From the garage workshop to the HA-CO Group

History of HA-CO Group

Company history: How many individual companies became one group

Essentially, the HA-CO Group consists of four companies, which are located in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. These are part of the Haudenschild Holding and now act together. Many steps were necessary to finally get to this point. The history of this process is shown here with the most important milestones.

However, the development of the HA-CO Group is far from complete. In fact, we are striving for more: product range extensions, opening up new customer segments, optimizing existing processes and even more intensive cooperation within the group. We know that nothing is as constant as change and look forward to a challenging future.

2022
  • November: Joint appearance of the individual companies and the umbrella of the HA-CO Group
2021
  • January: HA-CO Traun adds press-in machines and processing tools to its product range
2019
  • Full year: HA-CO Carbon manufactures three carbon entrance portals for EXPO 2020 in Dubai
  • January: Haudenschild AG is renamed HA-CO Motion AG
  • April: HA-CO Traun is certified according to DIN EN ISO 9001
2018
  • January: CGB is renamed HA-CO Carbon GmbH, Wallerstein, Germany
  • April: HA-CO Kleinwallstadt becomes ISO9001 certified
2017
  • January: Renaming from Hafner Maschinenbau to HA-CO GmbH, Kleinwallstadt
  • March: MARKtech GmbH is renamed HA-CO GmbH, Traun
  • August: Takeover of CGB from Haudenschild Holding
2016
  • August: MARKtech takes over clutch and lubrication technology
2015
  • December: Haudenschild Holding takes over MARKtech GmbH from Mark Metallwarenfabrik GmbH
2013
  • November: Acquisition of Hafner Maschinenbau GmbH from Haudenschild Holding
2012
  • March: Foundation of MARKtech GmbH
2011
  • January: The CFRP artwork Mae West in Munich is completed by CGB GmbH
2008
  • January: Foundation of CGB Carbon Großbauteile GmbH in Wallerstein, Germany
2007
  • March: Haudenschild AG moves from Jona to Altendorf
2003
  • March: Foundation of Haudenschild Holding
2002
  • January: Werner Haudenschild takes over Haudenschild AG from Willy Haudenschild.
1998
  • January: Foundation of HW-TEC GmbH based in Switzerland
1988
  • April: Start of sales of Winkel products in Switzerland
  • April: Foundation of Hafner Maschinenbau GmbH
1986
  • June: Walter Hafner receives the "Franz Josef Strauss" State Prize
1985
  • January: Foundation of Haudenschild AG
1982
  • February: Start of sales of Rollon products by Haudenschild
1980
  • January: Foundation of the sole proprietorship Haudenschild by Willy Haudenschild
  • January: Walter Hafner starts with Hafner Fertigungstechnik as contract manufacturer
1979
  • January: Woerner Tribotechnik AG founded by Willy Haudenschild