz Kaps (left) - Volkmar Sieber (center)
Products: Laboratory microscopes type KCBE and SOM 1, SOM 62 and SOM 12 (first generation) - with motorized 5-fold changer.
Left: Erich Wagner at the microscope SOM 12 (first generation), next to it 2 colposcopes SOM 5 Company building in the Schulstraße, mid-80s
Left: Erich Wagner at the microscope SOM 12 (first generation), next to it 2 colposcopes SOM 5
Assembly of laboratory microscope KCBE14 Company building in the Schulstraße, mid 80s
Assembly of laboratory microscope KCBE14
Left: Karlheinz Kaps, right: Karl-Heiner GroßPyramids of Giza Taken on March 3rd, 1990: Visit to Abou el Hol, Cairo (Egypt)
Left: Karlheinz Kaps, right: Karl-Heiner Groß
Pyramids of Giza