DELMAG specializes in pile driving equipment. New leads are developed and offered with additional accessories as complete piling systems. ABI takes over the responsibility for design, sales, service and final assembly of drilling rigs. DELMAG continues to manufacture components for drilling rigs like kelly bars, leads and rotary heads.

New drilling rig RH 32 is displayed at the bauma show. ABI supervises the development of the project and relies on proven DELMAG design features.

The new diesel pile hammer D150-42 is presented. After reaching the retirement age, Mr Dieter Seltmann leaves the company.

Mr. Matthias Heichel, a co-owner of the parent company ABI, joins the management.

The company ABI GmbH from Niedernberg (75%), together with their american partner Hammer & Steel (25%), acquire the piling and drilling equipment division. Mr. Dieter Seltmann, a long time employee of ABI, joins the management.
The world's largest diesel pile hammer D200 is delivered after successful tests.

The company DELKO GmbH takes over the compaction equipment division.

DELMAG declares insolvency, Mr. Arno Farber leaves the company. The insolvency administrator and the long time employee Mr. Winfried Scheid (manager piling and drilling division) take over the management. The drilling rig RH 18 with the DDK system (dual rotary head) is presented and honoured with the Innovation award at the bauma show.

Mr. Arno Farber joins the company and takes over the management. Hubert Boddenberg leaves the company.

A new generation of drilling rigs with the models RH 10, RH 12, RH 18 and RH 22 is developed and put on the market.

Mr. Hubert Boddenberg joins the company and take over the exclusive management. Previous management Jürgen Bartholomäi and Magnus Mauch leave the company.

Newly developed drilling rigs RH 1713 and RH 2513 are produced and displayed at the trade fair bauma.

So far the biggest drilling rig RH 4037 is produced. A floating ram for swiss army is developed.

Eberhard Dornfeld, son of the founder Reinhold Dornfeld, long time manager and partner of DELMAG passes away on 25th November.

The product range is being extended with new vibrating plates also with electric start and vibrating rammers. The new drilling rig RH 0610 completes the model range of drilling rigs. Hydraulic impact hammers with drop weights from 3 up to 16 tons are produced.

Mr. Jürgen Bartholomäi and Magnus Mauch take over the management. Mr. Fritz Kümmel resigns from management.          

A new generation of drilling rigs with the models RH 0812, RH 0912 and RH 1413 is developed and placed on the market.

A new diesel pile hammer generation in sizes D8 to D80/100, better and more cost efficient leads and new vibrating plates are developed. Electric and hydraulic vibrating hammers and vibrating rammers broaden the product range.

Besides Eberhard Dornfeld also Jürgen Bartholomäi and Fritz Kümmel are put in charge as manager.

Further change of corporate form to a limited partnership with a limited liability company as general partner (short GmbH + Co. KG). The shares are split to the families Bartholomäi and Dornfeld with 50% each.

National and international sale and service departments are strengthened. Re-designed explosion rammer (H2S), so far biggest diesel pile hammers D44 and D55, further vibrating plates (SV7000, SV1200) and the new hydraulic drilling rig RH 155 show the tendency to bigger machines.

The product range is extended: apart from rammers, diesel pile hammers, pile extractors also the first compactor (SV2), the high pressure rammer (DH2), the piling mast (GR 18/181) and other leads are produced.

The founder and managing director of DELMAG passes away on January 21st. Eberhard Dornfeld is from now on the sole general partner in the company.

Change of corporate form to a partnership. Reinhold Dornfeld promotes his son Eberhard Dornfeld to a equal general partner, after finishing his engineering study and joining the company in 1949.

Invention of the principle of impact atomization for diesel pile hammersby chief designer Haage. The new diesel pile hammers make DELMAG known in the whole world.

Change of corporate form to an individual enterprise as family property under the name of "DELMAG-Maschinenfabrik Reinhold Dornfeld".

First diesel pile hammer (system Prof. Seidl) is put on the market.

The DELMAG frog developed by the chief designer Mr. Haage causes a sensation at the trade fair in Leipzig.

The first explosion rammer in the world developed by Dipl.-Ing. Konrad Haage in cooperation with Ing. Albert Pflüger is patented on 16th Juli. DELMAG specializes in the production of road construction and civil engineering machines.

Mr. Reinhold Dornfeld founds on August 17th the "Deutsche Elektromaschinen- und Motorenbau Aktiengesellschaft" (short DELMAG) by a merger of the forerunner companies "Esslinger Holzbearbeitungsmaschinenfabrik Pflüger & Steinert" and " Walter Fischer & Co." The production range includes initially portable wood saws und cutting machines and electric motors with flexible shaft.