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Our History

For more than 80 years, Kuhn Rikon has maintained a lively dialogue with cooks who love to cook and appreciate the convenience of kitchenware designed to make their work easier. Those who delight in entertaining and take pride in a beautifully decorated table will definitely find appeal in Kuhn Rikon products. They are stunningly styled yet superbly functional. Our DUROMATIC Pressure Cookers and Kuhn Rikon Kitchen Tools are just two examples of our Swiss innovation.

Historical Timeline

1819 The establishment of a spinning mill brings the industrial age to the Toss Valley, Switzerland.
1899 The Rykon Mill is converted to metalworking. The Kindlimann brothers found a copper and tin smithy in Rikon which makes cookware.
1926 Heinrich Kuhn purchases the former copper and steel cookware factory.
1927 The new electric stoves require a new kind of cookware. Under the Duro trademark, Heinrich Kuhn develops the first cookware that really works.
1949 The DUROMATIC pressure cooker is developed.
1950-
1969 		The DUROMATIC brand becomes synonymous with pressure cookers in general. Starting with this very successful product, Kuhn Rikon begins to export cookware.
1975 Kuhn Rikon celebrates its 50th anniversary.
1987 Kuhn Rikon becomes the first Swiss consumer goods manufacturer to receive the SQS quality certificate from the Swiss Association for Quality Assurance.
1988 Kuhn Rikon expands its presence in the US market by establishing a subsidiary based in Enfield, CT.
1996 Kuhn Rikon celebrates its 70th anniversary.
1999 Kuhn Rikon Corp. moves it's headquarters to the West Coast setting new records in Duromatic Pressure Cookers Sales in the USA.
2006 Kuhn Rikon Switzerland celebrates its 80 anniversary and sets up a museum in its factory about the evolution of cooking.
2008 Kuhn Rikon celebrating 20 years of product innovation in the US.

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