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Also known as Herrenknecht AG, HERRENKNECHT AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

Herrenknecht AG is a German company that manufactures tunnel boring machines (TBMs). Headquartered in Allmannsweier, Schwanau, Baden-Württemberg, it is the worldwide market leader for heavy TBMs.

Key facts

Company.name
Herrenknecht AG
Company.logo
Herrenknecht logo.svg
Company.logo_size
200px
Company.type
Private (AG)
Company.founder
Martin Herrenknecht
Company.foundation
1975
Company.location
Schwanau, Germany
Company.key_people
Martin Herrenknecht, President & CEO
Company.num_employees
5,426 (2018)
Company.industry
Heavy equipmentGeotechnical engineering
Company.products
Tunnel boring machines
Company.revenue
1,288 € million (2024)
Company.divisions
Traffic TunnellingUtility TunnellingVertical Drilling Rigs
Company.subsid
Herrenknecht Vertical GmbH, Maschinen – Und Stahlbau Dresden, Herrenknecht Formwork Technology GmbH
Company.net_income
39.3 € million (2013)

via Wikipedia infobox

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Type
Company
Founded
1975
Location
Schwanau, Germany
Status
Active

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Official website

Herrenknecht – Pioneering Underground Together

Premium technology and services for mechanized tunnelling: immerse yourself in the fascinating world of tunnelling.

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Encyclopedic overview

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Herrenknecht AG is a German company that manufactures tunnel boring machines (TBMs). Headquartered in Allmannsweier, Schwanau, Baden-Württemberg, it is the worldwide market leader for heavy TBMs.

Established by Martin Herrenknecht in 1975, the company soon grew. Its first overseas subsidiary, Herrenknecht International Ltd, was created in 1984; a further 79 subsidiaries would be set up or purchased over the next 30 years to provide global coverage. Its products have often pushed technological boundaries; a Herrenknecht-built TBM in the late 1990s was the largest in the world at that time, while the world's longest and deepest railway tunnel (the Gotthard Base Tunnel) was bored using the company's apparatus. By 2015, the company had around 5,000 employees.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Herrenknecht” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.