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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | March 29, 1996 (spin-off) |
| resolution | April 24, 2009 |
| Reason for dissolution | Integration in Palfinger Platforms |
| Seat | Krefeld , Germany |
| Number of employees | 225 |
| sales | approx. EUR 50 million |
| Branch | Vehicle manufacturer |
| Website | www.palfinger.com |
WUMAG elevant was a German manufacturer of aerial work platforms and is now part of the Palfinger Group as Palfinger Platforms GmbH, under the Palfinger WUMAG brand . Aerial rescue platforms were also developed in cooperation with Metz .
The company was the market leader in Germany and number three in Europe. Until 2009, the company held the world record for aerial work platforms with a height of 102.5 m.
history
WUMAG elevant was created when WUMAG Niederrhein was split into two companies.
WUMAG Niederrhein
On January 6, 1921, Waggon- und Maschinenbau AG Görlitz (WUMAG) was created from the merger of Görlitzer Maschinenbau-Anstalt and Eisengießerei , AG for the manufacture of railway material and Cottbuser Maschinenbau-Anstalt und Eisengießerei AG . In addition to railway vehicles, u. a., also produces steam boilers, steam turbines and diesel engines. As early as 1923, the company employed 5,100 workers and employees. After the Second World War the company was split up in the GDR and continued as (WUMAG) Görlitzer Maschinenbau or VEB Waggonbau Görlitz .
The general director of WUMAG, Conrad Geerling, founded a repair shop for WUMAG marine diesel engines in Hamburg after the war. In 1946 he met the general director of DUEWAG , Ernst Schroeder. It was agreed that his second oldest son, Günther Schroeder, should be brought into the company. After three months of training at WUMAG Hamburg, he took over the representation of the company in North Rhine-Westphalia. This agency was founded under the name WUMAG Waggon-und-Maschinenbau-Reparaturbetriebe GmbH on June 17, 1948 in Krefeld.
With around 30 employees at the beginning, the focus of the work at WUMAG in Krefeld was initially on the sale, assembly and maintenance of machines and spare parts from Görlitz pre-war and post-war production in Hamburg. The activities were increasingly expanded to include the manufacture and repair of all kinds of machines and steel structures.
Meanwhile, the parent company WUMAG Hamburg, active in mechanical engineering and the manufacture of railway vehicles, grew steadily. 2000 people soon worked in several factories. In the early 1950s, however, the parent company ran into financial difficulties and had to file for bankruptcy in 1953. Expensive custom-made products and the break-up of the parent company also caused difficulties for the now renamed WUMAG Niederrhein, Waggon- und Maschinenbau GmbH . Unlike WUMAG Hamburg, WUMAG Niederrhein survived the crisis.
At the beginning of the 1950s, the WUMAG Niederrhein product range was expanded to include the construction of dump trucks based on the American model. A wide range of hydraulic lifting devices was developed through cooperation with a Düsseldorf hydraulic company. In addition to various tipper bodies, lift trucks based on Tempo delivery trucks began to be built in 1954 - with a load capacity of 3 tons, later up to 5 tons. Around 600 of the 1.5-3 ton pallet trucks were built between 1956 and 1970. Additional pallet trucks and other airport apron vehicles were built for airlines. These included platform trucks, trolleys for air freight and other lift trucks for ground handling such as B. Kitchen service vehicle. In March 1958, the company moved to new premises and started production there at the end of 1959.
