A new, energy-saving dehydration plant is put into operation.

The development and construction of the world's first energy-saving three-step pressurized rectification plant for high-quality alcohol is completed.

The company begins building up the marketing of ethanol for industrial and technical uses outside of the federal monopoly.

KWST builds and opens up first hydroselection rectification plant on the Continent.

The factory, destroyed several times during the war, is rebuilt.

With the establishment of the Spirits Monopoly Administration of the German Reich, KWST became the contractor for the region of Northern Germany.

The patent for manufacturing fertilizer out of stillage is registered.

The company property in Hanover Misburg is acquired and becomes home to Europe's first molasses distillery, along with the related purification plants and the ethanol storage tank.

The wine trader Johann Wilhelm Kraul and his partner Friedrich Ludwig Wilkening establish the company Kraul und Wilkening KG as a contract purification distillery.