In 1828, Joseph Kuhn, a blacksmith from the small town of Eckartswiller, France, began manufacturing livestock weighing equipment at his village forge.
From that humble beginning arose the KUHN Group, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of agricultural machinery, including mowers, tedders, swathers, chaff cutters, tillage equipment and seeders. Now based in Saverne, near Strasbourg, in northeastern France, the KUHN Group tallied sales of more than 1.5 billion euros last year, and it employs some 6,000 people worldwide. The company operates factories on three continents and distribution subsidiaries and importers in more than 100 countries.