Weinig Brand Guidelines: The Tauberbischofsheim Moulder Maker Founded in 1905

A trading business that rebuilt itself after 1945.

Weinig was founded in 1905 by Michael Weinig in Tauberbischofsheim, in the Main-Tauber district of Baden-Württemberg. The company describes the early business as a trading and manufacturing company, and the trade lexicon Wood Tec Pedia says its line was agricultural machinery. German Wikipedia says production stopped during the Second World War.

The woodworking company dates from the years after it. Bertold Weinig rebuilt the dormant business from 1945, and in 1947 it turned to woodworking machines. German Wikipedia and Wood Tec Pedia both say that in 1948 Weinig became the first in its sector to introduce series production. Georg Demuth joined that year and, according to Wood Tec Pedia, became a shareholder in 1955.

Wood Tec Pedia’s dated history gives the outline of what followed. In 1964 the range was narrowed to moulders, the planing and profiling machines that turn rough timber into finished sections. In 1970 Weinig introduced timed conveyor assembly at its works. A subsidiary in Japan followed in 1974, one in the United States in 1976 and one in Britain in 1982. Bertold Weinig and Georg Demuth stepped back in 1987.

Moulders first, then the whole solid-wood line.

The company’s reputation rests on moulders, and their model names carry much of the brand. Wood Tec Pedia dates the maturing of the hydraulic tool system behind the Hydromat series to 1975, the fully automated Unimat 3000 to 1999 and the launch of the Powermat series to 2004. It records the Powermat 3000 as the new flagship of the series in 2017 and the Powermat 700 Black-Line in 2018. Alongside them sit the Rondamat tool grinders, a field Wood Tec Pedia says Weinig entered in 1975, and the Conturex CNC machining system presented in 2005. Window machines came in 1979.

The group grew by buying specialists along the solid-wood process. Wood Tec Pedia lists Dimter in 1993, a majority of the Fagus-GreCon engineering business from 1998, Raimann of Freiburg in 2001 and LuxScan of Luxembourg, a maker of wood scanners, in 2007, and all of GreCon in 2016. In 2023 it took majority stakes in H.I.T. Maschinenbau, on a contract dated 21 March, EUWID reported on 19 April, and agreed a strategic cooperation with Essetre of Thiene, Italy, on CNC joinery machines, announced on 17 May. Wood Tec Pedia says it took over the Stähle-Hess sanding machine portfolio in 2024.

The step into panels was Holz-Her, the panel-processing maker of Nürtingen. Woodshop News reported in July 2010 on Weinig’s acquisition of its assets, and the company dates the integration to 2010. That gave Weinig edgebanders, CNC machining centres and panel saws, sold under a separate name.

Brand architecture has been an explicit project. On 20 March 2015 Lesprom reported the rebranding of two group companies as Weinig Dimter and Weinig Grecon. “The Weinig name is renowned for quality and reliable leading technology worldwide,” then CEO Wolfgang Pöschl said, and the change was described as aligning the company with that reputation. The February 2026 release sets out three divisions: WEINIG Solid, combining the WEINIG and Essetre brands; WEINIG Panel, with the Holz-Her brand; and WEINIG System Solutions, for plant and turnkey projects, with H.I.T. Maschinenbau as a system integrator.

The company writes its name in capitals in its own material. Its profile page opens with the line “Made in Germany – success in black and white,” and it says more than 150,000 of its machines are in operation around the globe.

Weinig calls itself the world’s largest maker of machines and systems for solid wood processing. The Baden-Württemberg state government used the same description in a release on 27 February 2023, when minister Peter Hauk visited the company.

How woodworking machinery makers present themselves.

Woodworking machinery is sold on the look of the work as much as the look of the machine. A nesting CNC table loaded with a sheet of birch ply, the parts of a cabinet marked out across it, is one of the category’s standard pictures. So is an edge bander with panels feeding through in a line, each one leaving with a finished edge.

The colour of the machine often does a lot of the recognition work. Sliding table saws and planers tend to appear in a maker’s machine green or grey, photographed square-on against pale timber, with curls of shavings gathered under a planer as the proof that it has been running. Hand-held tools get a closer view: a plunge saw on a rail, its dust port in frame.

The setting changes with the customer. Factory shots show long lines and automated handling for furniture producers, while other pictures move to a joinery workshop with a bench, a stack of boards and a single operator. Many makers use both, because their ranges run from the small shop to the industrial plant.

Trade fairs are the category’s shop window. LIGNA in Hanover, Xylexpo in Italy, IWF in Atlanta and Holz-Handwerk in Nuremberg are where new machines are shown running, often linked together on a stand to suggest a working production line rather than a row of separate products. For a sector that sells to engineers and cabinetmakers alike, the running demonstration matters as much as the brochure. This guide looks at what can be checked about each brand: who founded it, who owns it and what it says about where its machines are made.

An unlisted group, reshaping its German plants.

Weinig’s ownership changed in the 1980s. German Wikipedia says the company has been majority-owned by Kuwaiti investors since 1984, and Wood Tec Pedia dates the sale to 1984/1987. It became a stock corporation in 1988 and was listed from 1989 to 2002. EUWID reported in September 2002 that a squeeze-out of the remaining small shareholders had been concluded at the annual general meeting on 30 August that year.

The company’s website names Olympic fencing champion Thomas Bach as chairman of the supervisory board since 1998, and Woodshop News quoted him in that role in 2010. German Wikipedia says the management board shrank from three members to two in July 2026, leaving chief executive Gregor Baumbusch and finance chief Michael Amann.

Tauberbischofsheim remains the headquarters. The company describes itself as “Made in Germany,” and its February 2026 release lists production and assembly sites in Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, the United States and China. Wood Tec Pedia dates the plant at Yantai, China, to 1997. The company says a highly automated logistics and manufacturing centre has been built at the headquarters, part of what it calls the largest investment in its history, with further investment at Voitsberg in Austria.

The footprint in Germany is now being concentrated. On 20 February 2026 Weinig announced Transformation 2027, under which machine production would move from Malterdingen and Alfeld to sites including Illertissen and Tauberbischofsheim, with sales, service and engineering staying at both. The company said around 400 jobs would be affected, mainly in Germany. OKNA.ua reported on 4 June 2026 that production at Malterdingen would end by the close of 2026 under an agreement with IG Metall and the works council, with no redundancies for operational reasons and the product portfolio unchanged. Wood Tec Pedia records an earlier consolidation in 2015, when operations at Waco Jonsereds in Halmstad, Sweden, a business bought in 1992, were discontinued.

For a design guide, Weinig shows how a maker can build recognition on a family of model names and then gather its acquisitions under one word, while keeping a second brand for a different material. Compare HOMAG of Schopfloch and Altendorf of Minden, two other German woodworking machinery names. For this guide we use ink, oak and shavings with an engineering sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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