NAF Neunkirchener axle factory

NAF Neunkirchener Flugzeugfabrik AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	1960
Seat	Neunkirchen am Brand , Bavaria
management	Bernhard Schnabel ( board member ), Erwin Urban (board member), Norbert Knorren (board member)
Number of employees	approx. 620
Branch	mechanical engineering
Website	www.nafaxles.com

The NAF Neunkirchener Achsenfabrik AG is a family owned company in Neunkirchen am Brand in Bavaria produces, the axles and transmissions for self-propelled machines for construction, forestry and agriculture. NAF is the market leader for powered bogie axles (forest machine drives).

history

The NAF was founded on March 24, 1960 by the then Mayor of Neunkirchen and Bavarian state parliament member Georg Hemmerlein and the Munich entrepreneur Kaspar Lochner. In 1968 the production of planetary axles began. In 1970 the development office in Munich was opened by Ernst Auer. In 1974 Helmut Weyhausen took over the company. Tandem axles have been produced since 1976. In 2002 NAF was converted to an AG . Jochen Weyhausen-Sauer became chairman of the supervisory board. Subsequently, his son Rigk Sauer was chairman of the supervisory board for several years. In April 2012, the long-standing CEO, Ralf Sauer, moved to the Supervisory Board and was elected Chairman of the Supervisory Board.

Awards

• 1995 DIN EN ISO 9001 certified
• 2007 Received the seal of approval “Systematically Safe” for effective occupational safety from the employers' liability insurance association.
• In 2009 received the 130th Jobstar in the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region.
• 2016 DIN EN ISO 14001 : 2015

Branches

• 1999 Foundation of NAF Drive Systems Inc., Edmonton, Canada
• 2007 Foundation of NAF Russia GmbH, Yekaterinburg, Russia
• 2015 Foundation of NAF Axles North America Inc., North America

Products

NAF manufactures durable high-performance axles and transmissions for use in off-road vehicles and mobile work machines for the

• Construction industry ( wheel loaders , mobile excavators , articulated dump trucks, graders , road pavers, road rollers ),
• Forestry ( forwarders , harvesters , skidders ),
• Agriculture ( forage harvesters , self-propelled mowers, combine harvesters , self-propelled crop protection sprayers , beet harvesters ),
• other applications (e.g. mobile harbor cranes, underground vehicles, lift and hoisting vehicles, container loaders).

The product range includes:

• axes
  • Planetary tandem axles
  • Portal tandem axles
  • Planetary steering axles
  • Rigid planetary axles
• transmission
  • Transfer case
  • Twin engine gearbox
• Components
  • Differential gear
  • Planetary gear

Web links

• Company site
• Report in IHK Nuernberg
• Market Neunkirchen am Brand

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release Neunkirchen am Brand
2. ↑ Press release Perspective Mittelstand
3. ↑ Magazine iVT International Off-Highway, August 2008, p 94
4. ↑ Press release Neunkirchen am Brand
5. ↑ Press release Neunkirchen am Brand
6. ↑ wim-magazin.de