1966-1996: Integration in the Freudenberg Group, special challenges and records: Klüber Lubrication attains one of the leading positions on the world market.

New technologies and innovations need optimally tailored specialty lubricants: Guided by this maxim and in close cooperation with leading companies from all sectors of industry, Klüber Lubrication develops highly efficient solutions – back then as well as now. With this in mind, Theodor Klüber and Richard Freudenberg, the managing director of the company of the same name, the worldwide market leader in seals, were both equally inspired by the idea of bringing both companies together. On a personal level as well, the two committed democrats and pacifists were close. As a result, Theodor Klüber, who himself was without heirs, found an optimum succession arrangement for his company. On 9 August 1966 the take-over is agreed.

To meet the highest requirements, Klüber Lubrication tests its products in special test facilities and under the toughest conditions. The company set up a test laboratory with 20 test rigs for the purpose back in 1979. This has now grown to its current size of over 550 square metres with more than 110 test rigs – many of them geared to customer-specific requirements. Klüber Lubrication now operates its own development centrese on four continents.

For the Paris-Dakar rally Klüber Lubrication puts up its own team and tests specialty lubricants for the gearbox over the 14,000 kilometres through the desert. With success: the two Unimogs of the Klüber Capito team win the prestigious race in 1985.

1996 to today: Global growth, modernisation and precisely tailored specialty lubricants for all applications