CEO DIARIES
Double girder crane with 20t capacity being used in a production for heat treatment of steel.
on the CeMAT in Hanover made a lasting impression on me.
Besides running the crane business, my grandfather and my father had leading positions in the industry in various organisations. Among others, my father, Heinz Helmut Kempkes, was first deputy to the president of the German Institute for Standardisation (DIN) and president of the European Materials Handling Federation (FEM). In his position at FEM, he represented
more than half of the worldwide production volume in the materials handling industry. All this was followed by his engagements in the Association of Materials Handling and Intralogistics in VDMA, when he chaired the cranes and hoists department that he formed in 2004 from two divisions. Heinz Helmut Kempkes was also a member
of the Presidium of the German Federation of Industrial Research Associations (AIF) and one of the leaders to found the Research
Association Intralogistics/Conveyor Technology and Logistics Systems (IFL) at our company premises in Remscheid, to name just a few. Therefore, the largest financial daily newsletter in Germany, Handelsblatt, named him “lord of cranes and crabs”. For his outstanding commitment, in 2013 he was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. I very much appreciate that my father never put pressure on me to take over the family
Single girder gantry crane with 2x3,2t and total 5t capacity, with platform for service access, used in an outdoor service area. 22 | July 2025 |
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