Company History from 1950 to 1970: The Beginning

• 1950s: Wet-process shotcrete application developed.

• 1958: Karl Schlecht founded KS-Maschinenbau in Germany; eventually renamed Putzmeister (German for “plaster master”).
  
  

• 1960s: Dry-process rotary gun developed.

• 1961: Karl Schlecht moves his operations to a small factory he called "Putzmeister-Werk Maschinenfabrik Gmbh".
  Construction of the first section of Factory I in Filderstadt near Stuttgart airport
  
  

• 1965: Manufacture of Gypsomat, the world’s first automatic and continuously working plaster machine for gypsum plaster, revolutionising plastering technique of the day

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