Hydraulic scrap shear for Luria Brothers, USA

Pioneering cooperation with Lake Erie

Operations finally returned to Düsseldorf in 1952. Waldemar once again changed the company's name, to Lindemann Maschinenfabrik GmbH Düsseldorf and, together with his daughter Ingelore, cranked up the business in earnest. The demand for large scrap baling presses increased tremendously after World War II. Waldemar founded Lindemann KG seven years later, starting in 1959 as a pure sales company, paving the way for international trade, including in the USA. Their pioneering cooperation with Lake Erie, a hydraulics company based in Buffalo, was a milestone at the time. Meanwhile, the great era of scrap shears was taking off at the end of the 1950s. In 1958, the world's first hydraulically operated scrap shear, with a shear force of 1,200 t, was delivered to Luria Brothers, the largest scrap company in the USA at the time. Many other special shears followed.