The specialist for professional farming
As manufacturers of machinery for soil cultivation, sowing and plant protection, LEMKEN currently employs approximately 1,000 people worldwide. The company is in the sixth and seventh generation of ownership by the LEMKEN family. LEMKEN’s headquarters
are located in Alpen, a town in the Lower Rhine area of Germany, 50 km north-west of Düsseldorf. LEMKEN produces about 15,000 machines per year with a turnover of 340 million € in 2012. Thus LEMKEN is one of the leading
companies in Europe. With a market share of more than 40 % for reversible ploughs LEMKEN is established as German market leader.
LEMKEN News
30.04.2013
LEMKEN doubles capacity for the polishing of parts
Polished mouldboards are a very important condition for ploughing without soil sticking and they make the plough easy to pull. That is why LEMKEN mouldboards have always been polished, since 2009 by a specially programmed robot. Now this robot is joined by a partner which doubles the polishing capacity. The purchase worth 175,000 € is part of a huge range of investments to increase LEMKEN's capacity in the production of parts. In future...more
30.04.2013
Me and my LEMKEN
We are looking for your best photo with a LEMKEN machine on our facebook site. From now until 12/05/2013 all LEMKEN facebook fans can take part in the contest. Fans decide themselves who wins the competition. The three photos with the highest number of votes ...more
25.04.2013
Successful training
Three LEMKEN apprentices successfully participated in the regional young scientists’ competition “Jugend forscht” this year. The team submitted a “toad plough” which took them all the way through to victory in this prestigious competition. The device they developed facilitates the construction of toad fences and thus helps protect these amphibians effectively against the hazards of road traffic when they migrate to their spawning sites.In...more
