The story
Founded by Benno Kaltenegger in 1957.1
BOMAG was founded in 1957 by Karl Heinz Schwamborn in Boppard. In the same year he developed a new design for compaction technology for a model of a double vibratory roller with all-drum drive.
In 1962 the first 7t double vibratory roller in the world was launched. The first branch office abroad opened in 1961 in Austria, followed by branches in China, the USA, France, Italy, Great Britain, Canada, Japan and Hungary up to 2002.
In 1970 Schwamborn sold the company to the American company Koehring.
The original site in Boppard was no longer adequate, so the company moved in 1969 to the Hellerwald industrial estate in the district of Buchholz (Boppard) where it remains today. A research centre was added seven years later. In 1982 production and steel engineering operations on the 7,000 m² site were expanded. Four years later a further 10,000 m² were developed for assembly, testing and painting heavy machinery. A powder coating plant was installed in 1997, and the site expanded again by 9,000 m² in 1998.
Koehring sold its interest in BOMAG in 2001 to the American company SPX Corporation, which in turn sold the company again in 2005 to the French corporate group Fayat.
In 2011, BOMAG acquired 90,000 square meters of the Hellerwald II industrial park to further expand the production area located in Hellerwald I. The company invested €21.5 million—the largest single investment in BOMAG's history—in the construction of a state-of-the-art drum factory, which was built within 12 months and put into operation at the end of June 2013.
From Wikipedia’s article on BOMAG, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5