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.
Johann Diederich Conrad Neuhaus
(4.9.1726 - 15.11.1809)
It was in 1745 that our ancestor, Johann Diederich Neuhaus,was found worthy to be registered as a "Fabrickant" (manufacturer) in the "Sprockhövelschen Fabrickenbuch" (Master Scroll of the Factories in the city of Sprockhövel). A "Fabrickant" was a master-craftsman with his own workshop and who delivered his products to the "Fabrick".
The "Fabrick", the "Sprockhövelsche Metallwaren Fabrick" (Metal Working Factory in the city of Sprockhövel) was not a factory in today´s sense of the word but a cooperation of independent blacksmiths who worked together to sell their forged products both in the domestic market and abroad.
There were dozens of small smithies around the city of Witten who wanted to be a "Fabrickant" but they not only had to manufacture to the highest standards they had to work to craftsmanship standards which assured not only quality and professionalism but also the retraining of their offspring.
Apart from the production of general metal works J. Diederich Neuhaus specialised in the manufacture of winches which sold well at these times. He died at the age of 83. His successor was his son Heinrich Wilhelm.