About

The Kibbutz Industry Association unites 250 Kibbutz and collective settlement factories that make up 10% of the national industrial sales. The KIA works to promote the industry in Israel in collaboration with the Israel Industrial Association and represents the Kibbutz industries and factories in national establishments including farming and economic.  The KIA activities are divided into three pillars: Human Development, Global Activities, and Innovation and Enterernurialship whose goal is to unite the factories and create opportunities for a better future. The KIA was established in 1962 with over 70% of its presence is in the periphery bridging over the central district with the peripheral.

The Kibbutz Industry Association focuses its activities under five main anchors: innovation and entrepreneurship, international activity, human capital development, corporate responsibility and representation. The association's mission is to assist, encourage, and push for the strengthening and growth of kibbutz industrial enterprises, while providing a quality response to a wide variety of needs, creating connections and opportunities for sustainable development and prosperity.
The union's staff maintains direct and continuous contact with the factories through regular visits, providing a focused response to the needs arising from the field, and making available and connecting state and other assistance tools and channels. The team works to strengthen the kibbutz industrial community, promote leadership, gender equality, and conduct based on corporate responsibility, assist enterprises in breaking into international markets, promote innovation and investments, create partnerships and economic growth engines, and develop new businesses on kibbutzim.

Milestones: 60 years of activity

2022

The Kibbutz Industry Association announces: e-Good Jobs - a combined move to help factories solve the human resource problem. Innovation Leaders Course - To promote

2021

The total sales of the kibbutz industry exceeds the NIS 50 billion

2019

Opening the School for Future Women CEOs in collaboration with the kibbutz movement and the Sopranos community founded by Hannah Radu

2018

First Woman CEO of the Kibbutz Industry Association - Miriam Druck from Kibbutz Yakum

2018

Under the leadership of the association, an agreement was signed for the establishment of a permanent exhibition and a visitor center for agriculture and the

2014

The association is a partner with the KM"A Foundation in initiating and establishing the Kibbutz Nursery Fund, which is a business accelerator for locating and

2012

The union marks 50 years since its inception

2011

The Kibbutz Industrial Association is moving to a new home in the Manufacturers' House

2010

Signing of a merger agreement and joining the Kibbutz Industry Association as an independent association of the Manufacturers' Association

2005

Establishment of a public committee on R&D, exports and human resources to promote common issues that distinguish the kibbutz industry

2003

Sales for export, including overseas operations, pass sales to the domestic market and constitute over 50% of sales. Overseas production activity constitutes 10% of the

2001

The union is leading a struggle to keep kibbutz industrial plants on the map of the periphery and extend their eligibility for capital investment incentive

2000

The "Accession Treaty" of the Kibbutz Industrial Association is signed to the Manufacturers' Association

1996

The Entrepreneurship and Small Business section opens. The association "enters" the Internet "for the purposes of marketing the factories and gathering knowledge about the world"

1995

The union transforms from a unit in the kibbutz movement into a company Ltd. The union begins with a computerized distribution of tenders to factories.

1993

The first 25 collective enterprises are certified according to international ISO standards. 150 factories have boards of directors

1991

The union opens a representative office in Moscow to promote the export of kibbutz industry to Eastern Europe. Establishment of the section for the absorption

1988

The number of enterprises in the union exceeds 300. Kibbutz industry exports cross the $ 1 billion mark

1987

The union issues bonds and raises NIS 32 million that were made available to enterprises in difficulty. The union initiates the establishment of a joint warehouse

1985

The association joins the Agritech Association, which works to promote all agricultural industry companies in Israel

1984

Activity related to the utilization of agricultural waste, the volume of its application company in Betzet is sold to a commercial entity

1981

The number of factories located has exceeded 200. 50 of them are over $ 1 million each. A delegation from the union participates in the

1979

Within the association, there are 7 clubs, stationery and office equipment, gems, irrigation manufacturers, textile manufacturers, optics manufacturers, kibbutz furniture

1978

The International Conference on Quality of Life initiated and produced by the Kibbutz Industry Association

1976

The plastics industry is becoming the largest industry in the union

1975

Establishment of the Kibbutz Institute for Research and Development within the framework of the Kibbutz Industry Association

1974

Kibbutz industry sales exceed the billion mark. Israeli pound

1973

Establishment of a fund for industrial plants beginning with the working class settlement.

1971