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.
Louis Neuhaus
(31.10.1848 – 20.2.1905)
One year after his father´s death he married Emma Brinkhoff who was going to play an important part in the history. But everything in succession: Under the leadership of Louis Neuhaus the company specialised more. The rapidly increasing mining industry prospered from the growth in general industry which was - apart from the consumption of coal in private households - the main consumer. In addition the mining industry created jobs in other service industries due to it's high demand on the machinery and equipment required to process the coal.
One of the tools more frequently requested was the Neuhaus winch. Although the Neuhaus company was not yet much more than a manual smithy with a winch fabrication facility Louis expanded the business with great success. He demolished the old smithy and built a much larger smithy next to the family dwelling where the first manually driven manufacturing machines began production of winches.