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.
Max Neuhaus
(1.1.1900 – 5.2.1984)
The next chapter of our story begins exactly one minute after the beginning of the 20th century. At midnight on the 1st of January 1900 a new son was born in the Neuhaus house. He was the seventh son of the couple Louis and Emma Neuhaus who saw the light of day in this remarkable hour and who became the fifth winch manufacturer. He was christened Max.
After leaving school he wanted to become an industrial tradesman and so he started an apprenticeship with the company "Dittmann-Neuhaus und Gabriel-Bergenthal" in the city of Herbede. Whilst working in various industrial companies he was constantly reminded about the ever decreasing business in his parent´s company as the work to be done after the 1st world war consisted mainly of the repair of old winches.
Consequently at the age of 17 Max Neuhaus made the first steps towards learning how to regenerate the J.D. Neuhaus family business. When he was 19 he entered the company and became the company secretary and took overall responsibility for running the business. Building on the tradition of the house of his parents he specialised in the trade of winches and lifting equipment which he expanded steadily by astute promotion of the company products. He also continued the repair aspect of the business. The profits from the business were reinvested in new machinery and in 1923 the workshop was greatly enlarged. The first powered transmission driven machine tools were also acquired at this time..
The year 1925 was a very important one for Max Neuhaus and his company. From the Reichsbahn-Zentralamt (Central Office of the German Railway) in Berlin he won an order for 300 rail lifting winches. This order was a sound basis for further extending the fabrication facilities. And soon another order for 300 items of rail lifting winches followed so that he could increase the work force to 25 people.
After the second world war the underground coalmines continued to request Neuhaus equipment. In 1952 in order to fulfil this ever increasing demand a new manufacturing area was built for which the plans had been drawn for some time. This year his eldest son J. Diederich Neuhaus, entered the company as a dedicated and indispensable member.