Geringhoff (company)
| Carl Geringhoff GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1880 |
| Seat | Ahlen , Germany |
| management | Daniel Hansmeier, Frank Laudehr (Managing Director) |
| Number of employees | 450 (2012) |
| sales | 62.6 million euros (2011) |
| Branch | Agricultural machinery |
| Website | www.geringhoff.com |
The Carl Geringhoff GmbH & Co. KG is an international engineering company headquartered in Ahlen ( Westphalia ). Geringhoff has specialized in the development and production of harvesting attachments for combine harvesters for a wide variety of crops, and is the technology leader in this segment and the owner of numerous patents.
history
Carl Geringhoff founded the forging and agricultural machinery trading company in Ahlen in 1880, focusing on harvesting technology and traction engines. With the help of machinery, the harvest was supposed to be made easier, productivity increased and the living conditions of farmers improved. From 1890 threshing machines were developed, later the manufacture of additional drying machines followed.
In 1928 the company took over the Petermann works, which had got into financial difficulties . From 1955, the company began specializing in maize shellers for ginning maize cobs, and in 1958 the company began developing maize pickers for agricultural tractors.
At the beginning of the 1960s, Geringhoff, in cooperation with Daimler-Benz, developed the first European self-propelled corn harvester, fitted with a Unimog . A short time later, the company built maize headers for combine harvesters with two, four and more rows. In 1983 the world's first folding corn header for road transport was presented. In 1988 the company developed the first grain cutting units, which from 1989 were also offered foldable.
In 1991 the company relocated production to a 4.5 hectare site on Gersteinstrasse in the East industrial area. The old company headquarters in the north of Ahlen, initially still used as a warehouse, became an industrial wasteland. After the old systems have been demolished, a “Quartier Geringhoff” will be created on the site in 2014.
In 1995 Geringhoff brought out the Rota Disc , a maize picker with new three-rotor technology and integrated straw chopping. With the series introduction of the gear drive in 1997, Geringhoff succeeded for the first time in a maize header without belts and chains for power transmission. In 1998 the Mais Star was launched in North America, Africa and parts of South Europe as a special machine for extreme harvesting conditions.
After 2000, the first 12-row, folding maize pickers for large combine harvesters left the plant for North America. In 2004 Geringhoff presented the first maize picker with an active horizontal cut stubble cutter. In 2007, the world's first foldable grain header with an infinitely adjustable table and the first sunflower harvesting attachments were presented.
In 2011 the TriFlex band cutting system expanded the product range. For the first time, a rigid transverse screw conveyor was dispensed with. Instead, wide conveyor belts were used. In the same year Geringhoff presented the world's first row-independent corn picker Independence at Agritechnica in Hanover .
On September 11, 2012, Geringhoff announced the establishment of a second production facility in St. Cloud, Minnesota . Corn pickers for the American market are to be manufactured and delivered at the new location. The Ahlen plant was also expanded to include the purchase of the former Kosmann site.
Geringhoff is represented in numerous countries around the world. Geringhoff header attachments can be found as initial equipment from various manufacturers such as Deutz-Fahr or John Deere .
Awards
The commercial exhibition for kitchen, cellar, house and courtyard in Bad Hamm in 1900 awarded the company the “Diploma of Honor” and the “Golden Medal” on May 26, 1902.
In the run-up to the SIMA 2013 agricultural fair , Geringhoff received a SIMA Innovation Award in the form of an “Honorable Mention” for the row-independent corn picker “Independence”.
On October 23, 2014, Geringhoff received the Ahlen Business Prize in the form of the “Ahlen Mammoth” for outstanding work in recent years .
Social Commitment
With the support of the integration service in Soest , the company employs people with disabilities who work in qualified areas of the company.
Historical threshing machines in collections
Historical threshing machines can be found in various technical collections and local museums such as the fishing landscape museum or the living museum in Odershausen : There, agricultural machines and former rural life are presented on an old farm. The builder was the city council of Bad Wildungen , an alternative accommodation has been the Horse Strength Club in Isselhorst since April 2008 .
