Vision, Mission & History

Tradition and progress have a long history at PRINZING. PRINZING was founded in 1862 by the master blacksmith Georg Prinzing. Obviously in those years there was no need for equipment for precast concrete parts. But at this time the founder‘s aim was to supply craftsmen and farmers with forged hardware of all kinds.

From the beginning PRINZING was an innovative and forward-looking company. Pressing and forging machinery was driven by using water power. PRINZING was also the pioneer in producing electricity for the local village Weiler. The progression from the craftsman‘s establishment to an ultra-modern and innovative producer of machinery was always influenced by developments and PRINZING being flexible responds always very quickly to market needs. From about 1907 PRINZING specialized in the production of equipment for newly developed precast concrete parts. Simple wet-cast moulds were built to produce bricks, kerbstones and concrete pipes. Thousand of such moulds were produced and sold in Germany and abroad.

With the introduction of vibration technology, in which PRINZING was pioneering involved, the production of precast

concrete parts could be rationalized. This was also the starting signal for the industrial production of precast concrete parts in large quantities of much good quality.

One of PRINZING‘s developments, the patented central vibrator, resulted in the worldwide export of machines for the production of pipes and cable stones in the 50‘s. At this time the first manhole machine was developed, which was chain driven and electrically operated. By 1970 it was possible to increase the output of the manhole machines and the quality of the products considerably, due to the introduction of hydraulics.

The next step was the development of the mobile vibrating tilting molding machine for the production of hollow blocks, kerbstones and similar products. These machines were primarily built until the early 1980s and over 240 were sold worldwide.

In the 1980s, the time had come for specialization. Due to the good reputation of PRINZING manhole ring systems in the professional world, the focus was increasingly placed in this direction from this point onwards. In retrospect, this decision

seems to have been the right one, as more than 130 units of the fully automatic TORNADO manhole ring machine, for example, have now been sold worldwide.

In 1987, PRINZING celebrated its 125th anniversary and at the same time put the extended office building into operation.
The following 90s were also characterized by far-reaching developments. All the machine concepts of the time (MISTRAL, HERKULES, TORNADO, BLIZZARD, BIMATIC) were revised and adapted to the requirements of the world market.  

In the first decade of the new millennium, two further machine concepts were added to the production and delivery program. The new machine concepts ZELUS (2003) and PRIMUSS (2008) are production systems with which PRINZING was able to penetrate new sales markets.

The year 2014 marks the final step in PRINZING's development. As part of the formation of the TOPWERK Group, SCHLOSSER-PFEIFFER, another company with a long tradition, and its product range were integrated. Since then, both companies have been operating together under the name PRINZING-PFEIFFER GmbH.