Over 140 years' experience

The development of the company began, as the industrial development in this area generally did, with the use of the water power along the Heilenbecke. In 1873, Wilhelm Schumacher founded a hammer mill there. Using hydropower, pans, cake pans and cutlasses were produced there and exported worldwide.

Closely linked to the development of businesses in the Heilenbecke is the story of the river dam of the same name. In 1884, the owners of the hammer mills decided to build a dam so that hydropower and production could be evenly utilised. 

With August Schumacher, the founder's son, the second generation extended the existing hammer mill as well as the production program. After the First World War, however, August Schumacher returned from the war ill, and died in 1921.

Expansion through cooperation

Since there are few opportunities to expand production capacity in the Heilenbeckertal, the Schumacher trading company was founded in 1990, which through partnerships and investments at home and abroad creates the potential to expand the range of products so that all market opportunities can be exploited.

The entire process and project responsibility is controlled out of Ennepetal in order to offer customers an ever wider range of products at competitive prices and at the same time to secure jobs in Ennepetal in the long term. Anna Luisa Schumacher (who has worked for the company since 2009) and Constantin Beckenbauer (since 2013) are the family’s fifth generation in the company. 

It is our goal to continue to grow with the requirements of customers and not to see casting-technical problems as a burden but as a challenge in the field of technical expertise and innovation. This should be the motto of the company in the future. Our customers include leading pump manufacturers, renowned commercial vehicle manufacturers as well as well-known machine builders, etc.