Amazons works
| Amazonen-Werke H. Dreyer GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1883 |
| Seat | Hasbergen , Germany |
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| Number of employees | 1,900 |
| sales | EUR 481 million |
| Branch | Agricultural engineering |
| Website | www.amazone.de |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
The Amazons-Werke H. Dreyer GmbH & Co. KG (proper spelling: Amazone ) is a manufacturer of agriculture and landscape equipment . The main plant of the company founded by Heinrich Dreyer in 1883 is located in Hasbergen -Gaste, Lower Saxony .
History of the name
Heinrich Dreyer wanted to describe his machines with the brand name "Amazone" as beautiful and strong with reference to the mythical women people of the Amazons .
history
Founder Heinrich Dreyer started with the production of grain cleaning machines in 1883 , later plows , cultivators , potato sorters and in 1915 the first fertilizer spreaders were added. Dreyer also started exporting early on , so in 1906 the first grain cleaning machines were sold to Valparaíso in Chile. The first potato harvesters came onto the market in 1942, followed by seed drills in 1949 and manure spreaders in 1959. The two-disc fertilizer spreader ZA and the seed drill D4, with which Amazone achieved market leadership in this segment, were very successful in the 1960s. In 1967 the entry into soil cultivation took place, Amazone was the first manufacturer to develop power take-off shaft-driven soil cultivation equipment that could be combined with a seed drill. First the vibrating harrow , then the rotary cultivator and finally the rotary harrow were added to the product range. Later, after German reunification , further passive tillage machines were brought onto the market, after the BBG tillage equipment in Leipzig was bought in 1998 . In 1987 the first precision air seeder from Amazone appeared.
The Amazone Foundation was founded in 2008 and in the following year it was the first to award young talent for their theses in the field of agricultural engineering. In 2009 Amazone started assembling large seed drills at the new location in Hude- Altmoorhausen and began producing self-propelled field sprayers called Pantera in the Tecklenburg district of Leeden in Tecklenburger Land . In addition, an as was BoniRob designated autonomous field robot for individual plant-based experimental research presented, in cooperation with the University of Osnabrück , the Robert Bosch GmbH developed and other partners.
In January 2010 a new fertilizer spreader test hall was put into operation in Hasbergen-Gaste. With this it is possible for the company to test fertilizer spreaders up to a working width of 72 meters as well as to examine new types of fertilizer for their material and spreading properties.
In February 2011 Amazone sold the warehouse technology division. In September 2016, Amazone acquired the plow production from the insolvent manufacturer Vogel & Noot . On January 1, 2019, Amazone took over the chipping technology division of Maschinenfabrik Schmotzer. The company is still based in Bad Windsheim as Schmotzer Hacktechnik GmbH & Co. KG .
Corporate structure
The company's shares are entirely owned by the two Dreyer families. The managing directors are Christian Dreyer and Justus Dreyer. The total number of employees is 1,900, and sales in 2018 were € 481 million. It exports to over 70 countries, the export share is 80% (as of 2018). Amazone's customers are farmers, agricultural contractors, municipalities and related areas.
Locations
Production locations are - in addition to the main plant in Hasbergen-Gaste - at the following locations:
- Hude near Oldenburg : active tillage
- Altmoorhausen : sowing technology
- Forbach ( France ): municipal equipment
- Leipzig : BBG tillage equipment (formerly Rudolf Sack Leipzig ): passive tillage and "UG" crop protection sprayer
- Leeden (City of Tecklenburg ): Amazone Technologie Leeden (ATL), direct sowing technology, trailed crop protection sprayer and fertilizer spreaders as well as self-propelled sprayers
- Samara ( Russia ): GAG Eurotechnik Samara
- Mosonmagyaróvár (Hungary) : plows (formerly Vogel & Noot Mezögépgyar Kft.)
- Bramsche : Competence center for crop protection technology opened at the end of 2018 directly on the A1 motorway.
- Bad Windsheim : Schmotzer Hacktechnik GmbH & Co.KG (100% subsidiary of the Amazone Group), row hoe for mechanical weed control
Amazone has four branches in Germany: in Rendsburg , Gottin , Winningen / Mosel and Gablingen .
There are sales offices in China , Great Britain , France , Poland , Ukraine , Hungary and Russia .
Product range
Amazone produces tillage machines , seed drills , precision seeders, fertilizer spreaders and crop protection sprayers in various designs, as well as machines for park and green space maintenance and winter service. In parallel to the production of agricultural machinery, Amazone carries out arable farming projects and trials. Another mainstay was the planning and construction of multi-purpose warehouses until 2011.
The new test hall for fertilizer spreaders and fertilizers
Amazone ZA-M 1001
Precision seeders
Drill mounted on a rotary harrow, a compact disc harrow in the background
Pulled fertilizer spreader ZG-B with a hopper volume of up to 8,200 liters and spreading widths of up to 52 m
Amazone Profihopper
Self-propelled crop protection sprayer Pantera 4502
literature
- 125 years of Amazone . DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-7690-0709-1 , 147 pages; m. numerous mostly color.
- Klaus Dreyer: The AMAZONE Chronicle . Landwirtschaftsverlag GmbH, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-7843-3229-3 , 151 pages
- Klaus Dreyer: The history of BBG - from Rudolph Sack to Amazone . DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-7690-0750-3 , 180 pages
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Amazone sales rise to a record high in 2018 , accessed on May 29, 2019
- ↑ Klaus Dreyer: The AMAZONE Chronicle , p. 14.
- ↑ Agrarheute.com about the history of Amazone precision sowing ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Amazon report on the sale of the storage division
- ↑ Amazone buys plow production from Vogel & Noot , at www.topagrar.com , accessed on September 30, 2016
- ↑ Amazone takes over chopping technology from Schmotzer , at www.agrarheute.de , accessed on November 2, 2018
- ↑ Factory branches
Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 14.5 ″ N , 7 ° 56 ′ 19.5 ″ E