In 1962 around 1000 employees worked for the company in the Vechta, Ganderkesee, Löningen an Blackwood (Scotland) plants.

The company ran into financial difficulties in 1999 and was sold to EDER Handel und Beteiligungen GmbH, which it resold in 2001 to the US construction equipment manufacturer Terex from Westport and renamed Atlas Terex GmbH.

Following losses in this business unit, it was sold to investor Filip S. Filipov for one million euro in March 2010.

The investor named the newly founded company Atlas Maschinen GmbH .

The company sells mini and midi excavators of the Chinese manufacturer Sunward in the Atlas colors.