Hydraulics Systems

The early history of the Haldex Hydraulics division dates as far back as 1886, when a company in Berlin was founded under the name Reichert. Since the company started to manufacture cog-wheel pumps in 1908, this year marks the 100th anniversary of this important Haldex product.

Another link to history can be traced back to the Swedish company Hesselman, which started to manufacture components and engines for the automotive industry in the late 1920s and hydraulic systems in the early 1960s. The John S Barnes Corporation, a US company founded by Swedes, was established in Rockford, Illinois, in 1929 for the manufacture of hydraulic systems.

In the mid-1980s, Hesselman, Haldex and Garphyttan were consolidated under the name Haldex AB. A few years later, in 1987, the constellation of companies also acquired the US company, JS Barnes. Schabmüller, a German manufacturer of direct-current motors, was acquired two years later. In the first year of the next decade, the old Germany company Reichert was acquired. At the time, Reichert was a Vickers company engaged in the production of hydraulic pumps in Statesville, NC, in the US.

In 1994, the group of companies was renamed Garphyttan Pumps & Systems and included Hesselman, Schabmüller and JS Barnes. Schabmüller was sold the following year to a Danish company, and the new operations were renamed Haldex Hydraulic Systems in 2002.