Milestones

At the turn of the year 1998/1999, Ralf Hofmann and a dozen employees left the old KACO group to start a separate company that was solely dedicated to photovoltaics: KACO GERÄTETECHNIK GmbH. With them, they brought decades of experience from KACO, which was already the world’s largest supplier of electromechanical choppers in the 50s, the predecessors of today’s inverters.

With one of its first series productions, the transformerless inverters, the young company launched itself into the solar age with a bang. KACO helped a technology to succeed that is now standard thanks to its high levels of efficiency. Today, the company is one of the largest manufacturers
of photovoltaic inverters in the world and is called KACO new energy GmbH.

• 2010 Work begins to expand production capacities to 10 gigawatts and split up production locations to Germany (European market), USA (the Americas) and Korea (Asia).
  
  
• 2009 Reorganization as KACO new energy GmbH and opening up of new business fields, among others in the mobility sector.
  
  
• 2008 Start of the new logistics centre and commencement of Factory 4.
  
  
• 2007 KACO builds up a new research and development team for central inverters in Korea.
  
  
• 2006 KACO establishes its new production centre, Factory 3, in Neckarsulm.
  
  
• 2005 KACO opens up its new Logistics and Innovation Center, Factory 2, in Erlenbach. Startup of a new Research and Development Center in Kassel.
  
  
• 2003 KACO GERÄTETECHNIK GmbH moves to its new facilities in Neckarsulm.
  
  
• 1998/99 The expanding KACO GERÄTETECHNIK profit centre reforms as an independent company under the name of KACO GERÄTETECHNIK GmbH.