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Heckler & Koch vs Izhevsk Mechanical Plant

Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.

Izhevsk Mechanical Plant is the older of the two, founded in 1942 — 7 years before Heckler & Koch.

Founded
1949
1942
Status
Active
Active
Headquarters
Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany
Izhevsk, Russia
Industry
weapons industry
weapons industry
Employees
923
7,000
Legal form
Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
open joint-stock company
Parent
Not recorded
Kalashnikov Concern

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on Heckler & Koch and Izhevsk Mechanical Plant.