A third branch has since been founded, Hüffermann Transport Systems (Hüffermann Transportsysteme), located in Brandenburg.
There we build trailers, as well as transport logistic systems for interchangeable container operations. We build trailers for agricultural vehicles, too.
In previous years we built trucks to transport waste. In cooperation with the company NTM, we have been building garbage trucks since 2011.
We bring all of our experience in the crane business to trailer manufacturing. Hüffermann Transport Systems has 170 employees and maybe 5-6 people are there to ensure transport works with lifting. The Transport side builds trailers and vehicles for us, we use the vehicles to arrange the projects and bring them into action.
We have 45 employees that manage 32 cranes, trucks and other vehicles. We also have mobile cranes, mobile construction cranes, compact cranes, hydraulic cranes, trucks, platforms and boom lifts.
Many of our cranes are Liebherr. We also have two from Grove and three from Tadano Faun.
The construction industry, as well as and oil and gas industries, use our cranes. We also provide crane services to clients working on solar and wind power energy projects up to 220t. It’s a good business in Germany.
Currently Rolf Hüffermann and I manage the four bases in Wildeshausen, Vechta, Bremen, and Wilhelmshaven.
For many years, the crane business belonged to the Hüffermann family, and now that there isn’t a director from the family to take it over, Hüffermann is selling to me in the next years.
Hüffermann Krandienst will continue to use the same name because it’s a company with a long tradition: up to 100 years in 2013.
We opened a new base in Vechta at the end of the last year and will receive three new cranes in February, so no more cranes in this year I think.
We don’t feel the impact of the financial crisis: The business is going well and perspectives look good for the future.
