1889
The cousins Filip Porges and August Lederer founded Brünn-Königsfelder Maschinenfabrik Lederer & Porges for metalworking and engineering production.
1890
Business entered in the Commercial Register. The first tank car produced. The first patent granted for a steam boiler.
1893
The company became part of the Wagon Factories Association. The first fire in the factory.
1898
The company participated in the exhibition in Vienna.
1903
Business incorporated into the Simmerng company from Vienna. The first bridge (for Serbia) and the first drilling tower were built.
1905
Nine-hour working day introduced.
1909
Oxy-acetylene welding and oxygen burning used for the first time in production.
1910
Registration of products for patents, e.g. heating of outlets for discharge with steam, hot water, vertical cylindrical countercurrent liquid cooler.
1912
Purchase of patent for the production of two-stroke diesel engines.
1913
Construction of new grey cast iron foundry.
1920
Major fire (the fifth). The model warehouse and workshop burned down. Crane production started.
1927
Split from Simmering (although it still owns 80 % of shares). Královopolská továrna na stroje a vagony, joint stock company, is set up.
1928
The 15 000th railway wagon is produced.
1933
Královopolská saved from closure by a large order and supplies for the USSR.
1934
The bridge works produced the first welded railway bridge (for Banská Bystrica).
1935
The enterprise is incorporated into the První brněnská strojírna concern, including a newly defined production programme.
1936
Death of founder August Lederer. The enterprise is incorporated into the Herrman Göring Werke concern.
1945
The enterprise is nationalised.
1946
The Minister of Industry establishes the enterprise První brněnská a Královopolská strojírna Brno.
1952
State Labour Reserves Vocational College established.
1956
Production of coiled bodies launched.
1958
Pavilion B opened at Brno Exhibition Centre, produced by Královopolská strojírna.
1959
Construction of Homs refinery in Syria.
1963
František Staněk appointed director. Former director J. Pešl appointed Minister of Heavy Engineering.
1964
Thousand-ton press commissioned.
1965
Gold medal from the Leipzig trade fair for the fluid reactor. Thousandth melt from the “Mír” five-ton arc furnace.
1970
Centrifugal cast tubes are produced for the first time.
1971
Antonín Babáček appointed director.
1974
Basrah oil refinery commissioned in Iraq.
1976
Contract signed in Moscow for supplies of 15 steam reforming units to the USSR in 1978-1982 (worth 150 million rubles).
FROM 1980
The company's main fields are equipment for the chemical and petrochemical industry, steel structures and special cranes and supplies for nuclear power plants.
1992
Establishment of joint stock company KRÁLOVOPOLSKÁ, a.s.
2004
The company becomes privately owned.
