NEW PARIS, Ind. - Klaus P. Mueller, a manufacturing pioneer for KMC Controls, passed away July 9, 2006, following a brief illness. He was 78.
Born in Doebeln, Germany, Mueller immigrated to Goshen, Ind., in 1957 with his wife and family. Upon arriving in the United States, he worked for Robertshaw Controls where he met Ken Kreuter (deceased); the two formed Kreuter Manufacturing Co. in New Paris.