Langendorf (company)

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Langendorf GmbH

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legal form Corporation
founding 1889
Seat Waltrop , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Klaus P. Strautmann
Number of employees 187
sales EUR 51 million
Branch Commercial vehicle construction
Website www.langendorf.de
As of September 30, 2015

The Langendorf GmbH is a 1889 forged established German manufacturer of semi-trailers with headquarters in North Rhine-Westphalia Waltrop . The company specializes in inloaders , low loaders , dump trucks and special vehicles and is considered a leader in some areas. It has been part of the Polish Wielton Group since 2017 .

history

In 1889 Franz-Josef Langendorf founded a forge in Waltrop, Westphalia. In 1892 he bought the house at Hochstrasse 29 and expanded his business into a blacksmith's shop for horseshoeing and wagon construction . In addition to iron fittings, carriages with wooden wheels and vehicles for agriculture were built from then on. In the following years his son Bernhard also learned the blacksmith's trade here.

After passing the master craftsman's examination , Bernhard Langendorf took over his father's business in 1914 and ran it as a classic blacksmith's workshop through the First World War and the economic crisis of the Weimar Republic . His son Heinrich, born in 1924, also joined the company at the beginning of the Second World War and completed his training as a blacksmith there, which he completed after the war with the master's examination. The economic upswing due to the reconstruction led to an increased demand for vehicles after 1945, from which Langendorf was also able to benefit.

In 1950 Heinrich Langendorf took over the management of the family business in the third generation and renamed it Fahrzeugbau Bernhard Langendorf und Sohn . He built a new factory hall and enlarged the office space. With the help of his father, three journeymen and an apprentice, the company concentrated from 1952 on the production of the first pneumatic-tire trailers with tipping bodies for use in road haulage . From 1958, the company developed its own low-loader , the rear pendulum axles of which could swing out independently and applied for a patent .

In 1960 the company moved its headquarters to today's premises at Bahnhofstrasse 115. In the following years, the range of low-loaders was expanded and the development of a special semi-trailer with loading crane and grab, the Spezi, began . The first vehicles of this self-loader were used to transport bricks as early as 1969 .

From 1970 the production halls and the design office were enlarged and a modern paint shop was built on a newly acquired company site. In 1974 the production of an inloader for glass transport started here , which was technically further developed in the following years. Between 1980 and 1990 several extensions and new buildings were built and the company premises were enlarged to 47,000 m².

At the turn of the millennium, Heinz Bernd Langendorf, the great-grandson of the company founder, took over the management and began restructuring the company into Fahrzeugbau Langendorf GmbH & Co. KG . The company was expanded to include various service and sales companies under the umbrella of the new Langendorf GmbH . As part of an expansion, another location was added on March 10, 2004 with Langendorf Service Potsdam GmbH . In 2005, Langendorf Mediaș SRL opened an additional assembly plant in Mediaș, Romania .

In the years that followed, the company concentrated on the production of inloaders, where it was regarded as a technology and market leader. A massive slump in sales in the crisis years 2008/2009 led to economic difficulties, so that on November 28, 2012 an application for bankruptcy had to be filed. On February 1, 2013, the Bochum District Court (80 IN 993/12) opened insolvency proceedings under self-administration and Langendorf GmbH (HRB 4896) renamed Waltroper Fahrzeugwerk GmbH. In September of the same year, Klaus P. Strautmann and NRW.Bank took over the company through the NRW.Bank Spezialfonds to the newly founded Strautmann Fahrzeugbau GmbH, while the state of North Rhine-Westphalia provided a guarantee to secure loans. On December 23, 2013, the name was changed to a new Langendorf GmbH (HRB 7066). In the course of this, Fahrzeugbau Langendorf GmbH & Co. KG was officially deleted. The management was taken over by Klaus P. Strautmann and Jens Daniel from the controversial consulting company Buchalik Brömmekamp , who had developed the restructuring concept. In the course of the renovation, the staff was reduced by 20% and the plant in Romania was taken over by vehicle manufacturer Bernd Böse.

In 2017, the Polish competitor Wielton took over the 80% company shares of NRW.Bank after approval by the antitrust authorities , the remaining shares remained with Strautmann. At the same time, discussions were started with the municipality to relocate operations to a larger location in Waltrop on Im Dicken Dören . Langendorf is currently one of the largest employers in the city with around 275 employees at two locations in the Waltrop urban area.

