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50 YEARS English edition Leinfelden + Plochingen Germany Laindon Essex England Detroit Michigan USA Shanghai + Dalian China JW FROEHLICH Technological leadership and longstanding experience For 50 years we have been specialised in developing, designing and building test stands, complex testing and assembly systems, as well as a family of leak test panels, for the automotive industry. As an owner-managed, global player, we have plants in Germany, the UK and the USA, and offices in Shanghai and Dalian for sales and support. The following pages provide an overview of our company locations, history, products and customers. Locations Leinfelden-Echterdingen Headquarters 22A 24 20 22 18 18 Leak Test Center The company was founded in 1965 as JW Froehlich TESTTECHNIK in 20 Froehlich Foundation Stuttgart, and moved into its own premises in Leinfelden, Kohlhammer- 22 Administration, Sales straße in 1970. Over the years, the offices and factory have been 22 A Engineering Center continuously extended and new buildings added. Today, the building 24 Factory, Procurement complex consists of an administrative building with the factory, the Engineering Center, the Leak Test Center and the Foundation building, which was completed in 2009. 4 Locations Plochingen Germany The Otto Müller Schnellradiale company was equipment and search gas leak test systems for purchased in 1974 and rebranded as JW FROEHLICH hermetic compressors and heat exchangers began. Maschinenfabrik GmbH Plochingen. The range In 1989, the factory was substantially extended, of radial drilling machines was expanded and a design office was integrated and the company a thread rolling machine added. In 1977, the started to design and manufacture leak test stands MOD3 Automation system was developed and and assembly machines for the automotive manufactured for the large hot test systems ordered industry. In 2002, the neighbouring premises by Daimler and Opel. In 1979, the existing building Drommel were purchased, the buildings there torn was replaced by a larger office building. In 987,1 down and the plot integrated. development and building of vacuum drying Stetten Germany The premises, consisting of an assembly hall with a 10 t crane, storage area and offices, had been rented since 2012 and were purchased at the beginning of 2015. They are currently being used as an additional assembly space for the Leinfelden site. 5 Locations Laindon UK JW FROEHLICH UK Ltd. was founded in 1975, In 1991, JW FROEHLICH acquired Skinner’s shares. with 25% of the shares held by Managing Director The company moved into its own plant in Laindon Colin Skinner. In the rented building in Bowlers in 1993. The plant and offices were extended in Croft, Basildon, assembly of the leak test equipment 2004. JW FROEHLICH UK Ltd. designs, builds and designed in Leinfelden began and a design sells the same products as JW FROEHLICH GmbH. department was set up. In 1978, the company Its key customers are Ford worldwide and JLR. moved into larger premises on Repton Close. Sterling Heights USA JW FROEHLICH Inc. was founded in 2007 in Leinfelden. JW FROEHLICH Inc. is set up to sell, ser- Sterling Heights with offices at 91 Mile Road. In vice and calibrate leak test panels in the USA, Me- 2013, JW FROEHLICH Inc. moved into a larger xico and Canada and to offer service and rebuilding neighbouring building with offices, a leak test support for the nearly 100 assembly and leak test panel assembly and service center and space for machines that JW FROEHLICH UK has in operation rebuilding JW FROEHLICH UK machines. Leak test in Ford engine plants in North and South America. panels are assembled from kits shipped from LTG 6 Locations Shanghai + Dalian China In 1993, the joint venture JW FROEHLICH-DALIAN local service and support. Offices with a leak test with Dalian Modular Machine Tool Research panel service center are located in Shanghai. A Institute was established. JW FROEHLICH Shanghai further leak test panel sales and support is located Co. Ltd. China was founded in 2008 with the in Dalian. China has become the most important objective of selling JW FROEHLICH products to export market for JW FROEHLICH cold test stands, the Chinese automotive industry and offering seat & guide machines and leak test panels. 