Jungheinrich

Juergen Peddinghaus, Chairman

The Jungheinrich AG, headquartered in Hamburg, is a publicly traded company in the material handling equipment, warehousing and material flow engineering sectors. In these segments, the company ranks in third place worldwide, in Europe in second place.

History

Friedrich Jungheinrich based on 7 August 1953, the H. Jung, Heinrich & Co. Maschinenfabrik, Hamburg. The first foreign branch opens in 1956 in Austria. 1958 opens the corporate headquarters with factory in Hamburg -Wandsbek.

A site in today's Norderstedt 1966 and acquired gradually to 1984 shifted production from Hamburg there. The company founder Friedrich Jungheinrich dies on 28 January 1968. 1974 starts the rental and used equipment business with its own organization. In 1989 the construction of the plant Lüneburg. The first Eastern European branches will be established in the Czech Republic and Hungary in 1991.

1994 acquires Jungheinrich the Capricorn and Boss Group. The production facilities in France, the UK and Spain are closed and production transferred to Germany. 2002, the Group brands MIC, Capricorn and Boss were abandoned and since then sells equipment only under the brand name Jungheinrich.

2004 Dr. Friedrich Jungheinrich Foundation is established. Since 2004, the Jungheinrich hand pallet trucks are available from the Chinese joint venture partner Ningbo Ruyi Zhejiang of China. The company is presenting in 2005 the world's first forklift truck with rotating cab. In 2006 an assembly plant in the Chinese Qingpu was opened in Shanghai. This electric-powered pallet truck can be mounted. The fabricated low and high- lift trucks are used to supply the Jungheinrich sales in China and the Asian market. Also in 2006, took the used equipment -Zentrum Dresden for reprocessing of used equipment on the operation.

Since 2007, Jungheinrich is building its spare parts supply and after Eastern Europe. For this purpose, a logistics center with over 450 pallet spaces and a storage area of ​​1,500 m² was built in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2009, Jungheinrich begins production of electric pallet trucks at its new plant in Landsberg in Saxony- Anhalt.

2011 carried the ground-breaking ceremony for a new plant of Jungheinrich Lift Truck Manufacturing Co., Ltd.. in Qingpu ( District Shanghai ), and the foundation stone for a new spare parts center in cold churches in Schleswig -Holstein.

Listing

In 1990, the domestic companies merge, then they operate in a corporation that is going public with preference shares and was listed on August 30, 1990 for the first time. The ordinary shares and management control remains with the families of the two daughters of the company 's founder. The Jungheinrich share is part of the SDAX.

Products and services

The product range consists of forklift trucks, shelving systems and services for warehouse logistics. The services include: rental and sales financing, maintenance and repair of equipment, reconditioning and sale of used equipment.

The name Ant is a registered trademark of Jungheinrich professional shop and is often used as a synonym for manual or electric lift trucks.

Furthermore, the portfolio comprises intra- logistics solutions, regardless of the degree of automation of the analysis, planning, project planning and implementation to after- sales service. The Jungheinrich AG offers this among others their warehouse management system ( WMS), and data broadcasting services and data radio equipment. Also automatic high-bay warehouse (HBW ) and automatic small parts warehouse (AKL ) and combined systems are offered.

Rental

The European rental fleet consists of 23,000 trucks with 600 vehicle variants with capacities from 1 tonne to 42 tonnes and lift heights up to 14 m.

Mail order business

With the catalog " Jungheinrich PROFISHOP " Jungheinrich offers companies a range for stacking and lifting, transportation, warehouse, factory and office equipment, health and safety and the environment. Since 2007, the PROFISHOP also in Austria.

Locations

The company is represented in 31 Group-owned sales and service offices worldwide. In addition, Jungheinrich through dealers, especially in the overseas markets, a presence. The Group has a total of about 100 countries, including also includes the assembly plant in Qingpu in the People's Republic of China and the logistics center for Eastern Europe in Bratislava.

Germany

• Hamburg, corporate headquarters
• Norderstedt, production, delivery of spare parts
• Lüneburg, production
• Moosburg an der Isar, production, planning and realization of complete systems
• Dresden, Used Computer center
• 17 distribution centers in Germany
• Landsberg ( near Halle ) production