Schwing GmbH is a German manufacturer of mobile and stationary concrete pumps and truck mixers, headquartered in Herne, as well as the parent company of

Schwing Stetter Schwing Stetter GmbH, headquartered in Memmingen, Germany, is a manufacturer of concrete mixers and concrete transport systems. With over 600 employees at the Memmingen site, Schwing Stetter is one of the largest employers in the city. In 1982, it ...

Memmingen Memmingen (; Swabian: ''Memmenge'') is a town in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is the economic, educational and administrative centre of the Danube-Iller region. To the west the town is flanked by the Iller, the river that marks the Baden-Wü ...

. The business group is the world's second largest

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manufacturer, behind

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, also a German manufacturer and subsidiary of the

XCMG Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group Co., Ltd. (XCMG Group) ( zh, s=徐工集团, p=Xúgōng Jítuán) is a Chinese multinational state-owned heavy machinery manufacturing company with headquarters in Xuzhou, Jiangsu. Founded in 1989, XCMG ...

group. The company employs more than 3300 people worldwide in seven countries. In addition, there are individual distribution companies in more than 100 countries.

History

The Schwing Group was founded as a medium-sized enterprise on 17 March 1934, by Friedrich Wilhelm Schwing (* 1909; † 1992), a locksmith from Wanne-Eickel. In 1957, Schwing built the world's first oil-hydraulic two-cylinder concrete pump. Starting in 1964, the company also built the first large concrete mixers. In 1965, the company launched its first

which was mounted on a vehicle, and improved it in 1968 with the addition of a distribution mast. In 1973, the company built a high-speed

vehicle with a 45-meter-wide large distribution mast, an outstanding innovation at that time. In 1976, Schwing launched the first residual concrete processing plant on the market. After the company founder handed over the company management to his two sons in 1980, they acquired the company Stetter GmbH in Memmingen in 1982, which produced truck mixers. The company's market domicile and the company's

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expanded. The company was now able to offer combined mixers with a concrete pump mounted on it and developed into a market leader. At the end of the nineties there was a dispute between the owners, the company was about to sell to an American company. With the help of banks, a state guarantee and private assets, Gerhard Schwing succeeded in buying his brothers shares. Until 3 October 2013, he was the sole Managing Director of the GmbH. In 2012 Schwing was taken over by the Chinese producer

for €300 million."UPDATE 1-China's XCMG buys majority of Germany's Schwing"
''Reuters'', 2012-04-19

Other companies in the group

(Sorted by year) *since 1971 ''SCHWING GmbH'', St. Stefan (

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) *since 1974 ''SCHWING Hydraulik Elektronik GmbH'', Herne (Deutschland) *since 1974 ''SCHWING America Inc.'', White Bear Township (

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) *since 1976 ''SCHWING Equipamentos Industriais Ltda.'',

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(

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) *since 1982 ''SCHWING-Stetter S.A.'',

Souffelweyersheim Souffelweyersheim (; also german: Suffelweyersheim, ; gsw, Süffelwirsche in the Alsatian dialect) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department, Alsace, Grand Est, northeastern France, and is part of metropolitan Strasbourg. Etymology Souffelweyers ...

(

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) *since 1982 ''SCHWING-Stetter B.V.'',

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(

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) *since 1982 ''SCHWING-Stetter Baumaschinen Ges.mbH'',

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(Austria) *since 1993 ''Puschkiner Baumaschinenwerk'',

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(

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) *since 1993 ''SCHWING Stetter Ostrava s.r.o.'',

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(

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) *since 1994 ''SCHWING Shanghai Machinery Company Ltd.'',

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) *since 1997 ''SCHWING GmbH Korea'',

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(

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) *since 1998 ''M/s SCHWING-Stetter India Pvt. Ltd.'',

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(

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) *since 1999 ''SCHWING-Stetter Skandinavien AB'',

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)

References

External links

www.schwing.de

www.stetter.de
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