History of Lehnhoff

A journey through a successful company history

Our traditional location grew more than 48 years with our needs. We want to show you the history of our company which today is a professional problem solver at the building industry till the actual date.

 

1960   1962   1966   1968   1980   1984   1989   1995   2001   2005-2007
  1961   1963   1967   1970   1983   1987   1992   1999   2003  

 Please click on the dates at the timeline.

1960

Laufwerksarbeiten
Lehnhoff SeniorOn July, 1st, 1960 our company was founded and named Metallbearbeitung Steinbach GmbH. Company founder Ernst Günter Lehnhoff started the company in a small hall next to Baden-Baden with the remanufacturing of drives.
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1961

The Metallverarbeitung Steinbach GmbH started a small repairshop for construction tools.
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Bauma 1962

1962

Lehnhoff first appeared at the BAUMA in Munich.
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Bauma 1962

1963

The Lehnhoff excavator-tooth-system was invented and established at the market. The first monoblock tooth 331B is drop-forged.
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1966

1966

Fundamental change of programme:
The remanufacturing  of drives stops. Lehnhoff starts with manufacturing backhoe buckets for hydraulic excavators. The first customized buckets are manufactured.
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1967

1967

Invention of the legendary armor steel as an multifunctional wear part for excavating attachments.
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1968

1968

Development of the first tilting bucket (nowadays world wide standard) a further milestone for the building industry and a perfect supplement for the constantly growing selection of highquality Lehnhoff Hartstahl equipments.
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1970

1970

Moving into the new built production plant at the Rungsstrasse.
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1980

After the death of company founder Ernst Günter Lehnhoff his son Peter Alexander Lehnhoff assumed the company as managing partner.
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1983

1983

Market entry as a supplier for dredge equipment.

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1984

1984

Enlargement of the attachment program for hydraulic excavators. Original equipment manufacturer for Komatsu Germany.

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1987

1987

Enlargement of the product range about cutting edge profile and wide flat steel with aprox. 500HB.
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1989

1989

Implementation of the Lehmatic-quickcoupler-system for hydraulic excavators. 

First quickcoupler:
Lehmatic MS03 for Mini-excavator.

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1992

1992

Entire quickcoupler program from 1t mini-excavator to 70t hydraulic-excavator.
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1997

1997

First quickcoupler Lehmatic HS100 for 100t excavator working at demolition.
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1997

1999

Investment in new manufacturing technologies like laser beam cutting and 5 axis machining centre.
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2001

2001

Successful demonstration of every Lehnhoff product at the BAUMA 2001 in Munich. 

30.000 Lehmatic-quickcouplers sold so far!
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2003

2003

Building of a new training and communication centre.

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2007

2005-2007

Enlargement of the production area (12.000 qm² ground) with welding robots and a better low of material for optimising the processing time.

70.000 Lehmatic-quickcouplers sold so far!
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