This is where it all began: In the garage at Karlstraße 7 in Ispringen, Werner Koch invested a lot of hard work, sweat and passion into his first devices for dosing, mixing and conveying plastic materials. With years of experience in the field of construction, he turned his ideas from theory into practice. The numerous patents and industrial property rights are still the basis for KOCH-TECHNIK's existing expertise today. Today, Prof. Dr h.c. Werner Koch, founder and managing partner of Werner Koch Maschinentechnik GmbH, who has turned a one-man operation into a globally active company with more than 200 employees, is one of the most successful and influential minds in the plastics industry.

In 1996, KOCH-Technik opened its first plant in Ahmedabad, India, with joint venture partner Prasad-Koch Group Ltd.

Following the expansion, a new production hall was built for dryer construction in the neighbouring municipality of Göbrichen in order to meet the increasing requirements and the particularly successful start-up of the dryer series. Approx. 4,000 m² of production space with state-of-the-art equipment is now available for the construction of the pellet dryers to optimise production.

On 26 June 2008, Prof. h.c. Werner Koch receives an honorary doctorate from the St. Petersburg Academy of Education for his achievements in the field of production organisation. For more than ten years, Werner Koch has been offering St. Petersburg students from the Mechanical Engineering for Plastics Technology programme the opportunity to complete a ten-day internship in Germany. The Russian students go through an extensive programme with training courses, factory tours at companies in the plastics industry and technical discussions with experts. The opportunity to complete this internship in Germany is a great source of motivation for the students every year.

In 2018, KOCH-Technik acquired a majority shareholding in the Mexican company GiTamsa, based in Querétaro, with which it had been working successfully since its foundation in 2011. The new sales and training centre in Querétaro was opened this year. KOCH-Technik has already acquired another property in Saltillo (near Monterrey) for the opening of a further sales office and TechCentre in the north of Mexico in order to expand its market presence there.

Alex Koch, Werner Koch's third eldest son, becomes managing partner of Werner Koch Maschinentechnik alongside his father.