History

Mechanical engineering is our passion

Dating originally from 1948, The Hess Company has grown – over these intervening five decades – into a world-class leader in the field of technology applied to the machines used in the concrete-block and pipe manufacturing sector, and also into a major developer and supplier of the handling systems that go with these items.
The objective of the organization – and guiding principle for its above-average worldwide involvement with more than 500 employees – is to produce machines and systems for the concrete block industry that occupy the number one slot when it comes to reliability and technical innovation.
As a supplier of complete systems, Hess can offer a very wide range of products, including not just ultramodern block- and pipe-making plant equipment, but also concrete mixing and metering systems; along with the entire set of warehousing and material-handling technology associated with these areas.
Hess industrial machines and plant equipment have always been valued by our customers worldwide for their benchmark qualities of efficiency, functionality, reliability and long service life. These high-capacity, fully-automatic, block-making machines, with their innovative compression and vibration systems, should above all be regarded as milestone in the history of the development of mechanical engineering technology.
With Hess branch plants in China, Canada and France, and a globe-spanning network of representative agencies, with strong, independent subsidiaries such as Hess-Lorraine or Schlosser-Pfeiffer GmbH (the later acquired in 2002) with a competent, high-capacity mold supplier in the form of the HMB Maschinenbau GmbH we at the Hess Group would like to tell you about this solid and innovative partner for the concrete product industry worldwide…

A partner, by the way, that keeps its customers’ interests to the fore when offering individual financing concepts for the capital projects, while constantly improving its fine-tuned project logistics designed to ensure that national and international customer projects are created – from planning phase to completion, schedule.