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Glowing enthusiasm

Lightweight, high-quality, sustainable and with great precision: we shape molten iron and are constantly developing our processes further - for customers all over the world.
Iron foundry with a future

More than 70 years of experience as a supplier and partner to the global automotive, commercial vehicle and hydraulics industries - that's what Fritz Winter Eisengießerei stands for. We develop and produce raw and finished components as well as complex system components, also in lightweight construction. As a medium-sized family business, we are proud to be one of the largest independent foundries in the world.

We never stand still: we are constantly working on innovative production concepts and are facing up to the challenges of our time, such as the mobility of tomorrow and the requirements of sustainability. To protect our environment and its resources, we rely on sustainable materials and source recycled iron as a raw material for our high-tech products. We are investing in the iron foundry of tomorrow. This means that Fritz Winter is already sustainable, innovative and globally present - in other words: ready for the future!

Fritz Winter in figures

3.300
Employees at
at 4 locations
748
million euros turnover
1951
founded
family business
+270
million euros invested in
the last six years
100%
recycled material
as a raw material
324k
Tonnage

The Fritz Winter company

From foundation to global automotive partner.

Extraordinary companies are founded by extraordinary people. Fritz Winter undoubtedly belongs to this circle of people. His ability to inspire people with his ideas was crucial to the success of Fritz Winter Eisengießerei. Winter founded his first foundry in 1932 at the age of just 22 and developed it into one of the most important in central Germany before losing it after the end of the war due to expropriation. But he did not give up and founded the Fritz Winter company, which is now one of the largest independent foundries in Europe.

Idealism, expertise, drive and an indomitable will to succeed, combined with human greatness and a sense of social responsibility - these are the values he embedded in Fritz Winter Eisengießerei, and they still have an impact today.

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"Without humor 
nothing works - without heart 
especially not!"

The motto of company 
founder Fritz Winter

The success of Fritz Winter
Immerse yourself in history.
2021
Second ecoCasting foundry
Expansion of the ecoCasting process in the area of commercial vehicle cylinder blocks
2019
New training center
Investment of 750,000 euros in the future of training
2018
New technology center
Expansion of capacities with the Brake Technology Center
2017
Expansion into the USA
Opening of the foundry in Franklin (KY, USA)
2015
Company formation
Founded 27 years after the first delivery to Asia
2014
First ecoCasting foundry
New foundry sets standards in quality and sustainability
2007
Special core shop for commercial vehicle cylinder heads
Expansion for commercial vehicle cylinder heads with the first fully automated core shop for this product group
2001
New core shop for cylinder blocks
Commissioning of the world's first fully automated core shop for cylinder blocks
1988
First delivery to Asia
Opening up and supplying a new market
1975
First ventilated brake disk
Casting of the first ventilated brake disk for better heat dissipation
1966
First overseas delivery
Fritz Winter's first products in the USA
1959
Product premiere
Casting of the first cylinder blocks
1953
100 percent scrap steel
Use of material base made from 100 percent steel scrap
1951
Company foundation
On January 8, 1951, Fritz Winter founded the Fritz Winter Eisengießerei oHG