ENGINEERED FOR

EXTREMES

The world market leader quite honestly, this title fills me with deep respect. Doubtless one of the reasons for this is the fact that I know what this means from per-sonal experience dating back to 2011. I know what goes on behind the scenes and the efforts that people make. Thats because our company, J.D. Neuhaus, first achieved this position in 2011. All of us, both here in Witten and in our international subsidiaries, have consistently poured our efforts into the pursuit of this objective for many years.

We have placed the company on a broader technological footing. In addition to compressed air, we have estab-

lished hydraulics as the second drive medium for our hoists and cranes, enabling us to offer solutions for a wider range of extreme conditions. Furthermore, we have significantly expanded our plant construction opera-tions. We design and produce complex crane systems for increasing numbers of customers as general solutions. Having achieved this, we wanted to formulate our more ambitious performance promise in a concise way that would be internationally comprehensible: engineered for extremes. This is also the title of the next chapter in the success story of our company, which will soon celebrate its 270th anniversary. We have already written the first few lines.

ThE NEXT chapTER IN OuR SuccESS STORy.

Wilfried Neuhaus-GalladJ.D. Neuhaus GmbH & Co. KG

Regards

J.D. NEuhauS GREw aS paRT OF ThE GERMaN EcONOMIc MIRaclE.

wE alSO STaRTED ThE pROcESS OF GlOBalISaTION 30 yEaRS aGO.

Our good name is doing the rounds worldwide.

The fact that J.D. Neuhaus does not rest on its histo-rical achievements is demonstrated by recent and cur-rent developments. For example, our share of exports has been increased from 5 % in 1980 to 80 % today. Decisive factors here were the foundation of our for-eign subsidiaries in the USA, Great Britain, France, Singapore and China, as well as our involvement in the Brazilian, Russian and Indian markets. In total, we export to more than 90 countries around the globe. Moreover, we have long ceased to concentrate merely on the mining industry, as was still the case in the 1950s. Pneumatic and hydraulic hoists and crane systems carrying the J.D. Neuhaus trade mark are now in use in over 70 different industries. Demand is particularly high in the oil and gas exploration and processing sectors, in mining, the chemical industry and heavy plant construction. Progressively, over a period of around 270 years, the small winch forge on the banks of the Ruhr river has developed into a modern global player supplying reliable load-moving products around the world.

A specialist with the best reputation worldwide.

J.D. Neuhaus produces hoists and crane systems that use pneumatic or hydraulic technology. Thanks to this globally unique specialisation, we are not only recog-nised experts, but also the world market leader in this field. The unbeatable ad-vantage of this technology compared with electrically driven hoists is its standard application in explosion-hazardous areas. Add to this the sensitive control, numerous fur-ther drive-related advantages and the patented vane motor, which already enjoys a leg-endary reputation thanks to its durability and high load

resistance. And this quality is no coincidence. It is the result of state-of-the-art precision production with the highest-grade materials.

A product range with carrying capacities up to 100 tonnes and above.

The JDN production range includes a total of 14 prod-uct lines, which are precisely adapted to the relevant areas of application and the requirements in terms of carrying capacity. Moreover, we consistently set new standards with customised solutions for exceptional applications. For example with a hydraulic semi -portal crane with a carrying capacity of 80 tonnes, which is in use on a drilling platform. It has a span of 7.5 m, is approx. 11.5 m tall and weighs 32 tonnes. The crane is equipped with two JDN EH 40-H hydraulic monorail hoists and an additional PROFI 6 TI-H as a service hoist.

Preserving history, mastering the future.

Today, seven generations after its foundation, J.D. Neuhaus still remains in family ownership. The hoist museum at our Witten location demonstrates that history is a living part of our corporate culture. Since

the mid-nineties, we have been a member of the Les Hnokiens, an association of companies that have been in business for at least 200 years, are still family-owned and managed by the descendants of the original founder. In the case of J.D. Neuhaus,

this person is Wilfried Neuhaus-Gallad. Under his management, the course of the family-owned business was adapted to the changed conditions predominant in global markets.

