Kegel, along with leading Ten-pin bowling alley supplier companies like AMF and Brunswick, maintain bowling alley lanes, especially in many of the professional tournaments that take place worldwide. Kegel is the only company in the industry to attain ISO 9001 certification.
Kegel was founded in 1981 by John Davis, Linda Davis, Mark Davis and David Jennings. The first manufacturing building (that is currently a public bowling center) that Kegel used is located in Sebring, Florida. The main manufacturing facility was then transferred in the early 2000's to a state of the art, specially designed 72,000-square-foot (6,700 m2) facility in Lake Wales, Florida.
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Kegel is in the business of researching the problems that exist in the bowling industry, developing a product or service to solve that problem, and making sure to support the customer with the highest of standards.
Kegel's core division of the company designs and manufactures the world's best lane conditioning machines, replacement parts and specialized machinery equipment. The first product to be manufactured was "The Key" which was a small hand operated lane tool used to clean the lanes. Current products that are manufactured at Kegel include innovative lane machines that are cordless and/or run on batteries, which is a step above earlier manufactured lane machines that required physically moving the lane machine from lane to lane and retracting the heavy cords used to power the machines. One of the newest lane machine out is the Kustodian Walker Sport Edition which is a lane conditioning machine that is cordless, runs on a battery and automatically "walks" from lane to lane and virtually conditions the lanes for you.
Kegel also produces other products such as a wide variety of lane conditioners, lane cleaners, cleaner cloths for machines, FIZZION cleaner, REVIVE bowling ball cleaner and Drop 'N Mop Fizzion Technology powered all-purpose floor cleaner.
Over the years, lane software has become available with the help and computer programming skills of Dennis Davis. He has helped develop and write codes for Kegel software such as K.O.S.I. Pro lane pattern software, Pocket K.O.S.I. for pocket PC's, C.A.T.S. (computer aided tracking system) and Kegel Tracker call logging system.