The Founder - Heinrich Aumund
1922 marks the commencement of the Group's history with the foundation of an engineering office by Professor Heinrich Aumund.
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The company founder owned about 200 patents for innovative conveying and lifting equipment. As an acknowledged expert for all aspects of mechanical handling and conveying technique he held a chair at the Polytechnical College in Berlin.
Coal handling with Aumund conveyors
The initial business purpose of his engineering office was to use the founder's patents and to implement his numerous ideas for a large range of applications in the mining and metallurgical industry.
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The Founder - Heinrich Aumund
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To be close to the customers in the Mining and Steel Industry, he eventually moved to the Ruhr area and settled in Homberg, near Duisburg.
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Günter-Claus Aumund
The Second Generation
1951 his son, Günter-Claus Aumund, took over the engineering office.
On account of the expanding business, he soon decided to add equipment manufacture to the engineering services which, at that time were still the core business of the company. He found the adequate premises for the company-owned workshops at a just 30 minutes’ drive from Duisburg in Rheinberg, where the company's main office has been located until today.
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Günther-Claus AUMUND
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Manufacture in the first workshop started in 1956. As a result of the increasing success of Aumund conveying equipment, regular extensions of the workshops and construction of office blocks followed over the years.
First workshop in Rheinberg 1956
With the downturn in the mining and steel industry in the late Fifties and early Sixties, market diversification became a major issue. Thanks to the company's expertise in the design and manufacture of conveying equipment for hot and abrasive materials¬_achieved in the mining and steel industry, the cement industry started to be a target market with new opportunities and the first references in the cement industry were recorded as early as 1962.
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Franz-Walter Aumund
The Third Generation
In 1966 Franz-Walter Aumund joined the family business.
Taking into account the growing importance of the export market, he started to build up a worldwide network with sales and engineering offices and workshops for domestic manufacture and created the platform allowing to adapt to the fast changing markets. Research and development of new technologies and cooperation with the customer, plant operators and project engineers resulted in the continuous development of the product range. |
Franz-Walter Aumund
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In 1982 Franz-Walter Aumund took over the management in the third generation. With his strategy targeting product and service quality, new industries and a worldwide presence, Aumund soon became a global supplier of conveying equipment.
The AUMUND GROUP
In the early Nineties, the Aumund product range was enhanced by the equipment of Louise Maschinenfabrik, acquired in 1991. Further equipment was added by the takeover of Schade in 2001 and B&W Mechanical Handling in 2002.
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