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.
Wilfried Neuhaus-Galladé
(19.4.1957)
On joining the company in 1986, the task for Wilfried Neuhaus-Galladé was that of adapting the family-owned business to the changed conditions predominant in global markets as well as setting a new course. A truly formidable challenge. In view of the decline in the German mining industry, a significant restructuring process was necessary. The plan was invariably to “go global” with innovative products.
Wilfried Neuhaus-Galladé therefore set up a worldwide sales system and founded subsidiaries in the USA, France, England, Singapore and China, to name but a few.
The result speaks for itself:
whereas the proportion of exports in 1980 was still below 5%, today it is above 70%.
Entering into new markets or market segments as well as continuous product optimisation was and is an important part of the company’s strategy.
Under the leadership of W. Neuhaus-Galladé, the entire JDN industry product line has been revised within the last ten years.
Examples of this are the relaunch of the PROFI series in 2003, the introduction of winches in 2004 or the relaunch of the “small” PROFI series in 2005. With a range of patented innovations and a consistent reduction in the number of components, they characterise the current technological standards with regard to air hoists.
Based on Kaizen, a Japanese philosophy of life and work which follows the guiding principle of continuous improvement und step-by-step perfection, J.D. Neuhaus has for several years been striving towards the optimisation of workplaces and processes. We continuously invest in the training of our employees and strictly control our quality.
In this way, the course has been set for dynamic and future-oriented development.
The skills, motivation and commitment of our employees are first class and there is a wealth of potential for ideas and entrepreneurial imagination.
We are ready for the future!