KHD Humboldt Wedag
KHD Humboldt Wedag (KHD) is an international engineering company that supplies machinery, automation solutions, spare parts, and services, including process engineering and project management, to the global cement industry.[1] Based in Cologne, Germany, the company employs more than 850 people worldwide, operating subsidiaries covering the Americas, India, the CIS\, and the Asia-Pacific Region, as well as sales offices in Türkiye, UAE, and Iran.[2] The holding company KHD Humboldt Wedag International AG is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.[3] == History == Early Years: 1856 - 1945 KHD traces its roots back to the mid-19th Century and the foundation of predecessor company, Maschinenfabrik für den Bergbau von Sievers & Co., by Martin Neuerberg, Wimmer Breuer, and Hermann Sievers in the Cologne suburb of Kalk.[4] The company initially focused on the manufacture of perforated steel sheets for screens, jigs, and percussion tables used in the mining industry. Under the leadership of Neuerberg, the product range expanded, and the company established a name for itself within the European mineral processing industry.[5] In 1871, the company adopted the name Maschinenbau A.G. Humboldt, in honor of German scientist, Alexander von Humboldt, before being liquidated and reformed as Maschinenbau Anstalt Humboldt in 1884.[6] In the 1890s, the company moved into the manufacture steam locomotives, delivering its first locomotive in 1898.[7] In the early 20th Century, another German industrialist, Peter Klöckner, began to have an increasing influence on the company.