HISTORY

Kärntner Montanindustrie GmbH (KMI) was founded in 1932. Over decades, we have earned a reputation as a world leader in the production of micaceous iron oxide pigments for protective coatings. Thanks to our know-how, production technology, and collaboration with partner companies, we have been able to further expand this position and open up new market segments and markets for additional industrial minerals.

OUR GOAL

Our declared goal is to set the benchmark in the areas of innovation, technical support, product quality, supply security, occupational safety, and the environment, as well as in terms of fairness.

In addition to the core areas of production technology and continuous quality development, our management also places great value on the further expansion of customer relationships.

MISSION STATEMENT

Solution orientation – our key to success

The long-standing company Kärntner Montanindustrie GmbH strives for economic success to ensure the long-term partnership with customers and employees.

Our goal is to offer satisfactory solutions for all our customers’ tasks in the field of functional fillers while providing the greatest possible protection for people and the environment.

We want to achieve this by:

  • expanding personal relationships with our main raw material suppliers to strategically secure raw material sources.
  • being aware that sustainable success for the company is closely linked to creating value for the people at KMI. Therefore, we promote activities based on convinced and self-confident employees with solid professional training and human-character quality.
  • working according to a sustainable and high quality standard, fulfilling our binding obligations, improving our environmental performance, and continuously further developing our processes.
  • working on the continuous further development of application technology through a targeted expansion of the knowledge base of our employees.

OUR EMPLOYEES

Working with passion

In our company, well-educated and motivated employees are the key for economic success. KMI’s target is to keep up a positive working atmosphere by satisfied employees. Beside an adequate salary and sufficient qualification on the job, we are specially focused on continuously improving the team spirit. The employee’s development and promotion is an ongoing process, we are always working on.

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