The History of the Company

The company was founded by Hans Crummenerl in 1955 in Herscheid-Friedlin. The first small iron and machine keys were made in a small workshop behind the living house.

In 1962/63 the company moved to a new building in the outskirts of Herscheid. The production facility was expanded several times over the years and the production area covered several thousand square metres.

In January 2012 Dr.-Ing. Hubert Nägele took over the majority of the company shares. Dr. Nägele was born as son of diplomats in Singapore and spent most of his childhood in foreign countries. After military service and university study of mechanical engineering at the University of Clausthal he made a PhD in metal forming techniques at the University of Hannover. After several stations in Industry he quit his job as a CEO and took over the majority at the Crummenerl GmbH. Dr. Nägele is married and has 3 children.

The technology of the company has been continuously updated. The company now has a wide range of machinery at its disposal. Crummenerl uses modern CNC and metalworking technology to provide customers with excellent quality, at competitive pricing and performance-ratio and short delivery times.

At the beginning of 2016 the plant was moved to a new and larger facility in Plettenberg, which is located 15 kilometres from the old plant in Herscheid. The plant is now much bigger and offers excellent options for expansion. It comes along with the new facility that material flow was reorganized using value stream analysis methods.

In cooperation with ILS GmbH from Karlsruhe we did a value stream management and the material flow inside production was re-organised on this basis. [ to the article ]