Kramer Industries

Highly Engaged Employees

Established in 1911. At Kramer Industries, the company recognize the difficulty, expense and lost time that you face in finding the precise combination of equipment, supplies and processes to achieve your desired results. The company has systems in place that guarantee you will see the end results right from the start. In 1911, Harry Kramer set up... a small factory in the basement of his home to manufacture chamois cases for pocket watches. (Chamois is soft leather that is obtained from a mountain goat.) At that time, better watches were sold in chamois cases to protect the watch inside and also act as a polishing device. Harry's cases were very well liked and business flourished. After many years, a man who desperately needed chamois buffing wheels to polish jewelry approached Harry Kramer. Harry's supplier was not able to meet the demand, leaving Harry to produce the buffing wheels himself. Harry had never made a buffing wheel before but accepted the challenge. When pocket watches went out of style, Harry began to make chamois and cloth polishing wheels for the jewelry industry. His son Herbert, then in his late teens, suggested that since they were already calling on the jewelry trade to sell their polishing wheels, why not build the polishing machines also? And so the production of Kramer started.Read More