Maschinenfabrik Herkules Meuselwitz

300 dedicated and highly skilled employees design and manufacture roll grinders, lathes and roll shop equipment at Herkules Meuselwitz. The mechanical engineering department develops solutions tailored to customers’ requirements. These are manufactured by the help of a modern machine inventory. It is situated in a production area of 19,000 m² and regular investments ensure that the machine inventory is always state of the art.

A comprehensive quality management system guarantees the high quality of the machine tools and all components. This quality is based on many years’ experience, qualified staff and a well-equipped shop floor with 45 modern machines.

A flexible manufacturing system allows for contract manufacture to the highest standards in the areas of sheet metal forming, welding, turning, milling and gear cutting.

The machine inventory – machines for mechanical manufacturing

• 4 portal milling machines
• 6 horizontal boring and milling machines
• 8 milling centers / milling machines
• 9 turning and milling centers / lathes
• 2 vertical lathes
• 7 grinding machines (surface grinding, cylindrical grinding, internal grinding)
• 7 gear cutting machines (gear rack milling, thread grinding, thread milling)
• 1 guideway hardening machine
• 1 keywaying machine
• Welding robots

Presidents
Maximilian Thoma, Jan Otterbach

Head of Production
Björn Benjamin Klein

Manager Mechanical Engineering
Stefan Schmidt

Manager Electrical Engineering
Harald Kraft

Service Contact
Stephan Wittig

Spare Parts Contact
Oliver Klein

Herkules Meuselwitz takes its roots from Heymer & Pilz GmbH Maschinenfabriken und Eisengießerei Meuselwitz,  founded in 1876. The company is specialized in the manufacture of heavy-duty machines, such as machines for briquetting brown coal.

After the National Socialists seize power, the company becomes part of the war economy and then, in the course of expropriation in 1948, a nationally-owned enterprise. The first roll grinders are manufactured in 1955. After the reunification of Germany, the company is privatized and now operates under the name of Maschinenfabrik und Eisengießerei Meuselwitz GmbH.

In 1992, Herkules acquires the long-established company. Structural changes, the optimization of the product range and investments soon lead to an increase in business. Since then, Herkules Meuselwitz is a successful company within the HerkulesGroup.