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TEREX Fuchs , originally Johannes Fuchs KG , is a division of Terex Deutschland GmbH for the production of material handling machines .
history
The company, which is now based in Bad Schönborn , was founded in 1888 by master blacksmith Johannes Fuchs in Hemmingen . Since 1904, Fuchs had agricultural machinery and stable equipment produced in a new factory in Ditzingen, 9 km away . Ditzingen became the headquarters of the company, which was taken over in 1920 by the sons Otto and Karl Fuchs. After the Second World War , the company shifted to the production of excavators , loading machines (dung loaders, "D1" and "D2") and cranes . The "D3" was the first self-propelled excavator with pneumatic tires which, in addition to a grab, could also be equipped with a deep and face shovel. From 1952 to 1955, 701 pieces of these devices were produced.
In 1957, Plant II was opened in Bad Schönborn (then still Mingolsheim / Baden). On January 1, 1966, Gerhard Fuchs, the third generation of the family, joined the management. Under his aegis, the first hydraulic excavators were added to the range in 1967, alongside the previous rope excavators. The 20,000th Fuchs excavator, a Fuchs 703 R hydraulic excavator, rolled off the production line in 1972. In 1980 the company had a turnover of 94.1 million DM with 660 employees. Production and sales of agricultural equipment were discontinued in 1983. Production in the Ditzingen plant (Plant I) ended on January 1, 1984. Only the head office was temporarily retained at the local site. A financial bottleneck led to the opening of the settlement procedure at the Ludwigsburg district court in November 1984 . In 1985 Johannes Fuchs KG was taken over by Karl Schaeff GmbH & Co. The administration building on Leonberger Straße in Ditzingen (the so-called Fuchsbau ) became the property of the city of Ditzingen and is now used by associations.
At the Bad Schönborn site, excavator production was converted to loading machines in 1998. In 2002, Schaeff GmbH was taken over by Terex Deutschland GmbH, which thus formed the Terex-Fuchs division. In 2003, 350 machines were manufactured per year. In 2007, in the fiftieth year since the Bad Schönborn plant was built, 1,000 machines were manufactured per year.
In 2016 the brand name changed from the double brand Terex-Fuchs back to Fuchs , with the addition of a Terex Brand .
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literature
- 90 years of Fuchs . In: Ditzinger Anzeiger, December 8, 1978
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fuchs is looking for a way out of the financial crisis . In: Leonberger Kreiszeitung, November 30, 1984
- ^ Terex implements Fuchs expansion plan , at www.recyclingtoday.com , accessed April 15, 2017