J.D. Neuhaus has been keeping things moving for around 270 years.

When Johann Diederich Neuhaus built his first wooden shaft winch in 1745, he presumably had no idea how decisive it would later become for the effort-less movement of heavy loads. This masterpiece, how-ever, did allow him to be registered as a fabricator in the Masters roll of Sprockhoevel manufactories. The foundations had been laid for the J.D. Neuhaus

company. We initially produced winch-es for the locks and the many horse-drawn barges on the Ruhr river. Later, the winches were used for lifting railway carriages onto the tracks and for loading goods. Use in coal mines in the German Ruhr area became increasingly signifi-cant and in around 1880, our winches were already capable of moving loads

of up to 7,500 kg. As the qual-ity of the available materials improved, our products became increasingly compact and high-performance. A historic innova-tion was made by us in 1952, with the construction of a hoist with a compressed-air driven vane motor. For our principal customers, who were from the underground mining industry, this represented a decisive advance. With the new air hoists from J.D. Neuhaus it was possible to work signi- ficantly more effectively, eco-nomically and safely. This marked the start of our very own economic miracle.

MOvING lOaDS: a FaMIly TRaDITION SINcE 1745.

wE NOw havE cuSTOMERS IN 70 INDuSTRIES IN 90 cOuNTRIES, EvEN IN ThE aRcTIc.

Arctic could be free of pack ice as early as summer 2030. As well as resulting in significant changes in wind and oceanic circulation, the ice will thereby also yield up hitherto hidden resources: 90 billion barrels of oil, 47 billion cubic metres of gas and 44 billion barrels of liquid gas representing 22 percent of the world total in undiscovered, technically retrievable oil and gas resources. Also filled with a wealth of dia-monds, gold, tin, manganese, nickel, lead and plati-num, the Arctic is a gigantic natural treasure trove. This explains the enormous interest of the five Arctic states, Russia, Canada, Denmark, Norway and the USA, in staking their territorial legal claim to the area. However, to date, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea has administered the Arctic region.

From Witten to the world hoists for use at low-temperatures from J.D. Neuhaus according to the Arctic model.

J.D. Neuhaus in Witten has been intensively involved in the movement of loads for over 265 years and we continue to set standards, even under extreme conditions. Our hoists are designed for a temperature range of -20 degrees Celsius to +70 degrees Celsius as standard. For special applications at extremely low temperatures of down to -45 degrees Celsius, we have developed hydraulic monorail hoists, first testing them under simulated Arctic conditions in a refrigeration unit. These are now successfully used in offshore tech-nology in Siberia.

was then no longer crushed, but rather pushed up-wards by the ice. Using this vessel, named the Fram, to float with the drift ice, Nansen travelled the frozen northern polar seas for three years until 1893. This enabled him to prove that there really was an east-west flow in the ice drift. However, he missed the North Pole itself by only a short distance.

Breaking through the ice with 75,000 HP.

Today, people and machines face the polar seas with a whole fleet of atomic ice breakers that regularly pilot container ships on the north-east passage to the north of Russia and through the hardest sea passage in the world to navigate. These days the challenge to naviga-tors is not to find the shortest passage through the ice, but rather the safest.

A region of inestimable mineral wealth.

However, the ice is getting thinner in ecological terms the Arctic is one of the most sensitive zones in the world: The pack ice has already receded by

18 % since the 1980s. The north-west passage opened for the first

time in 2007. Further estimates indicate

that the

Revolutionary pioneers the icy challenge of the Arctic

The midnight sun, the northern lights, the sea and ice that seems to go on forever for centuries researchers and explorers have been fascinated by the ocean covered by drift ice and the area between the northern tree line and

the North Pole. The first expeditions into the Arctic began at the end of the 15th century, when English and Dutch seafarers set off in search of a northern sea passage to the Far East. Many of them would pay for their daring with their lives, until all that was left to discover was the North Pole, which was finally reached in the late 19th century. Until then, no one had succeeded in penetrating the thick strata of ice of the Arctic Ocean because ships were not reinforced to withstand the pack ice and were simply crushed.