Companies

Langendorf GmbH was a family business for four generations until 2013. Today the company belongs to the Polish Wielton SA . Langendorf produces tippers, low loaders, inloaders and special vehicles. The company is the world market leader in glass inloaders. As the owner of various patents for innovative developments for semi-trailers, the company is considered a technology leader .

Langendorf produces up to 1000 vehicles annually at its location in Waltrop and is represented as an exhibitor at all well-known trade fairs in the fields of construction, transport and vehicle construction worldwide. Langendorf developments and vehicles are described or given as examples in specialist books on vehicle technology, specialist magazines or specialist reference works. The group of companies generated total sales of EUR 51 million in the 2015/2016 financial year, with Langendorf GmbH generating the largest share of sales with around EUR 42 million.

Company structure:

  • Langendorf GmbH, Waltrop
    • Langendorf Service GmbH, Waltrop
    • SFL Grundstücksgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Waltrop
    • SFL Verwaltungs GmbH
    • Langendorf Trading GmbH, Waltrop
    • Langendorf Service Potsdam GmbH, Potsdam

Innovations (selection)

  • Pivoting axle low loader : Patent DE1160741B : Road vehicle to be loaded from the rear. Published January 26, 1964 . And others. From approx. 1969 Robert Hudson Ltd built a Timiser low loading trailer under license.
  • Container pick-up : Patent DE1939988C : Road vehicle for transporting containers. Published May 16, 1974 . ‌
  • Lowerable drop side: Patent DE1802040C3 : Raising and lowering drop side for a road vehicle. Published September 25, 1975 . and other
  • Variable loading area: Patent DE2263937C3 : low loader vehicle , in particular articulated lorry with low loader trailer . Published August 26, 1976 . and other
  • Access ramp for low-loader: Patent DE2427576A1 : Low- loader with one rear axle unit. Published July 26, 1979 . ‌
  • Loading crane Spezi Patent DE2828568B : Crane for self loading lorry and trailer - is mounted on rear of lorry and has rails to move load. Published January 17, 1980 . Loading crane on hangers or trailers for Selbtbeladen. Today standard for many providers.
  • Covers for dump trucks : Patent DE3002574C2 : truck or truck trailer or semitrailer trough, in particular tipping trough. Published August 6, 1987 . and other
  • Dump heating: Patent DE3510240C3 : truck with heatable body. Published September 23, 1993 . Heated with exhaust gases dump trucks for the transportation of asphalt .
  • Patent DE4210001A1 : Method and device for forced steering of a vehicle. Published September 23, 1993 . Allows admission overlong vehicles according to § 70 StVZO.
  • Load securing: Patent EP426962B1 : Road transport vehicle with internal loading space for a transport frame with a load inclined inward on both sides, preferably made of upright glass panes or glass pane packages. Published on November 30, 1994 . And others.
  • Self-steering vehicle trailer Patent DE10158868B4 : Self-steering vehicle trailer . Released April 8, 2004 . And others.
  • Thermo trough: Patent DE202014103190U1 : Thermally decoupled trough. Published on August 28, 2014 . ISOXX awarded the Trailer Innovation Award 2015

  • Langendorf semi-trailer low loader

  • Langendorf tipping semitrailer

  • Langendorf glass inloader

  • Langendorf double-deck inloader

  • Langendorf concrete inloader

Trivia

  • Various models of current and historical Langendorf vehicles are available from Kibri (model no .: 10096, 10252, 10716, 54605, 10974, 10676, 10974), Schuco (model no .: 22028, 23650, 22709), Herpa (model no .: 076401, 155700, 156240, 1738), GMTS Brinkmeier (model no .: G03920, G0001320) and WSI Models (model no .: wsi02-1726).
  • Hendrik Hemker from the family of the vehicle manufacturer Wecon worked for several years at Langendorf in Waltrop before joining the family company in 2007.

literature

  • Thomas Heintzmann: Inloader . Fiedler, Bruchköbel, 2006, ISBN 3-924425-03-5 .
  • Vehicle construction Langendorf (Ed.): 100 years of vehicle construction Langendorf 1890-1990 . Waltrop 1990.

