Montanhydraulik GmbH

An overview of the group of companies

With 10 locations and more than 1,100 employees worldwide, the Montanhydraulik group is among the top addresses for hydraulic cylinders and hydraulic systems. As an international group of companies, our locations include Germany, Italy, India, Canada, and the USA. Every company in the production network possesses specific knowledge and skills which benefit the customer thanks to the close collaboration within the group of companies. This applies not only to new concepts, but also to the optimisation and further development of the product range, and also to ensuring delivery performance.

Within the group of companies, the development of high-quality cylinders, valves, and aggregates is a tradition of many years, and is therefore a technological core skill. Building on this base, the group, as an internationally leading, innovative, and future-oriented partner, also offers its customers the implementation of sophisticated application-specific system solutions. The Montanhydraulik Group’s comprehensive repair and maintenance services help to ensure the availability of our customers’ equipment and systems and to further extend the life of hydraulic systems, thereby contributing to the sustainable use of resources. Our international customer base of many years includes well-known companies from the areas of:

Mobile cranes
Construction and earth-moving machinery
Tunnel boring machinery
Onshore and offshore industry, oil and gas industry
Hydropower
Industrial technology
Waste management
On-road industry

Supplier relations

Our healthy and close cooperation with all our business partners describes one of the decisive basics of our business activities. Just as with our national and international customers, employees and service providers, we also place great value on long-term and trusting relationships and cooperation with our suppliers.

With open and honest communication, appreciation, transparency and high reliability, we create an atmosphere of trust with our suppliers, which contributes to the economic handling of all business processes. To the same extent, our suppliers support a smooth process with a high degree of adherence to delivery dates and flexibility and contribute to the economic efficiency of all processes. Trust, esteem and honesty as well as a partnership-based understanding of the needs and perspectives of the business partner form the basis for a responsible interaction.

Mission & success factors

A close identification with the requirements of customers who are internationally active is the guarantee for continuity, reliability, and trust. Our code of values is a significant component of our compliance, and is supported jointly and embraced consistently by all employees. Transparent, flexible, and efficient business processes throughout the length of the value creation chain ensure for the long term the excellent reputation as a skilled and reliable business with a powerful mission.

Quality leadership for all products and systems
Maximum schedule adherence and high delivery performance
Technical leadership

Die Unternehmen der Montanhydraulik-Gruppe

History: moving forwards for more than 65 years

Since 1952, the history of Montanhydraulik has been characterised by permanent growth. A success which did not just come from out of the blue, but which instead is based upon far-sighted entrepreneurial decisions and the development of innovative solutions.

In the same way, the decision to purchase or found companies was based on the recognition of chances which presented themselves, as well as on the strategic vision for the growth of the company. In this respect, our locations also reflect the development of the Montanhydraulik group.

QUALITY IS THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS

All our locations are connected by the high quality which characterises our hydraulic cylinders and which permeates our entire process chain as a constant requirement.

All our works have appropriate certification, but this is far from being enough for us to guarantee a maximum level of quality to our customers.

We use modern machine tools, welding robots, automatic installation and testing equipment, galvanisation equipment, and special machinery which was further developed to our requirements from standard machinery.

However, the highest quality is not merely a question of technology, but above all of People and of processes. We therefore continuously invest in highly qualified personnel and in continuous improvement processes in all areas of the company.

In this way, modern manufacturing and testing technology, as well as our employees, form the cornerstones of our quality philosophy.

“Zero-defect philosophy”

We consider problems and detected defects as a chance for innovation and improvement. Each and every staff member has the duty and the right to contribute to the detection and elimination of defects, produce flawless quality and avoid or reduce environmental impacts. The prevention of defects has priority over their detection.

TÜV certificate: Quality management DIN EN ISO 9001:2015
Certificate of welding suitability as per DIN 2303, DIN EN ISO 3834-2, and DIN EN 15085-2
Manufacturer approvals as per the Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) 2014/68/EU and AD 2000-HPO

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QUALITY IS NOT A COINCIDENCE – IT IS A SYSTEMATIC COMMITMENT

THE BASIS OF OUR MANUFACTURING: HIGH TECH AND EXPERIENCE

In recent years, we have single-mindedly extended our various manufacturing locations according to their respective product focal points, and at the same time we have created very modern production plants. In this way, we achieve a very high level of flexibility, concentrate the relevant skills, and are able to optimise set-up times even for more modest manufacturing lot sizes.

Our production department possesses extensive manufacturing skills which, in addition to the very modern machine park, are founded on an experienced employee base consisting of skilled workers and manufacturing specialists.

Montanhydraulik’s employees, who work using the most modern computerised methods, are correspondingly well trained. They supplement their theoretical calculations by means of test rig investigations, in which both evidence of operational stability is furnished and basic research is also performed.

The ever more demanding requirements for components and systems mean that knowledge about the behaviour of components and materials is a prerequisite, especially because our products are often major components of machinery and plant. For this reason, we work closely together with our customers, use the exchange of knowledge and experience in order to develop solutions for new application questions and strive for continuous further development of our products and production processes.

INNOVATION: SETTING MORE IN MOTION

The technology centre at our headquarters in Holzwickede represents the innovative force of the Montanhydraulik group. This is where the knowledge about hydraulic cylinders, gained over the decades by Montanhydraulik since the foundation of the company, is combined and applied. Research, development, and new design are combined together here under one roof, where they benefit from mutual interchange.

Completely in line with our motto “Setting more in motion”, we work closely together with our customers in order to develop innovative solutions for demanding challenges. This refers above all to hydraulic cylinders which on the one hand resist high loadings and adverse environmental conditions, and on the other hand comply with tight tolerances – completely regardless whether underwater, offshore, opencast or deep mining, in the blistering heat or Arctic cold.

3-D design programs, finite element calculation programs, and calculation and simulation processes which have been independently further developed are available to our designers for the solution of complex challenges. The challenges posed to Montanhydraulik have various focal points: Weight and cost optimisation, fatigue strength, corrosion resistance, and freedom from maintenance. In order to implement the interfaces to the relevant machinery and plant of our customers, our engineers develop drive controls, highly complex control technology, integrated position sensors, and special valves.

Our success speaks for us: In over three decades of development, Montanhydraulik has brought out more than 66 patents worldwide in the area of hydraulics technology.

WE TAKE OUR RESPONSIBILITY SERIOUSLY

As an internationally operating group of companies with headquarters in Germany, our responsibility to people and to the regions in which we are based is taken very seriously.

For many years, we have expressed our social commitment through the support of local sports teams, long term sponsoring, and cultural events.

However, our responsibility towards young people is particularly close to our hearts. For this reason, we invest in their training in order to provide them with a vocational perspective.

In own training centres at different locations, Montanhydraulik trains the next generation of skilled workers for its complex machine park.

In addition, Montanhydraulik makes the necessary practical training available to engineering students, as part of their dual study for the Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor of Arts.

With a training quota of around eight percent, Montanhydraulik offers young people a future – often extending beyond the duration of the training period: Out of the employees trained in the last ten years, around 90 percent are still employed in the company.