our idea
We bring production and crafts back to the city. The StrandFabrik offers companies, founders and visionaries easy access to people, knowledge, production space, machines, crafts and industry. Through variable innovation areas and spaces as well as production possibilities, everyone has the opportunity to realize their own dreams and projects.
Our function
Initiator for foundation
Industry- and craft-oriented founders are given space at the StrandFabrik to realize their own ideas and projects that go beyond desk work. We are the only industrial area in Kiel to offer variable innovation space and rooms as well as production possibilities, share resources, machines and knowledge and thus strengthen innovations.
Initiator for encounters
StrandFabrik as a place for encounters. A place where you can work, think, create, tinker, make, support, fail, believe and simply be together. Here, hobby mechanics meet students of the Raceyard team of the University of Applied Sciences, cargo bicycles are created that can be converted into a normal bicycle with just one click in the immediate vicinity of a mining farm that uses the waste heat to heat the StrandFabrik. Working in many directions, coming together in one place – that is the StrandFabrik.
Initiator for innovations
Innovations are the key to growth, employment and sustainability – both in terms of the durability of business operations and in the area of cost reductions and resource conservation through reduced consumption of energy, raw materials or water. In the future, we want to ensure a sustainable industrial society by implementing CO2-neutral technologies.
Our values
Mutual assistance
We believe that our corporate culture of boundless collegiality is a competitive advantage for us, and that’s why we spare no effort to promote and maintain it.
Adventurous, creative & open-minded
Although one should never be reckless, one should take risks and welcome creativity. We don’t want to be complacent and content with the status quo – we want more.
Responsibility
We are always expanding our skills, experience and perspectives through our local commitment and dedication to environmental protection. We take care to use materials sparingly and conserve resources wherever possible.
Founder

Lukas Zarling
Founder and Managing Partner
Lukas is a qualified mechanical engineer and founded StrandFabrik GmbH in 2020. Here he is the contact person for, among other things, representing the company externally, networking and driving the qualitative and quantitative growth of the company.
When Lukas is not at StrandFabrik, he can certainly be found on the water – just as a true Kiel sprat should be.