Hako
| Hako GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1948 |
| Seat |
Bad Oldesloe , Germany
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| management | Mario Schreiber |
| Number of employees | 1,046 |
| sales | 236.4 million euros |
| Branch | commercial vehicles |
| Website | www.hako.com |
| As of December 31, 2014 | |
The Hako GmbH is a company for cleaning technology and ultra-light commercial vehicles for these purposes, based in Bad Oldesloe . It was founded on December 24, 1948. The name of Ha ns co derived ch & Sohn.
history
Hans Koch , socialist and pacifist , developed the world's first small motor hoe in a rural commune in Harxbüttel (now a part of Braunschweig ). He called this DiMoHa, "The motorized hand". It was a motor with a worm gear , which is carried on the back. This drives the chopping knives via a flexible shaft, which loosened the soil and uprooted the weeds on it his first patent. He was able to finance the development with the support of small peasant associations. The invention of the first motorized hedge trimmer he was again able to apply for a patent on June 23, 1925.
In 1948, after fleeing from the advancing Soviet troops, Hans Koch founded the mechanical engineering company Hans Koch & Sohn in Pinneberg near Hamburg . Abbreviation: Hako. The new company was entered in the commercial register on Christmas Eve 1948. After the company was founded, the tillers and the single-axle system milling machines were manufactured in series.
In 1954, Koch moved his business to Bad Oldesloe, initially to Lübecker Straße. In the 1970s, Hako moved to the industrial park on Hamburger Straße, where the company's headquarters are still located today.
The company's ascent began in 1956 with the development of the legendary “ Hakorette ” tiller , a single-axle machine . Both the DiMoHa and the Hakorette are in the Deutsches Museum in Munich - as a special technical achievement.
In 1960 the first own four-wheel compact tractors of the Hakotrak T6 type were produced. In the same year, Tyll Necker became commercial director and co-partner. Tim Koch, son of Hans Koch, took over the technical management. Daughter Karin, Tyll Necker's wife since 1955, then took over the personnel department.
In 1961 the first European vacuum sweeper was developed and produced shortly afterwards. Hako started a completely new product segment with the construction of vacuum sweepers. In 1962 the Trappenkamp branch was built, where the technology center was later founded. Today the competence center for plastics processing is located there.
In 1966 the company founder Hans Koch withdrew from the company and Tyll Necker took over the management alone. In 1975 the first European scrubbing machines went into production. In 1980 the American Cleaning Equipment Corporation - today Minuteman International, USA - was taken over. In 1989, devices for building cleaning were also manufactured in Bad Oldesloe. In 1995 the external cleaning division was established. The cleaning division (for companies and municipalities ) accounts for the company's main turnover today. In 1991 Havelländische Maschinenbau GmbH was bought. Today it is the competence center for multifunctional equipment carriers.
In 1998 Hako took over the majority (75.3%) in the Thuringian company Multicar Waltershausen. Today it is the competence center for implement carriers and transporters. In the same year the company PowerBoss was acquired by the Hako subsidiary Minuteman International in the USA. Also in 1998, the small Unimog 409 ( UX 100 ) , which had been in production since 1996, and the associated production facilities were taken over by Daimler-Benz. The UX 100 continued to be produced as a Kommobil until the end of 2002.
In 2005, the central used and rental machine business was started with Hako-Service GmbH. The Possehl Group had already acquired a majority (56%) in Hako in two steps in 2004 and 2006. On January 1, 2006, the Lübeck-based company also took over the management of Hako and integrated the company with a turnover of around 400 million euros within the Possehl Group as an independent division. On October 1, 2007, the remaining shares were acquired, so that Hako has belonged to the Possehl Group to 100% since then.
In 2012, Hako-Werke GmbH and Hako International GmbH were merged to form Hako GmbH. In 2013, the Multicar and Citymaster product areas were combined under the Hako umbrella brand and the Multicar M31 was the first vehicle to be launched under the new brand design.
In 2014, new, internationally popular names were introduced in the cleaning technology product segment with Scrubmaster, Sweepmaster and Cleanserv. In the same year, the Citymaster 1600 rounded off the full-liner in the municipal technology program.
Products
The Hako Group is one of the leading international manufacturers of cleaning machines, multifunctional equipment carriers and transporters.
In the field of cleaning technology, Hako produces the following products itself: scrubber driers , sweepers and vacuum sweepers, combined sweepers and scrubber driers, small devices for professional interior cleaning, cleaning agents and dosing systems. In the municipal technology sector, external cleaning machines and multifunctional equipment carriers are manufactured.
The US subsidiary Minuteman International is a manufacturer of high-quality commercial and industrial floor cleaning machines. The product areas are scrubbing machines, machines for wet and dry carpet cleaning, small appliances for building cleaning, sweepers and vacuum sweepers as well as special vacuum cleaners .
PowerBoss Inc, a subsidiary of Minuteman International and thus part of the Hako group of companies, produces vacuum sweepers, scrubber driers and combined sweepers and scrubber driers.
structure
The company's headquarters have been in Bad Oldesloe since 1954. In addition to the plant located there and other production facilities in Glindow , Trappenkamp and Waltershausen , the Hako Group also manufactures in Poland and the USA .
See also
Web links
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- History of the Hako Group - Milestones in the company's history - Accessed on November 17, 2015
- Tyll Necker joins Multicar on July 30, 1998 - accessed on November 17, 2015
- Unimog series 409 UX100 will be taken over by Daimler-Benz - retrieved on September 25, 2017
- It all started with a tiller on September 25, 1999 - accessed on November 17, 2015
- Eckart Kottkamp new head of Hako-Werke from May 16, 2003 - accessed on November 17, 2015
- From communard to boss on October 22, 2011 - accessed on November 17, 2015
- Possehl acquires 100% of Hako on October 1, 2007 - accessed on November 17, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint
- ↑ a b Federal Gazette : Annual financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014
- ↑ Patent DE415136 : Motor-operated hand tool for gardening and field work. Registered on August 24, 1924 , published June 23, 1925 , inventor: Hans Koch.
Coordinates: 53 ° 47 ′ 54.5 " N , 10 ° 20 ′ 49.4" E