The story began in 1909 with the foundation of KÜRBI & Niggeloh in Barmen-Rittershausen. In November, 1911 Wilhelm Kürbi and Carl Niggeloh started up with a new fabrication building in Radevormwald. From this time there was produced, developed and managed on 1200 m².
In the following years, K.& N had many good ideas in tripod crafting and in time they started a significant camera production.

In Juli, 1961 the first automotion for synthetic parts was installed, because they expected a great future in synthetic parts. Years later the fabrication building was to small again and a second building was built, with 12 000 m². Since this time production and stock keeping is settled here.