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Mankenberg GmbH is a manufacturer of industrial valves and supplies to various industries worldwide. The company’s headquarters are located in Luebeck (in the Federal Land of Schleswig-Holstein).Today the German company is managed by the great-grandson of the founder Gustav Mankenberg and is active in the production of self-contained regulating valves (pressure regulating valves as well as bleeding/venting valves) and – apart from furnishing standard products – it is specialised in tailor-made solutions.HistoryGustav Mankenberg was born on August 12, 1857 in the town of Wittstock on the river Dosse/Germany as eighth child to the self-employed master blacksmith Johann Friedrich Mankenberg. He learnt the trade of a metal craftsman in Berlin, i.e. a craftsman processing metal objects of any kind by shaping, casting, turning and other processing methods.On May 1, 1885 he took over the workshop of the brass founder master Wallen in the town of Heide in the federal Land of Schleswig-Holstein and founded the company Gustav Mankenberg. Mr Mankenberg quickly realised the development of the local market and changed the product line to reducing valves for air and carbonic acid tanks, air pumps etc. and additionally opened a samples stock and a sales warehouse at the Roedingsmarkt avenue in Hamburg.Owing to non-payments caused by an economical slump in the building industry, Gustav Mankenberg was forced to admit a partner from Hamburg to the company in Heide in 1891. However, the co-operation failed.