Germany’s Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH & Co. KG reports that it will invest €15.5 million to expand machine production capacity for the wire and cable industry.

A press release from the OEM said that the company recently held two ground-breaking ceremonies at the company’s headquarters in Schwabach and at its branch plant at Leuterschach to mark the start of the construction work. The factory in Schwabach will be expanded by two halls—a manufacturing hall and a logistics hall—that are scheduled to go into operation in August 2025. Like the existing halls of the modern factory opened in 2015, the two new ones will also have a photovoltaic system on the roofs and use geothermal energy for heating and cooling technology.

At Leuterschach, Niehoff has acquired an additional 3,500 sq m of factory premises and will build another hall and outdoor facilities there, expanding the existing production area by 1,700 sq m for storage, assembly and testing. The release said that the owners of the family business are investing the €15.5 million not just for the additional capacity but to further their sustainability goals. Since the beginning of 2021, 100% of the electricity in both the Schwabach and the Leuterschach factories have been generated from hydropower and is therefore carbon-free.

The company attaches great importance to the long-term durability of its products and stands for the manufacture of machines featuring reliability, process stability, high productivity, energy and materials efficiency, and reduced CO2 emissions. Consequently, Niehoff is also certified by the German Environmental Auditors Board EMAS, belongs to the Blue Competence sustainability initiative of the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) and with a view to its corporate social responsibility (CSR) cooperates with the international platform for sustainability ratings EcoVadis.

Niehoff Group has a workforce of around 1,300 employees worldwide and is comprised of its headquarters, its branch plants at Leuterschach in Germany, NST in Badalona-Barcelona, Spain, and manufacturing subsidiaries in Brazil, the U.S., the Czech Republic, India, China, and Sweden, along with sales and service centers in Japan, Singapore, and Mexico.