43 Facts About Voith

In 1825, Johann Matthaus Voith took over his father's locksmith's workshop in Heidenheim with five employees, mainly carrying out repairs to water wheels and paper mills.

Voith developed the first wood grinders based on the patented design of Friedrich Gottlob Keller.

In 1863, Friedrich Voith bought a share in a bark mill, where he set up the first research center for the production of wood pulp.

In 1869, Voith was granted the first patent for a wood grinder with a toothed loading rack.

Voith added another business segment to its existing product lines of paper machines and stock preparation technology – with the construction of a 100-HP Henschel-Jonval turbine.

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In 1881, Voith fabricated the first complete Voith paper machine PM1, with a wire width of 2.

Voith regarded contact with the research and development community as essential.

In 1903, Voith received an order to build the largest turbines in the world: 12 Francis turbines each with 12,000 HP for power plants at Niagara Falls in the USA and Canada.

For example, in 1907, Voith built a research and testing center for turbines in Hermaringen and another in Brunnenmuhle in 1908.

Increase in the number of Voith employees is a major reason why by 1908 there were already 800 trade union members in Heidenheim.

That the conflicts at Voith began to accumulate before World War I is held to have been due to the management practices of the company rather than – as often claimed – because of the metalworkers' union official Sebastian Geiger.

That same year, Voith built at its plant in St Polten in Austria what was at the time the fastest and widest paper machine for newsprint paper.

Friedrich Voith died in 1913 and just a month later, his third son Hanns was included in the management team.

In 1929, Voith developed the first hydrodynamic couplings based on the Fottinger principle.

Voith made a name for itself with hydrodynamic transmissions and couplings for industrial applications.

In 1956, Voith opened a branch factory in Crailsheim, where it produced fluid couplings.

Voith was the first manager of the company not a member of the Voith family.

At the 1958 World Fair in Brussels, Voith was awarded a gold medal for the first turbo gear units for diesel-hydraulic locomotive drive systems built for Deutsche Bundesbahn.

Voith worked with the Palm and Haindl paper mills to develop a new flotation deinking process to produce paper stock from recovered paper.

In 1961, Voith supplied what was at that time Europe's largest newsprint paper machine with a wire width of 8.

In 1966, Voith delivered the widest newsprint paper machine in the world to a customer in Sweden.

In 1974, Voith established a company in Appleton, Wisconsin and in the same year acquired a majority stake in Morden Machines in Portland, Oregon.

Voith entered the paper machine clothing market with its acquisition of Appleton Mills in 1983.

At Voith, the focus shifted to expansion in the Far East, especially in China.

In 1994, Voith supplied turbines for the world's largest pumped storage hydropower plant Guangzhou II.

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Two years later, Voith supplied the largest fine paper machine in the world to Gold East Paper in Dagang District.

In 1999, Voith acquired the technical papermaking operations of British company Scapa, making it one of the leading companies for paper machine clothing technology.

Voith went from strength to strength in the field of technical industrial services.

In November 2008, Voith Hydro took over the small Austrian hydro company Kossler, which was based in St Georgen.

In 2008, Voith gathered with 200 customers and partners from all over the world to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the “Brunnenmuhle” in Heidenheim, which had previously been upgraded at an investment cost of €20 million.

The “Brunnenmuhle” is where Voith develops generators, turbines, control technology, shut-off valves and other hydro components.

Voith built a test turbine at its Heidenheim facility that was installed off the Scottish Orkney island of Eday from 2013 to 2015.

In 2013, the most powerful generator-turbine unit in Voith's history went into operation at the Chinese hydropower plant Xiluodu on the River Jinsha.

At the start of 2014, Voith Turbo announced that it was stopping the production of new locomotives.

Voith has had a presence in Brazil and India since the 1960s and in China since the early 1990s.

The Voith family is currently one of the wealthiest families in Germany.

Voith is engaged in projects in the education, social welfare, sporting and cultural spheres.

KGaA – in some cases in collaboration with charitable organizations and through the foundation Hanns Voith Stiftung established in 1953, and the Fundacao Voith set up in Brazil in 2004.

Voith Hydro is a full-line supplier of equipment for hydropower plants of all sizes.

Voith products are used in many large hydropower plants like Niagara, Itaipu and the Three Gorges Dam.

Voith Paper is a system supplier for the international paper industry that covers the entire paper manufacturing process.

Voith Turbo is a supplier of mechanical, hydrodynamic, electrical, hydraulic and electronic drive and braking systems.

Voith Turbo is the market leader worldwide for hydrodynamic transmissions.