KaVo.

KaVo's German history page says Alois Kaltenbach founded the company in 1909 in Berlin-Steglitz. Richard Voigt became a partner in 1919, the KaVo name was adopted, and the firm moved to Potsdam. In 1946 the headquarters moved to Biberach. The English company page says products are developed and manufactured in Biberach and Warthausen and that the headquarters city is Biberach an der Riss. The history page dates a sterilizable handpiece to 1928, the company's own turbine, the Borden-Air 60, to 1958, and a Leutkirch dental-technology plant to 1959, when it says employment was 750.

The same history dates the Warthausen equipment plant to 1976 and says KaVo became part of Danaher in 2004, part of Envista when that dental group left Danaher in 2019, and part of Planmeca in 2022. Envista's 7 September 2021 release said it had a binding agreement to sell the KaVo treatment-unit and instrument business to Planmeca, that the business was founded in 1909 and headquartered in Biberach, and that it then had about 1,500 employees and a presence in more than 60 countries. The release also said Envista's imaging business that used the KaVo name on some products would stay with Envista. A KaVo treatment unit after the sale is a Planmeca-group product. A KaVo-badged imaging device may not be.

The English company page describes treatment units as the ergonomic package and says instruments are made in Germany. A KaVo article says instruments are manufactured at the Biberach plant with a manufacturing depth of at least 95 percent, meaning most of up to 50 components of an instrument are made there. That depth figure is the company's. The EXPERTmatic E25 L is cited there as a speed-increasing handpiece with more than 100,000 units produced. Treat that count as KaVo's.

A treatment unit, a turbine, and a lab bench from the old Leutkirch site are different products. Estetica units appear on the 2015 history line. Everest CAD/CAM is a 2002 history line, not a promise that the current catalog still sells that mill. Ask the quote for the current unit name and for who services it after the Planmeca transfer.

KaVo suits a practice buying a German treatment unit or instrument and willing to track whether service now runs through Planmeca. Chairs and units are on the chair guide.

Handpieces are on the air and electric handpiece guide. Carbide burs, if that is the rotary purchase, are on the carbide bur guide.

The Warthausen plant is the equipment factory dated 1976. Instruments are described as Biberach production. A handpiece can be replaced without replacing the unit, and the coupling still has to match.

Imaging that once carried a KaVo badge was excluded from the 2021 sale. Do not assume a sensor or CBCT with an old KaVo logo transfers with the chair.

The company page places headquarters in Biberach an der Riss and manufacturing in Biberach and Warthausen. Ask the current Planmeca or KaVo office which warehouse ships parts for your serial number.

The 1,500-employee and 60-country figures are from Envista's September 2021 release, before closing. They describe the business being sold, not a clinical specification.