Floating with the ice.

At the beginning of 1890, Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen developed a revo-lutionary construction: he assumed that the ice in the Arctic Ocean flows from east to west and had a small, robust ship built with special planking on its exterior: It

wElcOME TO TEMpERaTuRES OF 45 DEGREES cElSIuS BElOw zERO.

To enable these hydraulic hoists to be used under extreme conditions, we have fitted them with a device that pre-heats the hoist drive to a tem-perature of -25 de grees Celsius before being operat-ed. Furthermore, a special oil ensures efficient use in a temperature range from -45 to +40 degrees Celsius.

wE FIND SOluTIONS FOR EvERyThING. EvEN uNDER waTER.

hood after having conquered Panama in 1671. Sir Henry Morgan was famed and feared for his ruthless plundering of the immeasurable riches of the Spanish colonies, which he invariably brought to Port Royal on Jamaica. Treasure hunter Klaus Keppler tracked down the lost pirate ship, the Merchant Jamaica, using old documents. He located the more than three-hundred year old wreck in the waters off the coast of Haiti in 2001. The ship has not yet been successfully salvaged.

From Witten to the worlds oceans JDN Subsea Hoists.

Who knows? Perhaps the salvage work on the Merchant Jamaica will succeed with the aid of Subsea Hoists from Witten! With these newly-devel-oped hoists J.D. Neuhaus enhances the possibilities of weightless movement under water: the JDN PROFI Subsea series with air

or hydraulic drives even enable horizontal operation and oblique pulling at sub-aquatic depths of up to 70 metres. The JDN PROFI 25 TI Subsea Hoist has already success-fully proven its exceptional performance in practice: the 45-tonnes rudder blade of a cargo ship sailing from China to Brazil had to be repaired off the coast of Venezuela: the defective rudder blade was success-fully removed and repaired with the aid of three JDN Subsea Hoists at a berth in the Bay of Caracas.

freely in the water for the first time. The precursor to the modern diving regulator, the Aerophire was invented by two Frenchmen, Benoit Rouquaroi and Auguste Denayrouze, in 1865. Together with the engineer Emile Gagnan, the legendary diving pioneer Jacques Cousteau developed a two-stage regulator, which controls the differing pressure conditions in the cylinder and the ambient environment. His first test with an oxygen rebreather almost ended in fatal oxy-gen poisoning. Today, compressed air is used almost exclusively by amateur divers, while professionals use gas mixtures such as Nitrox, Trimix and Heliox for greater depths.

Underwater treasure chests the wrecks of the Caribbean

Hundreds of wrecks, which were sunk by reefs or storms, pirates or cannon fire, lie on the Caribbean sea bed. Most of the treasures on board have long been retrieved, but the ships themselves have gained inestimable value as they are teeming with life today. Thus, it is perhaps biodiversity that is the most pre-cious treasure in the underwater world of the Carib-bean. With the development of improved diving equip-ment, it has increasingly become possible to reach ever greater depths: using mixed gas systems filled with Nitrox, Trimix or Heliox, increasing numbers of experienced divers are undertaking demanding dives, exploring wrecks which, in addition to providing a new habitat, harbour wild tales of piracy.

Legendary the Merchant Jamaica of Sir Henry Morgan

On 25 February 1676, the notorious buccaneer Sir Henry Morgan made a fateful navigation error on his

three-master, the Merchant Jamaica: his ship ran aground on the reefs of the old

treasure island Lile Vache and sank just off the coast of Haiti.

