Hydrauflex GmbH today

Hydrauflex GmbH currently employs a staff of 200 people who manufacture customer-specific products on modern CNC machine tools in a 10,000 m2 hall.

Flexibility, reliability and a high quality standard are the bases for all of our customer relationships. We develop innovative products for and with our customers.

Tailor-made products are also subject to a high degree of standardisation with the use of the Hydrauflex construction kit. The resulting high level of availability of individual components assures delivery flexibility and a very good price-performance ratio.

Hydrauflex GmbH is a recognised system supplier and partner of leading European companies in the construction and agricultural machinery industry, industrial truck industry, machine construction and municipal services equipment sectors.

Company history

Unternehmensgeschichte

Inauguration of plant 2

System supplier for construction machinery, industrial trucks, agricultural machinery, municipal services equipment and machine tools Company size: 180 employees Inauguration of the new company building “Am Hohen Berg 1” Plant 2

Inauguration of plant 1

System supplier for construction machinery, industrial trucks, agricultural machinery, municipal services equipment and machine tools Company size: 95 employees Relocation to the new company building “Am Hohen Berg 2” Plant 1

Company renamed to “Hydrauflex GmbH Schlauchleitungen”

Products: Hose lines, pipelines, connecting elements and distribution systems Company size: 31 employees Relocation to Schenkendorfstraße 14

Company renamed to “Hydrauflex GmbH”

Products: Hose lines for all industrial sectors Company size: 320 employees in three locations Headquarters in Plauen 2nd plant in Lauter bei Aue 3rd plant in Stelzen bei Plauen

Company renamed to “VEB Hydrauflex Plauen”

Products: Ready-to-install hose lines for industry and motor vehicles Company size: 280 employees

Expansion of the production area

Wielandstraße 31 with an extension Company size: 120 employees

Relocation to Plauen

Relocation to Plauen as “Techno-Chemie, Kessler & Co. KG” with public ownership. Products: Ready-to-install hose lines for industry and motor vehicles Company size: 60 employees

Relocation of production to Barthmühle/Vogtland

Due to the effects of the war, production was relocated to Nidda bei Frankfurt am Main and Barthmühle/Vogtland bei Plauen Products: Ready-to-install hose lines for industry and motor vehicles Company size: 14 employees at the Barthmühle location

Company founded as “Techno Chemie Kessler & Co. KG” in Berlin