See also
literature
- Ralf Vogeding: wage threshing and machine threshing. A folklore study on the mechanization of agricultural work in Westphalia 1850–1970. Coppenrath, Münster 1989, ISBN 3-88547-312-7 , pp. 136, 148; ( Online ; PDF; 45.8 MB)
- Economic home guide for Westphalia. Düsseldorf, 1920; P. 167
Web links
- www.geringhoff.com - Official website
- Geringhoff finds old threshing box again - article from March 10, 2010 in the Westfälischer Anzeiger
- First use of the Geringhoff threshing machine with attached straw press with wire binding in 1960 , website of agricultural engineering company Meino Burmann, www.burmann-lu.de
- Chronicle of the Dornholzhausen community (PDF; 4.4 MB), photo Geringhoff threshing machine (1952) on p. 48
- Lostplace Productions - agricultural machinery Geringhof old location before demolition
supporting documents
- ^ A b Jörg Pastoor: Even after 132 years of growth: Geringhoff does well , Ahlener Zeitung , June 22, 2012
- ↑ Federal Gazette: Annual financial statements for the financial year from November 1, 2010 to October 31, 2011 for Carl Geringhoff GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft
- ↑ Vario cutting unit Geringhoff Variostar: Oil and gears instead of belts and chains (PDF; 262 kB), Profi-Magazin für Agrartechnik 69, 12/2003
- ↑ Geringhoff Patents , patent.de, accessed on May 30, 2013
- ↑ Technology and agriculture: Landtechnischer Ratgeber , Volume 13, 1961, p. 147 f.
- ↑ Jörg Pastoor: Geringhoff-Altsitz: Short process for the germ cell , Westfälische Nachrichten , April 12, 2011
- ↑ Carl Geringhoff Landmaschinen , series of pictures on Geringhoff's industrial wasteland, Ingo Bornemann's Lost Areas website , accessed on April 23, 2014
- ^ Christian Wolff: Geringhoff fallow before demolition: The gutting is in progress , Ahlener Zeitung , April 14, 2014
- ↑ Geringhoff on the road with TriFlex , professional magazine for agricultural technology , April 28, 2010
- ↑ Geringhoff founds company in the USA , professional magazine for agricultural technology , September 29, 2012
- ↑ American enthusiasts von Geringhoff , Die Glocke (daily newspaper) , November 30, 2012
- ↑ Hubert Wilmer: Practical test Deutz-Fahr 6060 HTS: Proven is not wrong ( memento of the original from August 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Test report with VarioStar 550 from Geringhoff, special print from Profi 03/2011 on deutz-fahr.at
- ↑ John Deere Vario Star Headers , Professional Agricultural Technology Magazine , December 22, 2012
- ↑ SIMA Innovation Awards 2013 , landtechnikmagazin.de, accessed December 11, 2013
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ahlen business award goes to Geringhoff, accessed September 28, 2014
- ↑ Annual report of the LWL Integration Office Westphalia: In over 6,700 cases, people with disabilities are financially supported in their working life , press release of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe , September 21, 2010
- ^ Threshing machine from Carl Geringhoff in Westphalia. Year of construction 1924 , fotocommunity.de , November 3, 2008, accessed on May 30, 2013
- ↑ Lebendiges Museum Odershausen , website Kraft- und Dampfmaschinen by Albert Gieseler, accessed on May 31, 2013
- ↑ Negotiation with schnapps: Club receives machine , newspaper article Neue Westfälische from April 28, 2008, accessed on March 31, 2013
- ^ Sources and research on the history of the city of Ahlen: Carl Geringhoff, Maschinenfabrik Ahlen, pp. 211 and 339, ISBN 3-00-017972-0 ( online , PDF; 3.2 MB), accessed on May 30, 2013
