Wacker Neuson
(Wacker Neuson SE)
Headquartered in Munich, Germany, Wacker Neuson SE is the parent company of the Wacker Neuson Group, a global organization that develops, produces and distributes concrete technology, compaction equipment, worksite technology and compact construction equipment, also offering a range of complementary services.
The origins of Wacker Neuson Group lie in the year 1848 when Johann Christian Wacker founded a blacksmith in Dresden. In 1930, the company filed their first patent for an electric rammer for soil compaction.
Since 2005, the Weidemann GmbH has been supplementing the group of companies with compact construction machines for agricultural industries.
It was followed by the restructuring to a joint stock company in May 2007, the company went public (today in the S-DAX). In the same year the Wacker Construction Equipment AG merged with the Austrian Neuson Kramer Baumaschinen AG, which resulted in 2001 from the merger of Neuson Baumaschinen GmbH and Kramer-Werke GmbH.