Weidemann (company)

Weidemann GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1960
Seat	Diemelsee - Flechtdorf , Germany
management	Bernd Apfelbeck (Commercial Director); Martin Eppinger (technical managing director);
Number of employees	approx. 450 (2015)
sales	1,533.9 million EUR (Group sales Wacker Neuson 2017)
Branch	Agricultural machinery
Website	www.weidemann.de

Weidemann production plant in Korbach

Weidemann Hoftrac WSTS 130 FD from 1974

The Weidemann GmbH is an international company for agricultural machinery based in Diemelsee - Flechtdorf in Waldeck-Frankenberg in Hesse . It produces farm tracs , wheel loaders , telescopic wheel loaders and classic telescopic loaders , which are preferably used on farms for feeding, littering, manure, loading and stacking. Company locations are Diemelsee-Flechtdorf and Korbach . The company is part of the Wacker Neuson Group.

history

Maschinenfabrik Weidemann KG was founded in Diemelsee-Flechtdorf (Hesse) in 1960. Initially, between 1960 and 1972, the company concentrated on the manufacture of stable equipment and manure removal. In 1972 Weidemann invented the Hoftrac or farm loader . This small articulated machine was specially designed for narrow and low stalls.

In 1979 the company was renamed Weidemann GmbH und Co. KG. Weidemann expanded further in the following years. At the beginning of the 1990s, the first foreign company was founded in the Netherlands and operations began in Plant III in Gotha ( Thuringia ). There is no longer any production there.

In 2005, what was then Wacker Construction Equipment AG (now Wacker Neuson SE) took over Weidemann, which involved a further expansion of production capacities. In 2007 the production plant in Korbach was completed. Since then, Weidemann GmbH has been a 100% subsidiary of Wacker Neuson SE.

Weidemann machines are sold worldwide in over 30 countries through our own organizations in close cooperation with specialist dealers. Weidemann has produced more than 100,000 machines since 1960 (as of 2017).