Start-ups and innovations

The Hagedorn Group is not only the fourth largest demolition company in the world and specialises in the revitalisation of power plants and industrial sites: The Group's civil engineering division also has over 230 employees nationwide and is growing steadily every year. With the founding of Hagedorn Bau Nürnberg GmbH in May, the division is now also expanding in southern Germany.

Almost 25 new employees have already been acquired. In future, the team will work together to drive forward and further develop the business in southern Germany. The company's expertise ranges from earthworks and sewer construction to industrial road construction, comprehensive civil engineering work and the construction of complete outdoor facilities. The company, based in Neunkirchen am Brand in Franconia, will be managed by Georg Diederichs, who has been head of Hagedorn's civil engineering division for many years, and the experienced entrepreneur Simon Mehl, who has strong roots in southern Germany.

In January, the Hagedorn Group merges with the Kerpen-based company Maaßen Erdbewegungen- Transporte GmbH. As a result, customers in the Rhineland in particular will benefit from an even broader range of services. Hagedorn is thus creating the best conditions for shaping structural change in the region and realising the upcoming infrastructure expansion.

IK Umwelt and Hagedorn join forces in August in the waste disposal and recycling division.
The newly founded HIK Umwelt Group creates a leading waste disposal and recycling specialist in north-west Germany. More than 2.5 million tonnes of recycled building materials are produced each year at eleven locations. The plan is to double this volume within a few years.

Within not even three decades, the Hagedorn Company Group has indeed made the grade: the Group is listed as one of the five most successful demolition companies in the world - and that for a second consecutive time. According to the latest ranking study conducted by the international magazine »d&ri, Demolition and Recycling International«, Hagedorn succeeded in remaining Number 5 in 2021.

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Merger with Wasel

Merger with Stave

The year of 2020 was a successful one for the Hagedorn Company Group. In Hanover-Misburg/Germany, we set up the first recycling centre with trimodal logistics connections. And in this year, too, our "Woman on a Building Site” campaign is launched in full swing. We have reaped such success in not even three decades and now belong to the five most successful demolition companies throughout the world. According to the latest ranking study conducted by the international magazine »d&ri, Demolition and Recycling International« in 2020, Hagedorn climbed up the listings by an astounding eight places.

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Hagedorn Buys Biggest Demolition Excavator

Award as "Excellent Training Company"

Top Job 2020

CSR Prize East Westphalia 2020

New Location in Berlin

In 2019 we take first place as the Top Innovator in the 26th staging of the TOP 100 innovation competition.

The year of 2019 also witnessed changes in corporate structuring. The Hagedorn GmbH – our demolition specialist – is divided up into legally autonomous units. The Hagedorn Gütersloh GmbH sees to demolition projects stretching from North-Rhine Westphalia to southern Germany, the Hagedorn Hannover GmbH – once launched as a branch – as usual looks after business from the North to the East of the country, the Hagedorn Köln GmbH (formerly Jean Harzheim GmbH & Co. KG) remains our competent partner in the Rhineland and the Hagedorn Abbruchservice GmbH, in which all special services (such as wind power installation dismantling, gutting & pollutant remediation, demolition statics & dismantling concepts, blasting technology and haulage) of our demolition line of business are bundled. In addition, ›Andreas Hollmann Transporte‹ becomes part of the Hagedorn Company Group. From now on this company will be known as the Hagedorn Schüttgut GmbH. And last but not least, the Hagedorn Gütersloh GmbH opens a branch in Ulm/Germany.

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Development and Setting Up of Machinery Simulators

Schüttflix launches

In 2018 we receive distinctions. With the TOP JOB quality seal, which examines companies that campaign in a particularly remarkable way for a healthy workplace culture. And at the same time we are honoured with the TOP 100 seal. TOP 100 is the only competition revolving around innovation management. Every year for over 25 years it has been distinguishing and honouring the most innovational companies making up German medium-sized businesses.

How all that came about? Result of the founding of the Hagedorn Academy, with which we offer new standards in training and upskilling for internal and external workers. Barbara Hagedorn: »Good employees are the vital factor in the equation. Staff recruitment and the qualifications of the workforce are essential for survival today.«

But there are also big changes in our day-to-day business: our Authorised Signatory and Divisional Head for Civil Engineering Mirko Holtkamp takes over management of the Hagedorn Bau GmbH from Thomas Hagedorn on 1 January 2018. Furthermore, the Hagedorn Company Group expands its demolition portfolio by adding the business of blasting technology.

It has never happened before: in 2016 Hagedorn founds with Brownfield24 a unique online market place and unites the two target groups. On Brownfield24.com, landowners who wish to place areas for conversion on the market meet developers who are specifically looking for suitable plots for their projects.

Furthermore, our Gütersloh Recycling Centre celebrates 10 years in operation and, in the GWG Centre’s Authorised Signatory Alfred Winkelmann, it gains a new Managing Director to work alongside Frank Kramer.

We experience dynamic growth. Our staff numbers rise in 2015 to around 320 employees. That means we require an extension to Head Office in Gütersloh by means of a third floor being added to the entire area of the administration block. Barbara Hagedorn is then instrumental in implementing efficient working conditions, which lead to innovative organisational development and quick and lively collaboration amongst staff.

An extra bonus: for the first time we appear in the ranking list of the 100 largest and most successful demolition companies in the world. And we make it to Number 17.

In 2014, Barbara Hagedorn launched the MIThelfen project, in which employees of the Hagedorn Group decide for themselves how and where they want to actively help in the region. Hagedorn releases them for the time of their commitment and also supports them financially.

The Hagedorn team is an exceptionally high-performing squad. Special characteristics? Team spirit and something internally referred to as the Hagedorn gene. Explained for the first time in the Hagedorn team book and recorded as short guiding principles in red on white. So even new members of the growing team quickly understand what matters. For example: fairness, respect, appreciation, honesty and reliability. These values are also conveyed in the new Hagedorn Magazine Update.

At Steinexpo 2014 in Homberg, the international construction equipment company Sandvic honors a company with the Customer Innovation Award for the first time. The "winner" of the award is Hagedorn. The background for the award is a long-standing partnership between the two companies, in which Hagedorn takes on the role of both customer and developer.

Frank Kramer, qualified geologist, admirably supports the Management Board of the growing GWG Centre at Gütersloh and coordinates company activities together with Authorised Signatory and Operations Manager Alfred Winkelmann.

Success in the target markets ensures continuous corporate growth. Hagedorn invests in topping up its machinery, increasing its number of skilled workers and in extending its administration facilities.

Managing Director Barbara Hagedorn, who is not only responsible for corporate communication and brand management but also for the strategic development of the Group, paves the way for further growth with an innovative new building so that work can be carried out in a future-oriented and also service-oriented way.

The new administration block on the Werner-von-Siemens-Strasse provides space for the coordination of all the nation-wide activities. State-of-the-art technology and transparent offices and conference rooms create a light and open environment conducive to efficient processes, which benefit clients and members of staff alike. Apart from a newly created training and learning area, Hagedorn has also invested in the company’s own childcare centre.

The building rubble recycled by Hagedorn is met with great interest in the area, particularly for the purpose of road building thanks to its high quality. So on the site adjacent to the Hagedorn GmbH, the Gütersloher Wertstoffzentrum GmbH (Gütersloh Recycling Centre - GWG) is founded. In its role as a professional waste disposal agent, the GWG covers the business divisions of waste disposal and road building materials.

The services offered by the Hagedorn GmbH are annually inspected for their quality by an independent institute. In 2006 the company is awarded the RAL quality seal. And ever since its founding, Hagedorn has been an active member of the German Demolition Association.