Web links

Commons : Langendorf Fahrzeugbau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Annual financial statements in the Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ a b Langendorf: Good business year end 2015/2016 ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2017 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. in the construction industry  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.baugewerbe-magazin.de
  3. ↑ a b Gert Podszun: Yearbook Lorries 2006 . Podszun-Motorbücher, Brilon 2005, ISBN 3-86133-396-1 , p. 437 ( verkehrsrundschau.de ).
  4. ^ Heinrich Langendorf celebrates his 80th birthday. In: Verkehrsrundschau. August 13, 2004, accessed June 24, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c d history. Langendorf Fahrzeugbau, accessed on June 29, 2017 .
  6. ↑ history. Kerkhoff Transporte, accessed on June 29, 2017 .
  7. ↑ a b excerpt from the commercial register of Langendorf GmbH (HRB 4896) . In: Commercial Register . December 28, 2017 ( online-handelsregister.de ).
  8. ^ Extract from the commercial register of Langendorf GmbH (HRB 7066) . In: Commercial Register . November 21, 2019 ( online-handelsregister.de ).
  9. ↑ Thomas Rosenberger: Strautmann Fahrzeugbau buys Langendorf. In: eurotransport. October 28, 2013. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Thomas Rosenberger: Interview with Klaus Strautmann, the Innenlader recipe for success. In: eurotransport. August 25, 2014. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
  11. ↑ a b Exit for NRW.Bank at commercial vehicle manufacturer after restructuring New shareholder at Langendorf GmbH. In: VentureCapital Magazin . June 19, 2017. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Self-administered insolvency proceedings opened at Langendorf GmbH. (No longer available online.) In: Press release. Buchalik Brömmekamp, ​​February 18, 2013, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 29, 2017 .  ( 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.indat.info  
  13. ↑ Norbert Schmitz: Dark clouds over Langendorf. In: DerWesten . November 30, 2012. Retrieved July 19, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Martin Behr: Polish vehicle manufacturer takes over Langendorf. In: Waltroper Zeitung . May 26, 2017. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
  15. ^ Minister Garrelt Duin visits Langendorf GmbH in Waltrop. In: Focus . May 9, 2017. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
  16. ↑ 35,000 Leaders in Europe, Volume 4 . D&B Europe, 1992, p.  342/407/677 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  17. ^ Sven Volmering Member of the Bundestag and CDU delegation visiting Langendorf GmbH in Waltrop. In: News. CDU Recklinghausen City Association, August 19, 2016, accessed on June 24, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Langendorf Innenlader: Not only for the transport of elements. In: Steine ​​+ Erden Edition 6/08. Trade Association Raw Materials and Chemical Industry, August 19, 2016, accessed on June 24, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Gregor Soller: Thermal wells for asphalt construction: Very hot iron. (No longer available online.) In: Dossier. Verkehrsrundschau, November 14, 2014, formerly in the original ; accessed on June 24, 2017 .  ( 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: Toter Link / dev.verkehrsrundschau.de  
  20. ↑ a b Transport World, Volume 132 . Transport World Publishing Company, London 1969, p.  27 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  21. ↑ Langendorf - technology leader inloader . In: Berufsgenossenschaft raw materials and chemical industry (ed.): Stein + Erden . tape  6/08 , 2008 ( steine-und-erden.net ).
  22. ↑ Langendorf Langendorf wins Trailer Innovation Award 2015. In: Der Bau Unternehmer. November 14, 2014, accessed June 24, 2017 .
  23. ^ A b Norbert Gebhardt: Fluid technology in motor vehicles . Springer-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05482-2 , pp. 68 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  24. ^ A b Stefan Breuer: Commercial vehicle technology: Fundamentals, systems, components . Springer-Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-09537-6 , pp. 133 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  25. ↑ G. Siemen: Special trailer for combined transport . In: Glaser's annals . tape 94 , 1970, pp. 331 u. 406 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  26. ↑ Transport research and development II in the Federal Republic (commercial enterprise) . German Transport Science Society, 1969, p.  20 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  27. ↑ A. Bagel: Stahl und Eisen, Volume 95, Part 1 . Journal for the German Ironworks, 1975, p. 437 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  28. ^ Transport Management: The British Journal of Trade and Transport, Volumes 41-42 . London 1969, p.  54 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  29. ↑ Top topic thermal insulation. In: Construction Network. Giesel Verlag, November 12, 2014, accessed June 24, 2017 .
  30. ↑ The Hemker family continues to shape WECON - Successful generation change. Wecon, accessed July 15, 2017 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 49 ″  N , 7 ° 24 ′ 28 ″  E