Kamag transport technology

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Kamag Transporttechnik GmbH & Co. KG

logo
legal form Limited partnership
( GmbH & Co. KG )
founding 1969
Seat Ulm, GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Dirk Jahn
( Managing Director )
Branch Special, heavy duty and special transport vehicles
Website www.kamag.com

Kamag transport technology (short Kamag, proper spelling KAMAG) is a German company with headquarters in Ulm , Baden-Wurttemberg . For example, it specializes in the manufacture of industrial vehicles, modular transporters and vehicles for terminal logistics . Kamag is part of Transporter Industry International (TII for short).

history

In 1969 the entrepreneur Franz Xaver Kögel and the engineer Karl Weinmann founded the Karlsdorfer Maschinenbau Gesellschaft (Kamag for short). Their business idea was to shift heavy transports to the road in order to enable more flexible processes and to cope with higher loads. The first products included special vehicles for steelworks and shipyards. The company developed successfully so that in 1971 it had to move into larger rooms in Ulm.

Kamag (along with Innova) became one of the most important business areas of the Kögel vehicle works . In 1991, the owners put some of the parent company's preference shares on the stock exchange to finance international expansion, among other things. In the further course of the 1990s, Kamag made a decisive contribution to the positive development of the entire group of companies. Therefore, Kögel Fahrzeugwerke's insolvency in 2004 did not immediately affect the company. As a result, however, a sale came up.

In the bidding process for Kamag, the Heilbronn entrepreneur Otto Rettenmaier prevailed. This brought the company together with Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik and Nicolas Industrie ( Auxerre , F) under the umbrella of the Transporter Industry International holding. The group of companies covers the entire range of heavy goods transport.

Corporate structure

Kamag Transporttechnik GmbH & Co. KG is a limited partnership under German law. It was entered in the commercial register of the Ulm District Court in 2008 . Otto Rettenmaier GmbH, based in Heilbronn, acts as general partner . It is a limited liability holding company owned by Otto Rettenmaier, which also provides the management . Transporter Industry International GmbH, based in Heilbronn, is also involved as a limited partner . This indirectly exercises a controlling influence on the company.

Products

Kamag develops and produces specialized vans and other modular vehicles for a wide variety of applications. There are also services in the areas of maintenance and training. The company is successful with dockable shipyard transporters, for example. His innovations include the first electric AGV (Automatically Guided Vehicle) for driverless transport of palletized loads outdoors.

The company became known internationally for the construction of a vehicle for the US space agency NASA . It used Kamag self-propelled modules to transport the space shuttle Endeavor through the streets of Los Angeles .

The Federal Motor Transport Authority records around 100 new registrations of the Kamag brand every year. The statistics of the German authority on trademarks go back to 2012.

Gallery (selection)

  • Slab transporter

  • E-catering Wiesel

  • Slag transporter

  • Endeavor Transport

  • Ship section transporter

  • Section pallet truck

  • Swap body trolleys

literature

  • Stefan Jung, Michael Müller: The heavy-duty specialists: Scheuerle, Nicolas, Kamag. Podszun Verlag, Brilon 2010, ISBN 978-3-86133-557-3 .

Web links

Commons : Kamag  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Company. Kamag Transporttechnik, accessed on February 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ 50 years of Kamag transport technology: Special vehicles for special customers. In: Baumagazin. October 23, 2019, accessed February 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Bernd Maienschein: “WiWo” names the TII Group the world market leader. In: MM Logistik. November 28, 2018, accessed February 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Magdi Aboul-Kheir: World records with weight . In: Südwest Presse . September 7, 2019, p. 19 .
  5. ↑ Kögel Fahrzeugwerke: Commerzbank gives an optimistic forecast. The trailer and body manufacturer is going public this September. In: Handelsblatt . August 7, 1991, p. 12 .
  6. ↑ Kögel vehicle works: 14 percent for preferences . Sales and earnings grew strongly in 1992. In: Handelsblatt . July 1, 1991, p. 14 .
  7. ↑ Kögel remains optimistic . Thick order cushion in the back - “Undramatic” 1999. In: Börsen-Zeitung . May 30, 2000, p. 25 .
  8. ↑ Kögel files for insolvency. Refurbishment - Merger with Chereau planned. In: Börsen-Zeitung . January 27, 2004, p. 14 .
  9. ↑ Several investors are interested in Kögel . Negotiations are still ongoing - decision expected in April - banks ensure liquidity. In: Börsen-Zeitung . March 26, 2004, p. 12 .
  10. ↑ Kögel sells Kamag transport technology. In: VerkehrsRundschau. February 6, 2004, accessed February 10, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Heavy Metal . In: Schwäbische Zeitung . Edition Leutkirch. 23 September 2016, p. 8 .
  12. ↑ Kamag Transporttechnik GmbH & Co. KG. In: Business Register. Bundesanzeiger Verlag, accessed on February 10, 2020 (Ulm District Court, HRA 720930).
  13. ↑ Products. Kamag Transporttechnik, accessed on February 10, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Service. Kamag Transporttechnik, accessed on February 10, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Kamag, Ulm, Baden-Württemberg . In: Florian Langenscheidt, Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders: The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . Gabal Verlag, Offenbach am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-86936-656-2 .
  16. ↑ The Endeavor's last voyage: On Kamag modules through Los Angeles . In: Heavy Transport Magazine (STM) . No. 48 , 2012, p. 44 ( kranmagazin.de [PDF; accessed on February 10, 2020]).
  17. ↑ New registrations of motor vehicles and motor vehicle trailers. Federal Motor Transport Authority, accessed on February 10, 2020 .