Howden Turbo GmbH is a German engineering company, based in Frankenthal in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
[2] It was founded in 1899 by the merger of three family businesses by Georg Adam Kühnle, Hans Kopp and Rudolf Kausch.
[4] The company "Turbo Group" and the Frankfurt private equity firm ECM acquired Kühnle, Kopp & Kausch in March 2005.
[7] In October 2015, Siemens Power Generation announced its intention to relocate the production of turbines to the Czech plant in Brno for cost reasons; that would have meant cutting back 210 of the then 600 jobs.
Following fierce protests and many discussions, including with the works council and IG Metall, Siemens Power Generation then began selling the complete plant from the beginning of 2016.