14/11/2024 – Start of the construction work
Niehoff is expanding its German manufacturing facilities
Maschinenfabrik Niehoff is one of the globally leading manufacturers of machinery for the wire and cable industry and is now expanding its production capacities in Germany in order to meet the growing order volume.
View of the factory from the administration building. © Niehoff
The first walls of the new factory halls at Niehoff’s headquarter in Schwabach are being erected. © Niehoff
Two ground-breaking ceremonies at the company’s headquarters in Schwabach and at its branch plant at Leuterschach marked the start of the construction work.
The factory in Schwabach will be expanded by two halls, a manufacturing hall and a logistics hall, which are scheduled to go into operation in August 2025. Like the existing halls of the modern factory opened in 2015, the two new ones will also have a photovoltaic system on the roofs and use geothermal energy for heating and cooling technology.
At Leuterschach, Niehoff has acquired a further 3,500 m² of factory premises and will build another hall and outdoor facilities there expanding the existing production area by 1,700 m² for storage, assembly and testing. Simultaneously, the new hall will likewise be equipped with a photovoltaic system and will use geothermal energy.
All of the infrastructure projects represent an investment of €15.5 million. The owners of the family business make these investments possible because they put most of the company´s profits into the company, for example in state-of-the-art, energy-saving production facilities. Since the beginning of 2021, 100% of the electricity in both the Schwabach and the Leuterschach factories has been generated from hydropower and is therefore CO2-free.
Having more than 70 years of experience in the manufacture of machinery for the production of non-ferrous wires and their processing into automotive, power, data and special cables, Maschinenfabrik Niehoff is a leader in its industry. The company attaches great importance to the long-term durability of its products and stands for the manufacture of machines featuring reliability, process stability, high productivity, energy and materials efficiency, and reduced CO2 emissions. Consequently, Niehoff is also certified by the German Environmental Auditors Board EMAS, belongs to the Blue Competence sustainability initiative of the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) and with a view to its corporate social responsibility (CSR) cooperates with the international platform for sustainability ratings EcoVadis. Niehoff Group has a workforce of around 1,300 employees worldwide and is comprised of its headquarters, its branch plants at Leuterschach (Germany) and NST in Badalona-Barcelona (Spain), manufacturing subsidiaries in Brazil, the US, the Czech Republic, India, China, and Sweden along with sales and service centers in Japan, Singapore, and Mexico.
