The Dürkopp company looks back on a long and successful history. Founded in 1867 by Nikolas Dürkopp, it developed and built the first conveyor systems as early as 1932.

The Dürkopp Phaeton

A proud product of its time.

To begin with business activities were focused on the clothing industry, where it was a partner to well-known companies in the branch.

Originally systems for linking sewing stations were developed. This was soon extended to include the design and equipping of distribution centres for manufacturers and the retail industry generally. Increasing demands led to the development of automatic high-performance sorting systems for hanging goods at the end of the 1980s, goods such as vendor parts for the automotive industry, clothing, cables and spools.

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Dürkopp’s success in plant engineering and construction, with the special demands on the structure and production facilities of the company that this involved, led to the materials handling sector of Dürkopp Adler AG being hived off to become its own limited company in 1991.

At the beginning of the 1990s a major innovation was realised: the design of the first trolley-less conveyor systems for hanging garments. For the first time we were in a position to accommodate the trend towards handling the smallest of units. With the new design, the goods hang directly in the sorter or conveyor without the need of any intermediate load handling device. The triumphant march of this technology, with all its many advantages, has since proved unstoppable. Today many of the distribution centres produced by Dürkopp Fördertechnik GmbH are designed without trolleys.

Another major step was the extension of the software and IT competence in the middle of the 1990s. It was at this time, that the first customised warehouse management systems were realised and installed. Today Dürkopp Fördertechnik offers total solutions for the handling of data, including radio data transmission.

In the wake of demands from the English market, our service underwent a substantial expansion in 1998. Since then any customer with an a 24 hrs service contract has been able to reach our staff round-the-clock on any day of the year.

In the year 2002 Dürkopp Fördertechnik once again extended its range of services in one very important sector: to accommodate the manifold requirements of our customers for a solution for the high-speed sorting of cartons, we developed the tilt tray sorter.

In the year 2004 our range of products was extended to include the split tray sorter for single item sortation (large letters, flat garments, shipping bags etc.).