J. D. Neuhaus is a company based in Witten,[1] Germany, that manufactures air-powered hoists, winches and cranes.
It was an association of self-employed master smiths who sold the smithy products made by their members at home and abroad and took orders.
Sales of steel goods grew, the railway network was built, as were shipping lines spanning the globe.
J. Diederich Neuhaus (1813-1883) built winches for the locks on the Ruhr, for horse-drawn vehicles, for lifting railway wagons, for aligning rails, loading goods and increasingly for work in the coal mines.
Although the Neuhaus company still did not go beyond the operation of an artisan forge with factory production of winches, Louis expanded the business with great success.
She had to work with assistants and for particularly difficult jobs she called in master craftsman Wilhelm Müller, who did in the evening hours what the others could not manage during the day.
In 1925, Max Neuhaus received an order for 300 track hoisting winches from the Reichsbahn Central Office in Berlin.
This was a most welcome innovation for underground mining, because the new J. Diederich Neuhaus air hoists made it possible to work much more effectively, economically and safely.
Wilfried Neuhaus-Galladé installed a worldwide distribution system and founded subsidiaries in the USA, France, England, Singapore and China.