Inventiveness or hard graft – these were the alternatives facing 17-year-old Willy Rinklin in 1969 after he and his brother promised that they would deal with the leaves in the vineyard while their parents were away. The young agricultural machine mechanic constructed a leaf trimmer with which the time-consuming foliage work could be completed in a single day!

He continued to make further developments – initially while still completing his education – until Willy Rinklin and his brother finally founded their own agricultural machine workshop in Eichstetten in 1979. The works, which was also the agency for Dexheimer vineyard tractors and Clemens vineyard equipment, moved to the newly created Gewerbepark Breisgau industrial estate in 1993, where from 1998 they concentrated more on their own developments for viniculture. The success of these new devices demanded ever more employees and space, so that they regularly had to build and expand.

KMS Rinklin - Model DL 3000 H -Vario Vine-Tying Machine