A company on the road to success
Milestones of Humbaur GmbH
1957 | Founded by Anton Humbaur at Donauwörth as a manufacturer of agricultural machinery (trailers, ploughs, grain mills etc.) |
1978 / 1979 | Decline in agricultural machinery sales. Anton Humbaur decided to include new products in his sales programme |
1980 | Relocation to Gersthofen, construction of a new warehouse and office building |
1981 | Car trailer distribution and sales commence. In the initial phase, these were imported from Italy, converted for the German market and sold on from Gersthofen |
1982 | Ulrich Humbaur, our present managing director, joined the company |
1984 | We start manufacturing our own car trailers |
1985 | Formation of Humbaur GmbH |
1989 | End of the distribution and sales of agricultural machinery and the consistent build-up of the production of trailers for private and commercial use |
1998 | Start of the production of horse trailers |
2001 | Construction of and relocation to new administration and production facilities (22,000 m²) at Mercedesring, Gersthofen |
2004 | Humbaur heavy-duty range is presented at the IAA in Hanover for the first time |
2005 | Construction of a second production workshop at Gersthofen – state-of-the-art production technology across more than 23,000 m² |
2006 | Expansion of the heavy-duty range with 30 t flatbed turntable trailer |
2006 | The BIG ONE semi-trailer product family is presented at the IAA in Hanover for the first time |
2008 | Launch of the Rexus box trailer in sporty retro design |
2008 | Expansion of the freight programme, additional BIG ONE semi-trailer models: BIG ONE COIL and BIG ONE CONNECT |
