News
As a dynamic and active company we keep the marten on its toes– and keep you up to date. Whether it’s product development, a trade fair visit or testing results – K&K is constantly on the move. You can find out where our journey is taking us in our news section.
July, 2023
The new electric powered company fleet
Since we at K&K put a lot of effort into sustainable energy, we have been using solar panels to power our buildings for several years now.
We are all the more proud to have added 3 brand new Dacia Spring E-vehicles to our office team, raising awareness for sustainable transportation solutions at the same time.
Renewable solar energy allows us to power our e-fleet vehicles with green electricity directly at our Oftersheim site, thus contributing to a greener footprint for a lower carbon future.
Team K&K
27. September, 2022
AUTOMECHANICA 2022
Exciting. Informative and personal.
Numerous interesting discussions and an exciting 5-day trade fair lie behind us. A total of 78,000 international visitors explored this year’s Automechanika, which covers the entire value chain of the automotive aftermarket like no other trade fair. “There is no substitute for trade fairs” formulates Detlef Braun, Managing Director Messe Frankfurt. And we also very much appreciate the personal contact with our customers and were delighted to meet them again.
Sophia Niedermayer, Marketing Manager
In addition, we were nominated for the INNOVATIONAWARD of Messe Frankfurt. Sustainably efficient – this also convinced the jury of the INNOVATIONAWARD. With our resource-saving M9900, we were nominated in the Accessories & Customization category. Our Marketing Manager Sophia Niedermayer was happy to receive the certificate on our behalf.
Booth K&K Marderabwehr – Marcos Alonso Gomez, Sales Manager Europe
August, 2022
Swiss Automotive Show in Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
K&K Marderabwehr now also in Switzerland!
Finally, we can use the trade fairs again, exchange ideas and develop further. We were able to experience two exciting days at the Swiss Automotive Show in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. More than 100 exhibitors and more than 2800 visitors exchanged information about news, products and services.
Sophia Niedermayer, Marketing Manager & Marcos Alonso Gomez, Sales Manager Europe
Click here for the SAS trade fair report of AUTO & WIRTSCHAFT
29. September, 2021
Climate-neutral website
Just as committed as we are to animal welfare, we also set our climate protection goals high. Now that our packaging is switching to cardboard made from sustainable paper with FSC certification, our website is also climate neutral.
Websites are climate-neutral if the CO2 emissions generated have been calculated and offset. Surfing the Internet produces CO2 emissions, primarily due to the power consumption of the servers, during data transmission and through the end devices of the users. Based on our monthly page impressions, we have worked together with ClimatePartner www.climatepartner.com to determine the CO2 emissions caused by our website and offset them via a certified climate protection project.
At www.climatepartner.com/17374-2109-1001 you can transparently see how many CO2 emissions were caused by our site and which project we support. It is ClimatePartner’s exclusive climate protection project at the Virunga National Park in the DR Congo: A small run-of-river power plant supplies households and businesses with electricity, thus initiating economic development and also replacing charcoal from the national park as the main source of energy. This preserves valuable habitat, not only for some of the last free-living mountain gorillas (www.climatepartner.com/1072).
25. March, 2019
K&K GOES INTERNATIONAL
From now on, our online store is also available to our English and French speaking users.
All important information on the topic of marten defense could also be found by our non-German website visitors in English and French on our homepage for quite some time. Now it is also possible to use the online store in the corresponding language.
26. September, 2018
SUCCESSFUL EXISTENCE AT AUTOMECHANIKA 2018
The Automechanika Frankfurt ended on 15 September after five days with a record attendance at exhibitors and a new area record. In total, around 136,000 trade visitors came from 181 countries. K&K participated for the first time as an exhibitor and used the trade fair for many discussions with interested parties and customers from various countries. The visitors already “stumbled” on entering the hall 3.1 over the cute marten, who unmistakably showed the way to the marten defence experts from Oftersheim at the end of the escalator.
9. April, 2018
AUTOMECHANIKA 2018 –
11-15 September in Frankfurt am Main
As one of the leading providers of marten defence products, K&K cannot afford to miss Automechanika.
Automechanika is the largest trade show for after-market products in the automotive sector. K&K will be on site to explain to an international audience what makes a really good marten defence: At this point, it is worth separating the wheat from the chaff. K&K marten defence relies exclusively on proven methods that have been developed to incredible levels of refinement. The result is easy-to-install, innovative products that are unrivalled in their impact. To give just one example, the acknowledged electric fence method has been perfected thanks to unique multi-contact high-voltage brushes with integrated positive and negative poles. They run through the thick fur of the marten like a comb and give it an instructive but harmless shock. By contrast, comparable products rely on contact with exposed parts of the body such as the snout or the paw. In addition, the animal often has to touch a conductive part of the engine. This is not necessary with K&K devices either. An additional 360° ultrasound speaker produces pulsating sine wave which is unpleasant for the marten, providing extra protection. Unlike cheaper products, it prevents the habituation effect that is often wrongly attributed to ultrasound defence in general.
1. February, 2018
COMMUNICATION IS IMPORTANT TO US
Cable spaghettiat K&K? What any marten would see as an oversized plate of spaghetti are actually the ‘synapses’ of our ‘nerve centre’ in the new K&K building.
