Ammann Group
Ammann Group Holding AG is a Swiss mechanical engineering company specialised on machines for the building industry and road construction.
As of 2012, the company employs a workforce of about 3,400. It is incorporated in Bern, but its offices are located in Langenthal.
The company is a family business founded in 1869 by Jakob Ammann. Ammann developed an internal-combustion powered Road roller in 1911. From 1931, the company also acted as representative of Caterpillar Inc. in Switzerland. In the 1980s, Ammann Group expanded to Germany and France, and currently has production facilities in eight locations, Langenthal in Switzerland, Alfeld and Hennef in Germany, Verona in Italy, Nové Město nad Metují in the Czech Republic, Shanghai in China, Gravatai in Brazil and Ahmedabad in India.
From 1990 until his election to the Swiss Federal Council in 2010, the company chairman was Johann Schneider-Ammann.
Since the appointment as CEO of Hans-Christian Schneider, the son of Johann Schneider-Ammann, the company has been administered in the owner family's sixth generation.
