Kverneland

Kverneland AS
legal form	Allmennaksjeselskap
founding	1879
Seat	Kvernaland , Norway
management	Dai Watanabe, President and Chief Executive Officer
Number of employees	2,487 (2014)
sales	€ 497.3 million (2014)
Branch	Machine and vehicle construction
Website	www.kvernelandgroup.com

Bale wrapper from Kverneland Taarup

8-furrow Kverneland semi-mounted plow

The Kverneland AS is a Norwegian company that specializes in the production of agricultural implements. The name of the company goes back to the founder Ole Gabriel Kverneland, who opened his forge in Norway in 1879. Kverneland has been majority-owned by Kubota since 2012 .

history

In 1879 Ole Gabriel Kverneland founded the "OG Kvernelands Factory" in Kvernaland for the mechanical production of scythes. In 1894 the company changed its name to "Kvernelands Fabrikk A / S". At that time, Kverneland was mainly producing horse powered plows and harrows .

In 1928, in addition to a new series of pitchforks and harrows, the company's first tractor plow was presented. In 1955, Kverneland took over the Brumunddal company Globus Maskinfabrikk AS, which primarily produced threshing machines.

In 1993, the takeover of the Danish agricultural machinery manufacturer Taarup followed. Three years later, Accord from Soest was taken over. In 1998 the Dutch Greenland Group was taken over, which brought the two brands Vicon and Deutz-Fahr (only forage harvesting technology) into the group. A year later, Rau Landtechnik , a manufacturer of tillage equipment and sprayers , was taken over.

In 1997 the company Silo-Wolff was taken over.

In 2009 the area for baling presses was sold together with the plant in Geldrop to the company Kuhn Landmaschinen .

In 2009, the designs, patents and products for roughage production from Veenhuis were transferred to the Kverneland Group. This will lead the product line under the names Vicon and Kverneland Taarup. In 2010 and 2011, the products will still be manufactured by Veenhuis on behalf of Kverneland, later production will be relocated to another location. Veenhuis will continue to supply spare parts and service work for its existing customers. The partnership between Kverneland and Veenhuis ended in 2018.

At the end of December 2011, Kubota became one of Kverneland's largest shareholders with around 32% of the shares. In 2012, Kubota Corporation secured another block of shares. Kubota has been the majority shareholder since then. In May 2012 the company was taken off the stock exchange.

In 2012 the Italian manufacturer Gallignani was taken over. Since then, round balers have been manufactured in the former Gallignani plant in Russi , also under license for the AGCO group with its brands Fendt and Massey Ferguson .

In 2015, Kverneland presented a range of self-propelled field sprayers at Agritechnica.

Products and production

Production sites

Daqing, People's Republic of China

In 2010 the factory in Daqing opened . Mulchers and cultivators are built there. In the future, production is to be expanded to include the entire Kverneland product range.

Geldrop, Netherlands

In 1937 Petrus Zweegers founded the PZ company in Geldrop. The company was acquired by Greenland in 1982 and then by Kverneland in 1998. In 2009 the location was sold to Kuhn .

Kerteminde, Denmark

In Kerteminde , forage harvesting products such as B. rakes and loading wagons produced. The location was founded in 1877 by the Taarup Maskinfabrik. Taarup was taken over by Kverneland in 1993. In 2006 the location was reorganized and since then has been responsible for the production of forage harvesting technology of the brands Vicon, Kverneland and contract manufacturing for Deutz-Fahr. The production of Deutz-Fahr devices will be terminated on September 1, 2017 when the license agreement expires.

Klepp, Norway

The company's main factory has been in Klepp since 1879 . In addition to the company's headquarters, plow production is also located here.

Les Landes-Genusson, France

Cultivators are built in Les Landes-Genusson .

Lipetsk, Russia

Tillage tools and sowing machines have been manufactured in Lipetsk, Russia, since 2006 .

Nieuw-Vennep, Netherlands

The factory was originally founded by Vicon in 1955 in Nieuw-Vennep. In 1990 Vicon was taken over by Greenland and in 1998 by Kverneland. Plant protection equipment and fertilizer spreaders are now being built in Nieuw-Vennep.

Russi, Italy

By taking over the production of round balers from the Italian manufacturer Gallignani, Kverneland has owned a factory in Russi since 2012 .

Soest, Germany

The plant in Soest was built by the Accord machine factory. Through this, the plant came to Kverneland in 1996. As before, sowing machines are produced in Soest, and since 2016 machines under the Kubota brand. The Soest II plant is located in Oestinghausen .

Brands

Kverneland for tillage

Kverneland Accord for sowing and fertilizing technology

Kverneland Rau for the crop protection sprayers
Kverneland Taarup for forage harvesting technology
Vicon , which continues to cover the areas of forage harvesting, balers and fertilizer spreaders.

Former brands are PZ Zweegers , which was sold on to the Kuhn company for 115 million euros in 2008 together with the Geldrop plant , as well as Fähse from Düren in the Rhineland, which was taken over by the then independent company Accord in the 1990s .

Products

Vicon fertilizer spreader

In Germany, the Vicon company was mainly known for its fertilizer spreaders. With the exception of the supporting frame, these were made entirely of plastic, and the container was reinforced with glass fiber. Instead of the usual diffusion lenses, a pendulous plastic tube was used. Corrosive fertilizers cannot harm these fertilizer spreader models, so that many of these devices are still in use after 30 years. However, the small throwing distance of the pendulum tube compared to diffusing lenses and the small container volume have a limiting effect.

Web links

Commons : Kverneland Group - Collection of images

Kverneland AS website

Individual evidence

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↑ agricultural technology magazine about cooperation with Veenhuis

↑ Alfons Deter: Veenhuis and the Kverneland Group end partnership. In: top agrar . Landwirtschaftsverlag Münster , November 22, 2018, accessed on June 14, 2020 .

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