The company

ABOUT US

In railway infrastructure, we cover a wide portfolio of products and services in construction site supply and disposal. Flexibility and individual customer solutions are not only slogans for this family company but the backbone of everything we do.

HISTORY

1929

Otto Fehlings (1896-1975) sets up the timber merchant business Fehlings in Haltern (Westphalia).

1935

The Company moves to Marl-Sinsen and expands the firm by a sawmill. The production of railway sleepers starts.

1940

The company expands further and starts production in a salt impregnation facility.

1947

The salt impregnation facility changes to coal tar oil as impregnating agent.

1964

The company is taken over by Otto Herrmann Fehlings.

1987

The impregnation facility in Marl-Sinsen closes down. The company is now active as a stocking firm.

1996

Dipl.-Kfm Otto Johannes Fehlings joins the company.

1997

The firm Holz-Fehlings Entsorgung GmbH is set up.

1998

The firms Holz-Fehlings Otto Fehlings Gleistechnik and Holzgroßhandlung merges with the Holz-Fehlings Entsorgung GmbH to the firm Holz-Fehlings Gleistechnik und Entsorgung GmbH.

2005

The distribution company Fehlings Weiß Gleistechnik und Entsorgung GmbH, Berlin is formed and a participating interest acquired in the new firm.

2008

Partnership with and acquisition of a participating interest in the Künstler Bahntechnik GmbH, Holzwickede

2010

The distribution company Fehlings Narosch Gleistechnik und Entsorgung GmbH, Munich is set up and a participating interest acquired in it

2015

The holding of Künstler Bahntechnik GmbH increases to 100%.

2019

The Künstler Bahntechnik GmbH relocates its headquarters from Holzwickede to Hamm.

2022

Foundation of Fehlings Gruppe AG in Baar, Switzerland