HKS GmbH is an industrial manufacturer and distributor of compensators and hoses headquartered in Rostock, operating production, sales and administration at its main site and sales branches in Neustadt and Warendorf. Its product range includes, among others, bellows compensators, lens compensators, rubber compensators, hoses as well as fabric compensators, flanges and pipe components. Main customer groups are machinery, shipbuilding and plant engineering; HKS supplies about 5,000 customers in over 100 countries. The company positions itself as one of Europe’s leading manufacturers for single-item to small-series production and estimates its European market share at approximately 2–5%. The corporate group also has an additional production site in Litomerice (HKS-CZ) as a legally independent sister company.
Industrielle Herstellung von und der Vertrieb mit Schläuchen und Kompensatoren, die Übernahme von diesbezüglichen Industrievertretungen.
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Source: German Commercial Register (Handelsregister) Rostock Local Court, HRB 10928 (as of 5 November 2026)
| Name | Type | City |
|---|---|---|
| Frank Hunold | Geschäftsführer(in) | Rellingen |
| Andy Weber | Geschäftsführer(in) | Rostock |
Source: German Commercial Register (Handelsregister) Rostock Local Court, HRB 10928 (as of 5 November 2026)
| Date | Event Type | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 01.09.2010 | Gesellschaftsvertrag amended | Gesellschaftsvertrag |
| 02.12.2008 | Gesellschaftsvertrag amended | Gesellschaftsvertrag |
| 25.11.2008 | Business Address Registered | Schonenfahrerstraße 1, 18057 Rostock |
| Date | Type | Change | Total Capital |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01.09.2010 | Capital Increase | +923.000 € | 1.000.000 € |
| 25.11.2008 | Capital Decrease | -73.000 € | 77.000 € |
| 12.06.2008 | Share Capital Set | — | 150.000 DM |
Source: German Commercial Register (Handelsregister) Rostock Local Court, HRB 10928 (as of 5 November 2026)
| Year | Revenue | Profit | Balance | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Rohergebnis€6.7M2 | €1,250,706 | €8,781,044 | 58 |
| 2023 | Rohergebnis€7.2M2 | €1,737,745 | €9,281,615 | 56 |
| 2022 | Rohergebnis€6.5M2 | €1,273,979 | €7,719,852 | 57 |
| 2021 | Rohergebnis€4.9M2 | €456,929 | €6,641,623 | 58 |
| 2020 | Rohergebnis€5.2M2 | €668,892 | €6,895,576 | 61 |
| 2019 | Rohergebnis€5.4M2 | €622,285 | €6,235,897 | 61 |
| 2018 | Rohergebnis€5.2M2 | €644,995 | €6,033,664 | — |
| 2017 | Rohergebnis€5.1M2 | €911,640 | €5,932,699 | 59 |
| 2016 | Rohergebnis€2.7M2 | €93,913 | €5,023,983 | 48 |
| 2015 | small company1 | -€191,415 | €5,801,789 | 45 |
1 Small companies are not required to publish a profit-and-loss statement (§ 326 (1) HGB). The figure shown is the statutory ceiling under § 267 HGB where the balance-sheet total makes it binding — a company may exceed at most one of the three size criteria.
2 Rohergebnis nach § 276 HGB: Umsatzerlöse abzüglich Materialaufwand bzw. Herstellungskosten. Kleine und mittelgroße Kapitalgesellschaften dürfen diese Posten zusammenfassen; die Umsatzerlöse selbst sind dann nicht veröffentlicht und liegen über dem Rohergebnis.
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Source: German Commercial Register (Handelsregister) Rostock Local Court, HRB 10928 (as of 5 November 2026)
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