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Innovation drives us – and now it’s officially recognized! The BSFZ Seal from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research confirms our commitment to innovation and sustainable solutions. This is an important step toward transitioning our formulations to eco-friendly raw materials and making production processes even more efficient.
Since 1926, KEBO has been developing and manufacturing application-specific specialty chemicals for industrial process plants. Our solutions help companies control foaming, prevent deposits, optimize industrial cleaning processes, minimize corrosion, stabilize water systems, and support crystallization processes. In this way, we help make production facilities more efficient, safer, and more economical.
Our portfolio includes defoamers, antiscalants (deposit inhibitors), industrial chemical cleaning systems, corrosion protection, water treatment and biocides, process additives, as well as solutions for crystallization processes – including crystallization aids, viscosity reduction, and decolorization. All products are tailored to the specific application, taking into account the process medium, process step, temperature, construction materials, and operating conditions.
KEBO supports companies in the sugar, salt, starch, potato, vegetable, and fruit processing industries, as well as the yeast, fermentation, bioethanol, and biogas industries. Further fields of application include water and wastewater treatment, as well as process industries such as steel, chemicals, power generation, refineries, mechanical engineering, galvanizing, and the pulp and paper industry.
In addition to developing and manufacturing high-quality specialty chemicals, we support our customers with laboratory analyses, application engineering, and personal technical consulting. Together, we develop solutions precisely tailored to each individual process – from analysis and product selection to the optimization of ongoing plant operations.
Individually tailored solutions for perfect cleaning and effective protection against corrosion and deposits. A success story in research and development.
Whether in the steel or food processing industry (such as in cane/beet sugar productions, in potato,corn, wheat-processing industries, fruit preparation, distilleries, fermentation, biogas plants, etc.), in power plants, refineries or the chemical industry - our personalized service is as responsive as our individual products. Because the interests of our customers are the focus of everything we do.
In our laboratories, we use state-of-the-art methods and procedures to analyze the exact composition of substances and substance mixtures in order to identify the tailor-made product from our specialty chemicals portfolio.
Always with the clear goal of extending equipment life, increasing quality and safety, and reducing maintenance costs.
From the very beginning, it was one idea (1926) above all that shaped our current corporate DNA. After all, anyone who deals with rust protection by nature is committed to maintaining the value and care of their customers' equipment. Over the years, this aspiration has not only given rise to considerable chemotechnical knowhow, but perhaps an even more important quality: the ability to listen.
It is not by chance that KEBO sees itself today as a solution provider. And above all as a partner with special connections to its customers, with a great deal of commitment and personal consultation in solving very individual challenges. In 1926, Keller & Bohacek was founded as "Rostschutz GmbH" with a focus on the construction of galvanizing plants in Halle. At an early stage, our founder Dr. Alfred Keller, an engineer by passion, decided to enter the production of pickling inhibitors and thus laid the foundation for today's orientation as a specialized chemical company. Alfred Keller's daughter Renate joined the company in the 1950s as a chemist. From then on, she was the driving force behind the development of innovations and was regarded as the "heart and soul" of KEBO.
Parallel to the development of products for the chemical industry, the steel industry, and sugar factories, KEBO expanded its expertise into cooling water and boiler feed water treatment. Our extensive experience in corrosion protection and scale prevention led to the development of effective water treatment products and boiler scale inhibitors.
Today, KEBO is a global partner to numerous process industries – from sugar, starch, and potato processing to fermentation, bioethanol, and biogas, as well as steel, water treatment, chemicals, and the pulp and paper industry.
What began in 1926 with protecting industrial equipment against corrosion has evolved into a broadly positioned specialty chemicals company for industrial processes. Yet our guiding principle remains unchanged: protecting equipment, improving processes, and developing sustainable solutions together with our customers.
The products shown on our website are only a selection of our entire product range. There is no universal remedy for the rapid removal of impurities. Some can be removed well with alkaline agents, others better in the acidic range. The large variety of conceivable cleaning problems and the large number of additives, inhibitors and ready-to-use cleaning solutions offered by us make it advisable to obtain detailed advice before starting cleaning.
The same applies to inhibitors, defoamers, scale preventers, corrosion inhibitors, pickling inhibitors, etc. Depending on the plant, material, product and the type of boiler/cooling water is used, different individual challenges arise. We are well equipped for them.
Talk to us, we will be happy to help!
On request, we can analyze deposits in our laboratory and develop a cleaning strategy based on our many years of experience, taking into account the conditions on site.