FAUN HISTORY
The 164-year-old tradition of our company is the story of continuous technological innovation with the highest reliability.
FAUN’s 164-year history
| 2008 | Development of the ROTOPRESS DUALPOWER. A hybrid vehicle able to harness braking energy to operate electric motors |
| 2007 | TRACKWAY (mobile temporary track for uneven surfaces) production is intensified at FAUN MV, Llangefni, (GB) |
| 2006 | Development of the Curved Body and the VIAJET FILTAIR |
| 2003 | FAUN Services GmbH is established as a separate company for buying an selling pre-owned waste disposal vehicles as well as arranging rental and leasing options. |
| 2002 | On 1st March 2002, the world’s most up-to-date production plant for waste disposal vehicles is inaugurated in Osterholz-Scharmbeck. 350 people are employed at the new plant. |
| 1995 | FAUN Umwelttechnik AG is converted from a joint stock company into the new partnership FAUN Umwelttechnik GmbH & Co. KG |
| 1994 | FAUN AG is taken over by the Kirchhoff Group in Iserlohn |
| 1993 | Focus on the production of refuse disposal vehicles and truck-mounted sweepers |
| 1983 | FAUN acquires KUKA Umwelttechnik |
| 1980 | The domestic refuse collection vehicle programme is complemented by a new range of waste collection vehicles using compression which are universally suitable for domestic and commercial refuse collection (FHP types). The cleaning vehicle range is extended with the introduction of a small, mechanically collecting city cleaning vehicle (AK 316). |
| 1976 | Creation of a dealer network in Europe and expansion of the overall export activities. |
| 1974 | Development of the new generation of pneumatically operated vehicles and expansion of the municipal vehicle range through the incorporation of canal cleaning vehicles into the production and distribution programme. |
| 1973 | Reorganisation of the entire FAUN company is carried out. The plant in Osterholz-Scharmbeck takes over the municipal vehicles product group as an economically autonomous profit centre and becomes responsible for the development, construction, production, distribution and customer service of these vehicles. |
| 1950 | Development and production of road sweeping vehicles is resumed. |
| 1946 | Production of the refuse collection vehicles is resumed after the war. |
| 1943 | The FAUN factories are completely destroyed during World War 2. |
| 1927 | The first rotating drum refuse collection truck is developed |
| 1922 | The Grange company was founded (FAUN Environnement SAS) |
| 1916 | Unification of the works in Ansbach and Nuremberg into ‘Fahrzeugwerke Ansbach und Nürnberg AG’, from which the initial letters form the company name ‘FAUN’. |
| 1908 | Start of production of refuse collection vehicles and sweepers |
| 1897 | The first `dust cart‘, especially for collecting rubbish, is produced |
| 1846 | Hans Jakob Ochsner founded OCHSNER in Oberhallau, Switzerland, as a wheelwright’s workshop …more |
| 1845 | Foundation of the vehicle manufacturing company Ansbach and Nuremberg as an iron foundry by Justus Christian Braun |