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CMC-KUHNKE, Inc is a manufacturing company headquartered in Berlin, Germany and Albany, New York, with sales offices Mexico, Tunisia and Madison, Wisconsin. Family owned and operated, CMC-KUHNKE engineers testing and inspection equipment and software for the metal packaging industry. Their measurement solutions include manual, semi-automated and fully-automated versions that can be adapted to fit food, beverage or aerosol cans, and can be installed in-line at production or filling facilities.

History
In 1971 Manfred Kuhnke initiated the development of quality control equipment for cans with the introduction of the DP1 - Seam Projector. From this beginning, a comprehensive product line of can and end gauging and testing equipment has developed.

In 1974 Container Machinery Corporation (CMC) began providing machinery for canmaking on an international basis. In 1988 CMC developed and released the award winning SEAMscan double seam inspection system. Combining precision measurement fixtures with user-friendly computer software, SEAMscan brought modern computer speed and accuracy to can seam inspection and statistical process control (SPC). 1995 began a new era in double seam inspection when CMC unveiled the world’s first fully-automated double seam inspection system. Shown for the first time at Cannex, the autoS.E.A.M.qc performed a complete beverage can seam teardown in one minute. The autoS.E.A.M.qc is now known as the MARS-SEAM.

Pressed to meet the increasing worldwide demand for his manual and semi-automated can inspection systems, Manfred Kuhnke expands his operations and moves his business into a larger manufacturing facility in 1997. On January 1, 2003, Kuhnke retired from his long career as master gauge-maker, and his company was purchased by father-son team Heinz Grossjohann and Alex Grossjohann, owners of CMC.

In 2004 KUHNKE Metrology GmbH and Container Machinery Corp. emerged as a unified organization with offices in New York and Berlin, becoming CMC-KUHNKE.

In 2005 CMC-KUHNKE installs the first Fully-Automated Seam Inspection System, the MARS-SEAM.

In 2008 CMC-KUHNKE opens new branches in Madison, Wisconsin, and Mexico City, Mexico.

2011 will mark the 40th Anniversary of CMC-KUHNKE.