7 Company history 50 YEARS 1965 Company founded in Stuttgart as Froehlich TESTTECHNIK Leak test panel, micro-leck-test 1966 Orders for leak test equipment placed by Daimler-Benz Berlin, Cross Europa-Werk, Opel Rüsselsheim, Westinghouse Hannover, VW Kassel and KHD Ulm 4 special combined milling and drilling machines 1965 Leak test panel, micro-leck-test 1966 Daimler Benz Leak test stand for water pumps 1967 Volkswagen AG Kassel and GMStrasbourg Leak test equipment for automatic transmission cases 1967 DYNAMIC ZERO leak test panel 1967 Entered into the commercial register Relocated to Ganss company Ernst-Mey-Straße in Leinfelden DYNAMIC ZERO leak test panel Introduction of the JW FROEHLICH hydraulic tubing support system VW Kassel and GM Strasbourg Leak test equipment for automatic transmission cases Ford Cologne Leak test stands for exhaust manifolds and manual transmissions and pneumatic valve play adjusting units 10 Company history 1968 First JW FROEHLICH assembly facility 1968 Nissan Jidosha Transfer leak test machines for 4-cylinder heads and cylinder blocks 1968 First assembly facility at Frühlingshalde 11, previously a carpenter’s workshop by Rauchenecker Nissan Diesel Flow test stand for truck crankshafts Nissan Jidosha Transfer leak test machines for 4-cylinder heads and cylinder blocks Bosch Leak test stand for fuel pump housing Fiat Leak test stands for camshaft housing KACO Leak test stand for water pump seals 1970 Press conference in the new plant – world’s first computer-controlled EOL test stands for Daimler NAG1 automatic transmissions 1969 Daimler-Benz Order for the world’s first 2 computer-controlled EOL test stands for NAG1 automatic transmissions Ford Cologne Transfer leak test machines for cylinder heads and cylinder blocks for OHC engines Leak test stands for intake manifolds and water pumps, function test stand for oil pumps, volumeter, pneumatic valve play adjusting units, impregnation equipment and connecting rod sorting machine Audi Leak test equipment for M80 petrol engines 11 Company history 1970 Office building 1970 Moved into own plant in Leinfelden, Kohlhammerstraße VW Salzgitter Leak test equipment for M80 and K70 petrol engines Ford Dagenham Leak test equipment for Dorset engines Ford Belfast Leak test equipment for carburettor housings 1971 Factory space doubled Cummins Leak test equipment for cylinder blocks Alfasud Transfer leak test machines for cylinder blocks Peugeot Leak test equipment for cylinder liners Renault Leak test equipment for automatic transmission cases Saab Transfer assembly and leak test machines for cylinder heads and cylinder blocks Opel First nonsynchronous assembly and leak test machine for 400 water pumps/hour 1971 Opel First nonsynchronous assembly and leak test machine for 400 water pumps/hour 12 Company history 1972 Ford Cologne Transfer combustion chamber volume measuring machine 1972 Ford Bordeaux Computer-controlled EOL test stand for C3 automatic transmissions 1972 Ford Bordeaux 11 computer-controlled EOL test stands for C3 automatic transmissions Ford Cologne Transfer combustion chamber volume measuring machine Volvo Transfer assembly and leak test machines for cylinder heads, cylinder blocks and water pumps 1973 Office building extended by two floors Crane Holland Rotary leak test machine for 1,000 fittings/hour Opel Rüsselsheim Transfer gauging machine for cylinder blocks 1974 Kamaz Assembly and leak test machine for cylinder heads 1974 Acquisition of F. Jos. Lamb, formerly Otto Müller Schnellradiale, Plochingen; rebranded as JW FROEHLICH Maschinenfabrik GmbH, Plochingen Continuing development of radial drilling machines S23 and S26 New development of thread rolling machine Matsushita Rotary leak test machine for gas valves Kamaz Russia Assembly and leak test machines for cylinder heads (Renault); clutch flywheel transmission housing and assembled transmission (Hüller) 13 Company history 1975 JW FROEHLICH UK Ltd. founded in Basildon JW FROEHLICH with 75% and Skinner with 25% of the shares KK EQUIPAMENTOS Ltda. in Sao Bernardo, Brazil, acquisition of 31% of the shares Electronic leak test panel, series 30 ZF Saarbrücken 2 computer-controlled EOL test stands for HP4 automatic transmissions 1975 Electronic leak test panel, series 30 1976 Perkins Peterborough Experimental cold test stand for 3, 4 and 6-cylinder diesel engines 1976 Perkins Peterborough Experimental cold test stand for 3, 4 and 6-cylinder diesel engines Skoda Leak test stand for intake manifolds Daimler-Benz First hot test stand for V8 petrol engines, 3 hot test systems with 42 test stands for 4 and 5-cylinder petrol and diesel engines 1977 ZF Schwäbisch Gmünd Computer-controlled function test stand for vane pumps 1976 Daimler-Benz First hot test stand for V8 petrol engines 1977 ZF Schwäbisch Gmünd Computer-controlled function test stand for vane pumps 14 Company history 1978 JW FROEHLICH UK: Relocated to Repton Close in Basildon 1979 JW FROEHLICH Leinfelden: Purchased Hess garden center and doubled plant size Shares in KK EQUIPAMENTOS Ltda. increased to 81%; company rebranded as JW FROEHLICH Maquinas e Equipamentos Ltda. Opel Bochum Hot test system with 10 test stands for FAM I petrol engines Ford Geelong, Australia First transfer seat & guide machine with liquid nitrogen 1979 Negotiations