50 years of mateco working platforms
Milestones of a success story
1973
maltech Hebebühnen-Vermietung GmbH & Co. is founded in Stuttgart. The business started with the hiring of truck-mounted working platforms. Scissor and telescopic working platforms followed a few years later.
1990
In Germany the foundation for the mateco network is laid with 6 branches.
1996
The foreign company in Luxembourg is founded.
1998
In Tychy/Kattowitz the Polish subsidiary is founded; additional locations follow.
1999
The company's name is changed to the non-listed mateco AG.
2000
mateco is the first rental company to have the highest platform of all at that time with a working height of 88 m. The largest all-wheel drive truck-mounted platform with a working height of 62 m is also part of the equipment fleet.
2007
Odewald & Compagnie Gesellschaft für Beteiligungen mbH assumes the majority share in mateco. Straub Mobilmietlift in Reutlingen changes into the stock company.
2008
The course of growth taken is consistently pursued. Mietlift GmbH in Dormagen is acquired.
2009
The two working platform rental companies Zülz (Ravensburg and Kempten) and Kühne (Kassel and Göttingen) are acquired.
2010
mateco maintains its expansion course and is established nationwide. A new branch in Munich is opened and the Bavarian company Top Lift Arbeitsbühnen is acquired.
The PlatformCard operator training course is certified according to ISO 18878:2004 and according to BGG/GUV-G 966.
2011
Internationally, mateco is not only represented with its own subsidiaries in Poland and Luxembourg – working platforms can be rented worldwide via cooperations. In Germany mateco is represented nationwide at 28 locations.
2012
The TVH Group with headquarters in Waregem, Belgium, purchases mateco AG. Then the company is renamed in mateco GmbH.
2013
mateco celebrates its 40th birthday.
2014
A hand-over station for self-drive truck- and trailer-mounted working platforms is opened in the Bergisches Land region in Wuppertal, Germany.
2015
Takeover of the IRMLER WOB-LIFT working platforms rental service in Wolfsburg.
2016
The ROHRMOSER working platforms rental company in Munich-Freiham is aquired.
2017
Opening of a new branch in Osnabrück. Acquisition of the Huber and Högele working platform rental company in Munich-Haar.
Our parent company TVH acquires 100% of the shares of Lavendon (Deutschland) Holding GmbH and thus the Gardemann Arbeitsbühnen GmbH.
2018
Gardemann und mateco schließen sich zusammen und firmieren ab dem 01.01.2018 unter der gemeinsamen Marke der „neuen“ mateco GmbH.
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2019
Company takeover in Cottbus and Frankfurt/Oder.
2020
Company expansion in Mannheim.
2021
Company takeover in Lübeck/Stockelsdorf and relocation of the headquarters from Stuttgart to Leonberg.