Our mission statement
VOLKMANN - Ideas ahead
At our company, ideas are born that find a home with customers all over the world. These ideas can benefit an individual customer application or can improve the general process solutions we offer.
The developments of our team are versatile and ingenious. As a partner in the process, we take on responsibility for the success, the safety, and the reliability of the final solution.
Competences for your success
Tailor-made solutions for our customers’ tasks: that’s exactly our thing. We bring all our competences to bear so that our customers receive a powerful, secure, efficient, and high-quality solution.
Advice by Volkmann
The optimal solution for your task – this is our ambition. Together with you, we analyse the requirements and provide solutions.
Design / Development / Project Management
We process orders as a team effort. In close coordination between design, sales, production, and service, we ensure that all specifications are met, and that safe operation of the device or system is guaranteed.
Our Production
Quality is very important to us. And that is why many components are manufactured in-house.
Tests and demonstrations in the technical centre
Only through a test can the behaviour of a product during handling and conveying be determined. Our technical centre and laboratory offer the right conditions.
Explosion Risk Prevention / ATEX
When emptying containers, extracting, conveying, and feeding flammable bulk materials, special aspects of explosion protection must be considered and safely solved.
Our headquarters in Soest
The heart of Volkmann GmbH beats in Soest, Westphalia. This is where we develop, design and manufacture our products. Our large technical centre for process engineering tests is located here. Our service department looks after our customers worldwide in close co-operation with the service teams in our subsidiaries. The close co-operation between all departments at one location and the short communication channels mean that processes are streamlined and unbureaucratic. From the initial idea to the finished product, all process steps take place in-house – and this results in the high quality of our products.
You can find contact information, opening hours and travel information as well as the locations of our branches here.
The company’s history
Volkmann GmbH is based in Soest in Westphalia and was founded in 1973 by Jürgen and Ingrid Volkmann as a consulting company for production automation. The company started in the early years with applications within vacuum technology. Our own ideas and developments such as the patented „Säuferbalken“® (combined vacuum stripping process for drying belt surfaces and for liquid recovery in mills) and the patented Multijector® (special construction form of a multi-stage ejector vacuum pump operated by compressed air) made the company a partner driven by ideas and application technologies for customers from widespread branches of industry.
Thilo Volkmann now heads the company since 1992 and is the second generation. Today, Volkmann is a specialist in the transport and handling of bulk materials. In particular, Volkmann offers customers from the Chemical, Food Processing and Pharmaceutical Industry class leading standards as well as individually planned and produced systems for the safe, hygienic and user-friendly handling of powders and bulk materials. Thanks to a professional and creative team, Volkmann consistently produces new and better solutions for itself and its customers which can be manufactured with the company’s modern machinery and lean manufacturing principles. Volkmann currently employs over 160 people in Soest and has subsidiaries and branches in the UK, France, the Netherlands, the USA and Japan. Internationally, Volkmann is present in many countries with its own representatives.
