Union Knopf GmbH is well-known as one of the international top-offerors in the field of fashionable clothing fasteners and accessories.
Altogether, more than 700 employees -working at the various producing units and subsidiaries of Union Knopf GmbH all over the world - guarantee that the many millions of buttons and accessories arrive at their destination world-wide.
The same product feeling and know-how is bestowed upon the collection of furniture handles and knobs.

Union Knopf GmbH looks back on almost half a century of successful company history.

1911
The company is founded in Berlin as a trading corporation with its own manufacture

1938
The company receives the name UNION KNOPF Ehrich & Co.

1950
Registration under its new business name Union Knopf GmbH

1959
Resumption of its own button production at Bielefeld

1964
Foundation of Celler Modeknopf GmbH

1971
Foundation of PSW-Knopf GmbH

1972
Bouton Helvetia SA Egliswil is taken over

1975
The production of furniture fittings goes into operation

1988
Foundation of UNION PRO FORM GmbH

1990
Acquisition of the company Matheisen & Co. GmbH

1991
Foundation of UNION PRO TEC GmbH

1996
Foundation of UNION KNOPF Polska Sp.z.o.o.

1997
All these companies merge into one large organisation, the UNION KNOPF-Group

1999
Foundation of UNION KNOPF France S.A.R.L. and UNION KNOPF (HK) Limited

2001
Union Knopf GmbH is expanding on a global basis and switching the points for the future.

2002
Foundation of UNION KNOPF Romania S.R.L.

2004
Foundation of UNION KNOPF (Shanghai)