Fella works

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AGCO Feucht GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding February 9, 1918
Seat Feucht , Germany
management Uli Nickol, Michael Gschwender (Managing Director)
Number of employees approx. 200 (2011)
sales € 58 million (2008)
Branch Agricultural engineering
Website www.fella.eu

The former Fella-Werke GmbH , since 2015 AGCO wet GmbH , is a German agricultural technology - companies based in Feucht near Nuremberg . The company has been a 100% part of the AGCO Group since 2011 and has been declared an AGCO competence center for green forage harvest.

The company was founded in 1918 as Bayerische Eggenfabrik AG . Since the 1980s, the company focuses on the production of forage - harvesters dedicated, even today (as of 2018) are marketed under the product name FELLA. AGCO Feucht GmbH also manufactures mowers, tedders and rakes for the Massey Ferguson and Fendt brands.

history

Self-propelled combine harvester Jupiter , built in 1960 with Volkswagen industrial engine type 122 , 29 hp

In 1917 Josef Hackl and Albert Löffler came up with the idea of founding a factory to manufacture harrows . The First World War was nearing its end, and an increasing demand for agricultural equipment and products from metal processing was to be expected in the period afterwards . Hackl and Löffler benefited from their connections with Isaria -meterwerke , a company that manufactured radios and was later bought by Siemens . The Isaria counter works played an important role in the history of the Fella works. The members of the management of Isaria -ählerwerke, including Josef Hackl, decided to found the Bayerische Harzprodukte-Fabrik, a company that manufactured wood products. This company leased its premises to the furniture company Karl Beer. This property was significant for the future of Fella-Werke, today AGCO Feucht GmbH. When Josef Hackl presented his idea to the management of Isaria -ählerwerke and the Bayerische Harzprodukte-Fabrik, they saw opportunities for success and decided to take this path.

The Bayerische Eggenfabrik was equipped with a share capital of 300,000 marks for the establishment of the new company . Albert Löffler left the Isaria meter works in December 1917 and became managing director of Bayerische Eggenfabrik AG in Feucht on January 1, 1918. The formal establishment of the company took place on February 9, 1918 at the same time as the purchase of the property from the furniture manufacturer Karl Beer. The property covered about 3.75 hectares and was purchased for 168,000 marks.

Today's AGCO Feucht GmbH started the harrow production company under the direction of Albert Löffler. It didn't take long, however, to start buying up more companies. In 1923 the former Fella-Werke GmbH bought a truck company, and in 1924 the product line was expanded to include plows. In 1931, Fella took over Epple & Buxmann from Augsburg , with which Fella entered the production of harvesting machines for the first time, especially for growing grain.

After the Second World War , the Jupiter , a self-propelled combine harvester, was introduced in 1954 . This combination harvester was modern for the time and could process different types of grain. In 1966, the then Fella-Werke expanded their product range to include grain silos. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Feucht site finally began to focus on the manufacture of forage machines. Nevertheless, a wide range of products was still offered; however, the focus was on the further development of the harvesting machines.

Corporate structure

AGCO Feucht is based in Feucht. The focus of the current product range (as of 2018) is on forage harvesting machines with mowers, hay tedders and rakes.

management

The former Fella-Werke GmbH has experienced numerous management changes; In 1988 there was a management buyout , with Peter Timmermann becoming Managing Director. In 1999 Timmermann sold the company to the Dutch investor group Netagco ( Netherlands Agricultural Companies ), which invested heavily in the Feucht location, particularly in upgrading the old buildings. A new assembly hall and a modern office building were created.

In 2002, what was then Fella-Werke GmbH generated around half of its sales in France, Austria, the Benelux countries and Switzerland; the export share was around 70 percent.

In 2004 Fella-Werke GmbH was bought by Argo , who made their subsidiary Laverda the parent company of Fella. In 2007, ARGO had to sell 50% of Laverda to AGCO , and at the end of 2010 AGCO announced its intention to buy the remaining shares in Laverda, including Fella-Werke GmbH. This purchase was completed in March 2011.

Production plant

Fella site in Feucht, 2010

Since the company was founded in 1918, the production site on the northern edge of the town of Feucht has been enlarged and reduced again several times. At the beginning, the Fella site was around 3.75 hectares and has since been expanded to around 17.59 hectares. In 1996 around 12 hectares were sold to a real estate company. In 2011, the factory site still comprised 4.60 hectares with five separate buildings.

In 1997, Fella-Werke launched a new concept for the assembly plant. It was decided to create four self-administered buildings for the different types of machines: one for the drum mowers, one for the disc mowers, one for the tedders and one for the rakes. There are two managers responsible for the employees in the plant as well as for the production requirements and the plant management. These changes made it possible to increase productivity as well as flexibility and quality. The former Fella-Werke GmbH received the International Best Factory Award for this in 1998 .

Products

Fendt tractor with Fella mowers

The AGCO wet GmbH currently offers (2018) drum and disc mowers , conditioners ( conditioner ), Tedder and rakes to.

The drum mowers range from 1.85 m to 3.06 m working width per mower. The disc mowers, on the other hand, have working widths of 1.66 m to 9.30 m and are equipped in different ways. B. with tine or roller conditioners and a conveyor belt that forms a swath immediately after mowing .

In 2011, the then FELLA-Werke GmbH had the largest hay tedder on the market - the TH 1800 Hydro with a working width of 17.50 m. In addition, there were and are small additional devices for alpine tractors; TH 400 DS Hydro with a width of 4.00 m (product name brand FELLA 2018 SANOS 401 DS )

The rakes include a 3.40 m rake as the smallest alpine machine; the largest version of the FELLA JURAS 14055 PRO has a working width of 14.00 m. The company has a number of patents and innovations in this product area, including the so-called “jet effect” .

Web links

Commons : Fella-Werke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fella-Werke: Company portrait. Archived from the original on October 7, 2011 ; Retrieved March 24, 2011 .
  2. ↑ a b c Forging Ahead. (PDF, 872 KB) In: Industry Europe 19/8. 2009, archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; accessed on March 23, 2011 (English).
  3. ↑ FELLA-Werke becomes AGCO Feucht GmbH . In: landwirt.com . ( landwirt.com [accessed April 17, 2018]).
  4. ^ AGCO Corporation. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 17, 2018 ; accessed on April 17, 2018 (German). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fella.eu
  5. ↑ Forage harvest now also at MF . In: top agrar online . ( topagrar.com [accessed April 17, 2018]).
  6. ^ Isaria counter works ( Memento from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Deutsches Rundfunk-Museum
  7. ^ Siemens in Germany. In: siemens.com. Retrieved March 23, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Fella celebrates 90 years. In: schweizerbauer.ch. March 26, 2008, archived from the original on September 13, 2012 ; Retrieved March 24, 2011 .
  9. ↑ Erhard Klamer (Fella): People talk about agricultural machinery and think of Fella. (PDF) In: Oldtimer-Jahrbuch 2006. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; Retrieved March 24, 2011 .
  10. ↑ Netagco invests millions in Fella plant. In: profi 8/2000. ( Archive contribution )
  11. ↑ a b High investments. At Fella, the innovation backlog is dissolving. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Agrartechnik 3/2003. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 24, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.agrartechnikonline.de  
  12. ↑ Johannes Paar: AGCO completely takes over Laverda plant for combine harvesters. In: landwirt.com. November 9, 2010, accessed March 23, 2011 .
  13. ↑ AGCO expands harvester business. In: fendt.com. November 2010, accessed March 23, 2011 .
  14. ↑ Free patents online

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