The production of aerial work platforms began in 1961. These were initially licensed by the English company Simon Engineering Dudley Ltd. manufactured under the brand name Wumag-Simon. The first own aerial work platforms were presented in 1963 - the devices of the U series (up to 12 m working height). The larger devices were initially imported from England. However, not only were the equipment boxes and chassis covers from our own production installed, but also the chassis subframe (the anchoring of supports and booms screwed to the chassis) came from our own production. The design as a swap body was also possible at the customer's request. At the same time, special products such as aerial work platforms for lining converters in steel production were also manufactured as rail vehicles. When license production ended in 1973, own designs were developed. In 1974 the first self-developed working platform came onto the market - the WO 235 with a working height of 23.5 m. The new brand name elevant was found for the aerial work platforms through an internal tender . WUMAG elevant later advertised in a brochure: "This composition of 'elephant' and 'elevator' combines the meaning of 'lifting device' with the proverbial stability of the pachyderm, which also became a fundamental characteristic of the WUMAG elevant aerial work platforms." On July 26, 1975, the elevant trademark was registered with the German Patent Office . Concrete booms for truck- mounted concrete pumps were also built . However, assembly and sales were carried out by the manufacturers of the concrete pumps. At times, the side booms and rear cranes for the crawlers from Hanomag and Caterpillar were supplied by WUMAG. By the end of the 1970s, the product range was streamlined considerably. WUMAG now concentrated on aerial work platforms and cylinder production, which emerged in 1955 from container construction and sheet steel processing, from which WUMAG texroll later emerged. In July 1987, WUMAG Niederrhein had more than 200 employees for the first time.
After the reunification in the GDR , there was a cooperation with the Saxon SFL Spezialfahrzeugbau Löbau , which was looking for a West German partner. In the course of this, WUMAG Löbau GmbH was founded with Krefeld capital . Initially, the new company rented SFL. The move to own production halls in neighboring Ebersbach took place in January 1995, whereby the name of the company was changed to "WUMAG GmbH Werk Ebersbach". The factory was officially inaugurated on June 17th. The production of WUMAG aerial work platforms on truck chassis up to 45 m working height was concentrated in Ebersbach. The production of the larger models took place in Krefeld. The first German company the access industry WUMAG was elevant 29001 in November 1993 in accordance with ISO 9001 / EN certified . SFL then developed its own lifting platforms under the brand name Bison Stematec.
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In the same year the WT 260 was presented. At 18 m, the device achieved the largest lateral reach of access platforms on 7.5 t chassis at the time and is still one of the top devices in its class. This was achieved through the CAD optimization of the telescope dimensions, which was not yet common at the time, and the processing of fine-grain structural steel, as well as the programmable logic controller instead of the conventional extensive elimination of electronics. Also new was the use of the load torque limiter , which enables significantly greater lateral ranges, as well as a cage impact protection and the optical / acoustic battery voltage monitoring.
WUMAG important
On March 19, 1996, WUMAG Niederrhein and the Krefeld premises were divided up according to the new structure. In addition to the active in the business of engineering and Zylinderbaues WUMAG TEXROLL GmbH & Co. KG which originated WUMAG GmbH & Co. KG elevant for the Hubarbeitsbühnenbau, which also includes the WUMAG GmbH factory Ebersbach was affiliated. With the WT 850, the highest working platform in the world at that time was presented in 2000 with a height of 84 m. In 2001 the WT 700 was presented. At a height of 70 meters, the load-bearing capacity was one ton - a unique selling point at the time. Two years later, the WT 450 followed, with a working height of 45 meters and a payload of 700 kg, with a side reach of around 30 m at a maximum of 100 kg. WUMAG is one of the pioneers in the heavy-duty sector. The lifts in the heavy-duty area were equipped with the powerlift system to lift loads such as large panes of glass without a crane on the outside of the work cart.
In April 2002 a collaboration between AICHI , the market leader in Asia, was agreed. WUMAG built heavy-duty platforms of the TZ series on European chassis, while AICHI was to take over the sales of WUMAG large and heavy-duty platforms in the Asia-Pacific region. With the WT 270, the successor to the WT 260 was presented in May 2001. The one meter higher stage was brought to a lateral range of 19.8 m. The fully flexible support was innovative, with the load moment limit adapting to the current support configuration (LMB, angle-dependent limitation of the lateral reach). In June the revised WT 575 was presented, which achieved the record side range of 40 meters.
In 2004 the company started working with the fire service specialist Metz Aerials . The cooperation resulted in a telescopic mast vehicle with a height of 52 m, which is still in use by the Berlin fire brigade today. In 2006 a vehicle with a height of 32 m was presented. As a result, other vehicles of this type were created. Based on the access platforms from WUMAG, the vehicles are converted by Metz for the requirements of the fire brigade and equipped accordingly. The extended range shutdown developed by WUMAG was registered for a patent in September 2004. In contrast to conventional LMB, the inclination of the aerial work platform is also monitored and the range adjusted accordingly. In the same year CharterLift, a company for sales financing of new and used aerial work platforms, was bought and integrated into the company as Elevant Finance GmbH .
