History
Since 1745 JDN has been manufacturing lifting equipment, now in the seventh generation.
In 1745 our ancestor Johann Diederich Neuhaus was found worthy to be listed as an "industrialist" in the "Sprockhoevelschen Factory Register" and to be accepted in a kind of "Commercial Co-Operative". We have been manufacturing "JDN Hoists" ever since and are now in the seventh generation.
At first we mainly produced jacks with wooden shanks and no carter wanted to travel without these jacks because of the terrible road conditions and the continuous wheel and axle damages.
We still manufacture jacks today but many basic principles have changed. The "Significant Date" for this was in 1952 when we had the idea to put a pneumatic motor to a so far manually operated pulley block.
Main customer of our pneumatic hoists was the coal mining industry where a product has to be robust and reliable if it wants to prove itself.
Towards the end of the 60`s we developed special pneumatic hoists for industrial applications: the JDN Air Hoists "PROFI" series. They can be used wherever there is a danger of explosion or where loads have to be moved very sensitively. For the ship building industry we developed a "PROFI" with a carrying capacity of 100 t.
As the first company in the material handling industry we received the Certificate for Quality Assurance in 1991. In the same year we widened our delivery programme to become a universal supplier of complete crane installations.
In 1998 we launched the compact air hoist of the mini series.
Heinrich Wilhelm Neuhaus
(14.4.1765 – 2.4.1831)
In the same year when the Peace of Tilsit was declared and Westfalia was made a kingdom by Napoleon´s mercy the "Sprockhövelsche Fabrick" came to an end. But it was not the end for Heinrich Wilhelm Neuhausand his smithy. He overcame these difficult times by selling his products on his own so that he could hand over a flourishing business to his son Johann Diederich II. in 1831.
In the possession of the Neuhaus family is an iron to make New Year´s cakes which was made by the founder of the company Diederich Conrad Neuhaus in 1778. On one side of the iron the following words are engraved: Diederich Conrad Neuhaus und Elsa Margareta Beckmann; Anno 1778.