Atlas Weyhausen GmbH in Wildeshausen was founded in 1971 by Dr. Friedrich Weyhausen and today employs around 220 people. Since then, compact wheel loaders, compactors and tandem rollers have been designed in-house on the approximately 60,000 m² industrial site and have been marketed under the Weycor product name since 2015. The distinctive Atlas wheel loaders are used as reliable partners in the construction industry, agriculture, gardening and landscaping, material handling and recycling. The vibratory compactors and tandem rollers cover a wide range of requirements in the fields of road construction, industrial construction and dam and dyke construction.
In 1993, Atlas Weyhausen GmbH in Hungary took over the wholly-owned subsidiary Kapos, a production facility for steel construction components, which is also the main supplier of steel components for wheel loaders and rollers in Wildeshausen. The company's production capacity is currently around 1,800 wheel loaders and 300 rollers per year in single-shift operation. Weycor products are distributed through an extensive dealer network in Europe and OEM agreements ensure a market presence for the products, e.g. in the USA.
To keep up with the times, Atlas Weyhausen GmbH is expanding the site in Wildeshausen on the corner of Südring/Düngstruper Straße by almost 9,000 square meters. An innovation center will be built here by the end of 2022 for around three million euros, which will serve to develop new construction machinery and expand pioneering technologies. In this way, the company aims to meet changing market demands, remain competitive and create up to 15 new jobs in the development department.
Atlas Weyhausen GmbH intends to achieve its goal of further profitable and technological growth in the coming years by developing new products and markets, optimizing production processes and consistently expanding its technological base. Both materials management and production processes are to be further optimized in the coming years.
In addition to the prototype construction area, the center will house workshop facilities, an assembly hall in the main area, a test hall with built-in sound insulation, an outdoor test area of around 1,800 square meters and a photovoltaic system on the roof. Together with the administration wing on the 2nd floor, the building will cover around 1,400 square meters.
The field of prototype construction, which has so far been entrusted with the construction of sample assemblies and prototypes, will become even more important in the future, as it is crucial for the practical development and implementation of new technologies in compaction technology. The focus is therefore on developing alternative drive systems for construction machinery in order to drive forward the transition to electric drives. The technical implementation of electric drives in construction machinery requires a new working environment that corresponds to the current state of the art.
The possible transfer of some research and development areas to the new innovation center will free up space on the existing site for further important investments.