In December 2006, 76.6% of the shares in MAGEBA Maschinen- und Gerätebau GmbH Seifhennersdorf were acquired. This company was founded in 1958 as a production cooperative for handicrafts (PGH), converted into VEB Drahtwaren Hermsdorf in 1972 and integrated into the Dresden-Hellerau furniture combination in 1980/81 . After the privatization, business relationships were established with WUMAG Werk Ebersbach GmbH in the nineties, with steel and aluminum components being supplied. With 45 employees, sales of € 2.6 million were achieved in 2006. On January 1, 2007, WUMAG Mageba Stahl- und Gerätebau GmbH, one of the main suppliers for high-precision steel construction, was integrated into the WUMAG Group.
On September 7th 2007 the WT 1000 was presented, the development of which started in May 2006. WUMAG achieved a world record with a working height of 102.5 m. Despite the increased height of the Bronto work platforms , this is currently (March 2011) the world's highest all-terrain access platform.
Unlike previous devices, the WT 1000 was not built on a truck series chassis. A TADANO FAUN ATF 110 G-5 AT crane chassis (10x8 traction, 530 HP), with crab steering for sideways movement , was used in order to be able to do without lengthy conversions and reinforcements and to stay below the maximum limit of 60 tonnes total weight for Europe-wide road approval of the vehicle. For the first time, it was possible to swivel the arm system into the working position before erecting it so that the rear of the vehicle could be approached directly to an object.
For the municipal sector in Northern Europe, light aerial work platforms with a maximum working height of 15.5 m on panel vans were developed, which are also in demand in Germany. Unlike conventional devices, these are not pure articulated platforms, but have a telescopic lifting arm.
WUMAG Palfinger / Palfinger Platforms
At the end of 2007, Palfinger announced the takeover of WUMAG elevant and WUMAG Mageba, which were completed in autumn 2008. In April 2009, Palfinger Platforms was founded as the umbrella for the Palfinger aerial work platform brands WUMAG-PALFINGER and Bison-PALFINGER and the previous companies were merged to form the new one.
In 2011 the first WT 1000 was delivered to Australia. Over the years, the brands WUMAG-Simon, WUMAG elevant and WUMAG Palfinger have been used for the aerial work platforms.
Web links
Individual evidence
- Waggon- und Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft mbH (publisher): 25 years of WUMAG Niederrhein . Düsseldorf-Buchdruck, Krefeld September 1973, p. 44 , col. 1 .
- more @ TURCK, 2008, Turck
- Stage magazine, KM-Verlag
- ke CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING, publisher modern industry
- Crane & Stage, Vertical Publishing
- Palfinger World, Palfinger Platforms
- www.wumag.de ( Memento from May 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- www.hanomag-kurier.de
- Wumag image brochure, WUMAG elevant
- Entry in the commercial register of WUMAG MAGEBA GmbH ( extract )
- ↑ PALFINGER takes over leading German manufacturer of aerial work platforms
- ↑ Closing of the takeover of the Wumag access platform area ( page can no longer be accessed , 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.
- ↑ a b "Please click on an Elevanten" ( 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. (PDF; 5.1 MB)
- ↑ 1988 - 1998: In reunified Germany ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Facing the competition together (PDF; 294 kB)
- ↑ WUMAG ELEVANT
- ↑ Customer-oriented restructuring (PDF; 485 kB)
- ↑ Heavier calibers (PDF; 458 kB)
- ↑ Berlin Fire Brigade - Telescopic Mast ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ WUMAG WT 1000 ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2016 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.
- ↑ The world's highest aerial work platform
- ↑ Palfinger WORLD No. 17 ( 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.
- ↑ Three under one roof
- ↑ WT1000 Down Under (PDF; 6.8 MB)
