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Lemken Rubin 10 assembly line.
Crop production technology supplier Lemken is celebrating its 240th birthday.
Established in a small blacksmith’s shop in Xanten on the Lower Rhine in 1780 by Wilhelmus Lemken, it is a leading supplier of crop production technology with more than 1,600 employees and 29 sales subsidiaries worldwide.
Lemken started out by forging ploughs, cultivators and harrows for local farmers. In 1969, Viktor Lemken took over the management of the family business and drove its development through innovation and a focus on exports and the opening of eastern markets from the 1990s onwards.
Now led by Nicola Lemken, the 7th-generation of the family business, the company continues to focus on professional crop production that is characterised by innovation and high quality. The company realigned its crop care segment earlier in 2020 to focus on camera-controlled hoeing technology and the selective application of crop care products.
A key part of the company’s ethos is the responsible use of resources at its production sites, with the Alpen facility being carbon-neutral in its consumption of electricity, thanks to on-site combined heat and power plants and extensive, smartly controlled energy cycles between administration and production facilities.
Lemken focuses strongly on its employees, so it is appropriate that their reminiscences feature strongly in celebrating the 240th anniversary, alongside the technical developments.
Scheduled for release later in the year at Germany’s Agritechnica Event, Lemken’s new Solitair PT is a power harrow/drill combination designed for farmers and contractors who want to work in a wide range of soil conditions, achieving a good seedbed combined with precise drilling in one pass.
Available as part of the Lemken portfolio, a leading name in advanced seeding technology, Equalizer, sees its CII 8/762N Planter arrive in the New Zealand marketplace via Lemken dealers.
Designed specifically for large farms that want to drill with maximum flexibility, efficiency and power, the new Lemken Solitair ST seed drill offers a useful entry into precision farming.
The new Lemken Solitair MR series mounted drills, available in three or four metre working widths, features a 1500-litre tank, which is suitable for fertiliser even in its basic configuration.
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