Previously, this simple Welsh-man had succeeded in be-coming Vice Governor of the Island of Jamaica and received a knight-

a lEap TO ThE uNDERwaTER wORlD OF ThE caRIBBEaN.

or hydraulic drives even enable horizontal operation and oblique pulling at sub-aquatic depths of up to 70 metres. The JDN PROFI 25 TI Subsea Hoist has already success-

Anything but weightless the beginnings of diving.

Gliding weightlessly through the water diving fasci-nates millions of people. Yet the beginnings were any-thing but weightless: thousands of years ago, the first divers already ventured into the depths of the ocean. In order to do so, they had to be expert at holding their breath, as no external aids were available. Their incentive was earning a living: good money could be earned with pearls, sponges or the salvage of lost freight. Trained pearl or sponge divers were able to reach depths of up to 70 metres merely by holding their breath. In 1715, the first diving barrel was in-vented. However, the body was subjected to the water pressure, so that only short dives were possible. In the 18th century, the scientist Edmund Halley had the idea of delivering air to a diving bell via a hose. The first professional diving gear with a helmet was used off the South Coast of England in 1839. With the first autonomous diving equipment, it was possible to move

TO wORk uNDER EXTREME cONDITIONS, yOu NEED EXTREMEly RElIaBlE paRTNERS.

How we think, how we act according to ISO 14001.

Whether in terms of energy or raw materials, resources are becoming more scarce. Ecological aspects are be-coming increasingly impor-tant. Sustained action is expected and this has come to extend well beyond public

opinion. Consequently, environmentally-conscious corporate governance is now a fundamental compo-nent of corporate policy at J.D. Neuhaus.

Starting with the development and production of our products, we place great value on ecological com-patibility. Long service life and recyclability already make an important contribution towards relieving the environmental burden. Furthermore, our production has been adapted to minimise energy consumption, emissions, sewage and waste; it also uses environmen-tally-compatible production processes and materials. Resources are used sparingly and waste is recycled wherever possible.

One of the most important commitments of the J.D. Neuhaus management is to promote awareness, openness and a sense of responsibility among employ-ees in order to establish conditions favourable to the implementation of our environmental guidelines. We have also made environmental protection a permanent feature of our employee training courses.

How Made in Germany can be improved even further.

Kaizen is a Japanese philosophy of life and work, which follows the guiding principle of continuous improvement. According to this principle, erratic improvements are not the route to success, but progressive, step-by-step perfection. This is precise-

ly what we work on day-by-day and over a period of years. We optimise our workplaces and processes, invest in employee training,

as well as strictly controlling our quality. Our quality management system

covers all our processes, from planning and design through to produc-tion and customer service. It is also certified by the TV Rheinland according to ISO 9001.

opinion. Consequently, environmentally-conscious

wE havE SET ThE GlOBal qualITy STaNDaRD.

Proximity to the customer as a recipe for success.

Naturally, constant striving for improvement not only drives our efforts in production and management: when-ever we refer to quality, we also mean in particular the quality of our collaboration with our customers. This is true in all the markets and sectors we work in. This is how we produce the hoists and crane systems that enjoy such an excellent reputation worldwide. This reputation has been gained as the result of reliable, long-term perform-ance under both normal and extremely harsh conditions, whether from a JDN mini from standard series production or a complex crane system built as a customised complete solution.

Strong, close customer relations are mainly achieved through direct person-to-person dialogue, whether in consultation, during on-site service, or when training customer employees. Furthermore, we also place a great deal of importance on communication and interaction on the Internet and have established various online services. For example, our eNewsletter uses e-mail technology to keep our customers up to date with the latest develop-ments, while our online community offers a platform for exchanging knowledge and for expert reports, and our home page contains extensive technical product infor-mation and services. And if you like J.D. Neuhaus on the companys Facebook page, then you can also quickly receive the latest information via this medium.

Openness for new developments and thoroughness in planning: this is how J.D. Neuhaus has succeeded in making its 270-year history a real success story. This is also how we intend to remain successful in the future.

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