Team K&K
26. June, 2023
AUTOZUM SALZBURG 2023
This year’s theme was “red-white-red”.
Unlike previous years, it wasn’t under a blanket of snow, but with temperatures of 28°C in the shade, that we welcomed our customers to our stand at AutoZum in the beautiful city of Salzburg.
AutoZum is one of Austria’s biggest specialist automotive trade fairs, and takes place every two years in Salzburg. After a break in the previous winters, this year’s show took place in the summer.
We greeted our visitors with a hearty “Servus” as soon as they entered, before escorting them into the red-white, marten-free K&K area.
As at previous shows, we had a good opportunity to present our products, innovations and services to dealers and garages, and also to strengthen and expand our business relationships. Once again, we found that direct contact cannot always be replaced by digital communication.
05. October, 2021
Bite-prone e-vehicles
If a bite-prone marten gets caught in an electric vehicle, it gets really expensive. A new study by the Allianz Center for Technology says – the lower the purchase price of the electric car, the greater the risk of a total loss.
The problem: High-voltage cables are not easy to replace. Even if only one cable is affected, the entire cable set usually has to be replaced, and that has expensive consequences – the vehicle owner then has to reckon with costs of up to 7,000 euros.
Read more about the new study here: https://bit.ly/3a2aXLL
So it’s better to take precautions right away with the battery-powered marten repellent devices from K&K. These work independently of the vehicle’s electrical system and are therefore ideally suited for electrically powered vehicles.
March, 2022
APP APP Hooray!
New helpful gadget from the marten defense specialist is the new K&K Reminder app (www.kuk-reminder.com). Practical for self-sufficient devices, because this reminds in time to look at the integrated low-battery indicator, which indicates the charge state of the standard AA batteries. This means that the latest generation of motors is also protected throughout.
11. March, 2019
FIT FOR SPRING
With the onset of the warm season, marten damage in engine compartments is on the rise again. Which agents protect against the unloved attacks and which do not, auto motor und sport has put under the microscope in its special section “Fit into spring”.
In the current issue, “auto motor und sport” magazine presents a wide variety of defense methods against marten bites in its special supplement “Fit in den Frühling”. The most effective marten repellent devices are rated as high voltage, which offer long-term protection against the biting rodent. The recommendation from ams: the M9700 combination device from K&K, which as the top model combines the delivery of current surges that are harmless to the marten via the unique multi-contact high-voltage brushes with the use of ultrasound. As a battery-powered device, it can also be used completely independently and is therefore also ideally suited for electric vehicles.
18. March, 2020
We are here for you!
We’re continuing to run our business, but taking the necessary safety precautions to keep you and us protected.
We’ve been thinking a lot about you lately because of the occasion – our customers, our employees, our entire community.
While most of our operations continue as normal, health and safety are at the heart of every decision we make. It is also important to us to help reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Thus, we have equipped our office as well as warehouse facilities with disinfectant sprays, disposable gloves and cleaning wipes. We have sent some of our employees to the home office, so that each office is now occupied by only one person. In addition, we keep our distance from each other and used any technical means to communicate.
If you have any questions, you can still reach us at our phone number +49 (0) 6202 85 932 0 or in writing at info@kuk-marderabwehr.de. Stay healthy!
12. April, 2018
AUTO MOTOR UND SPORT
The right protection against martens is under constant discussion in the press – just like our products from K&K. The magazine ‘Auto Motor und Sport’ wrote about this in their latest special feature ‘Fit in den Frühling’ (‘Fit in the Spring’).
Being one of the oldest companies in marten defence as well as the most innovative, we enjoy great confidence among both consumers and the press. Just this March, ‘auto motor und sport’ magazine introduced two of our devices in its special supplement called ‘Fit in the spring’. This was where our huge range of products came into play, ranging from cheap but effective entry-level equipment to high-end solutions that can handle even the most aggressive martens. In September 2017, AUTO BILD reported on some of our high-tech features such as the unique multi-contact high-voltage brushes, and soon afterwards its sister magazine AUTO BILD ALLRAD ran a prize draw for of one of our flagship devices. Also in the autumn, AUTO BILD REISEMOBIL reported on the fact that motorhome owners in particular appreciate effective protection against martens because of the length of time their vehicles stand idle. The magazine REISEMOBIL INTERNATIONAL tested our M9700 battery-powered model in its October issue and praised its many positive features.
13. November, 2018
NEW TRAINING AREA AT K&K HEADQUARTERS.
With the construction of the new hall at K&K’s headquarters in Oftersheim, not only has significantly more storage space been created, but also a new training area. This means that in the future, employee training sessions or customer meetings, for example, can take place right in the center of daily activity.
29. October, 2017
WE ARE DOUBLING OUR WAREHOUSE SPACE
New hall completed
Sophisticated technologies, high product availability and a broad range of models – with an additional warehouse, we can now implement three of our principles even better than before. In the spring of 2017, we held a ground-breaking ceremony for our new warehouse, located right next to K&K’s head office in Oftersheim.
. The move between the two buildings, which are now located side-by-side, was completed at the end of August. There is now twice as much storage space as before. And what’s more, thanks to the generously-proportioned new workshop, our prototype assembly team is now able to work in better conditions at increased capacity. It all helps us to create the right circumstances for future growth and for turning innovative ideas into commercially viable products.