MBK Maschinenbau GmbH, Kisslegg, Germany will be celebrating its 50th company anniversary this year. In 1961, Georg Pfender started a little machine shop, in which a few years later he designed and built his first reinforcement cage machine for Rinninger, a local concrete pipe producer. This was the beginning of MBK’s success story and the company’ s original product design comprising straight cages was soon extended to bell cages.