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Izhevsk Mechanical Plant vs Kel-Tec

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 — 49 years before Kel-Tec.

Founded
1942
1991
Status
Active
Active
Headquarters
Izhevsk, Russia
Cocoa, United States
Industry
weapons industry
weapons industry
Founders
Not recorded
George Kellgren
Employees
7,000
Not recorded
Legal form
open joint-stock company
privately held company
Parent
Kalashnikov Concern
Not recorded

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on Izhevsk Mechanical Plant and Kel-Tec.