Almost a century, several generations and a common thread: wood.
What began in 1929 as a timber yard in Haltern is now a corporate group that supplies track construction sites across Europe. The path there led via a sawmill, a pressure impregnation plant and a whole series of decisions that proved to be the right ones.
18 stations from 1929 to 2024
Establishment of Künstler & Co. in Dortmund-Holzwickede.
Foundation of ZICO as a spring washer manufacturer.
Otto Fehlings (1896 to 1975) founded the Fehlings timber yard in Haltern in Westphalia.
The company moves to Marl-Sinsen and expands to include a sawmill. The production of railway sleepers begins.
Expansion of the company to include a salt impregnation plant.
Conversion of the salt impregnation plant to coal tar creosote.
Sawmill industry master Otto Herrmann Fehlings takes over the company.
Künstler & Co. is becoming Künstler Bergbautechnik GmbH.
The impregnation plant in Marl-Sinsen is being closed. The company is taking on the role of a stocking enterprise.
Otto Johannes Fehlings, graduate in business administration, joins the company.
Establishment of the Holz-Fehlings Entsorgung GmbH.
Merger of the companies Holz-Fehlings Otto Fehlings Gleistechnik und Holzgroßhandlung with Holz-Fehlings Entsorgung GmbH to form Holz-Fehlings Gleistechnik und Entsorgung GmbH.
Change of company name to Künstler Bahntechnik GmbH.
Establishment of and investment in the sales company Fehlings Weiß Gleistechnik und Entsorgung GmbH in Berlin.
Partnership and shareholding in Künstler Bahntechnik GmbH in Holzwickede. The company was founded in 1907 as Künstler & Co. in Dortmund-Holzwickede, traded from 1984 as Künstler Bergbautechnik GmbH and since 2001 as Künstler Bahntechnik GmbH.
Establishment of and investment in the sales company Gleistechnik und Entsorgung GmbH in Munich Fehlings Narosch.
The Künstler Bahntechnik GmbH is establishing its branch Chemnitz.
The Künstler Bahntechnik GmbH is taking over the turnout plant Röblingen.
Participation in Künstler Bahntechnik GmbH is being expanded to 100 per cent.
The Künstler Bahntechnik GmbH is relocating its registered office from Holzwickede to Hamm.
Establishment of the Fehlings Gruppe AG in Baar, Switzerland.
Merger of Zico Zimmermann & Co. GmbH with Holz-Fehlings Gleistechnik und Entsorgung GmbH.
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