Our history

- - - - -

Building on more than 130 years of experience, our mission then as now is to promote the quality of milk and dairy products and to contribute to food safety for the purpose of consumer protection.

muva kempten GmbH forms the heart of the Bavarian Milk & Dairy Center (Milchwirtschaftlichen Zentrum Bayern), which is a unique center of excellence in Europe for the dairy and agricultural industries. Interesting fact: muva is an acronym from the German name of the mid 20th Century entity - Milchwirtschaftlichen Untersuchungs- und Versuchsanstalt Kempten / Allgäu (Dairy Research and Testing Station)

19th Century

1887

1887 Founded in Memmingen as the Dairy Research Station (Milchwirtschaftliche Untersuchungsstation)

20th Century

1925

Relocation to Kempten into the House
of Dairy (Haus der Milchwirtschaft)

1942

Expansion and renaming as the Dairy Research and Testing Station
Kempten / Allgäu.

1954

Move into the muva building on Hirnbeinstraße.

21st Century

2004

Official opening of the muva kempten
location on Ignaz-Kiechle-Straße

2016

muva kempten becomes
muva kempten GmbH

Present