Arnold – we turn metal into an experience

Our mission: We inspire people, without limits

With the strategy to be the leading brand that creates experiences from, with and through metal. Enthusiasm is reflected in the results of our work, which are characterized above all by bold designs, technological innovations, high material and processing quality and speed of implementation.

Rational factors such as processing quality, safety of use, durability, competitiveness and reliability are just as important to us as the fact that we see ourselves as a long-term, cooperative and reliable business partner.

Vision

Arnold - the metal experience makers. Arnold's strategy aims to be the leading brand that creates experiences from, with and through metal.

Mission

We inspire people, without limits. Enthusiasm is reflected in the results of our work, which are characterized above all by bold designs, technological innovations, high material and processing quality as well as speed of implementation. are characterized. Rational factors such as processing quality, safety in use, durability, ompetitiveness and reliability reliability are just as much a matter of course for us as the fact that we see ourselves as a long-term, cooperative and reliable business partner.

Customers – our orientation

We see ourselves as a reliable, long-term partner for our customers.
With our services, we contribute to the sustainable success of our customers.
We use the wishes and suggestions of our customers to consistently develop our range of services and our processes.
We exclude assemblies for animal testing.

Employees and leadership – our potential

We continuously train our employees.
We ensure that all functions are always ready for action.
We offer our employees challenging tasks in an environment with a high level of occupational safety.
We work in a team-oriented, focused and goal-oriented manner.
We actively involve employees in decisions relating to their areas of responsibility.
We delegate tasks with the associated competencies to our employees.
We provide targeted information and promote communication.
We lead with goals and measure whether they are achieved.
We understand leadership to mean the successful connection between corporate goals and employee satisfaction.
We give our employees the opportunity to participate in the company.

Quality and innovation – our basis

We are committed to the highest quality in products and processes.
We measure "quality" by the uncompromising fulfillment of the requirements that we have agreed with our customers.
We systematically pursue continuous development and innovation.
We focus on quality and continuous improvement: for everyone, every day, in every detail.

Society, environment, communication – our commitment

We use the available resources responsibly.
We are involved in the local community and support social projects.
We work together openly, trustingly and fairly. We treat everyone with trust and respect; the safety of people is our top priority.
We actively inform our environment about what is happening in the company.

Back to the future.
100 years of metalligence.

1924

1924 Karl Arnold founds the company

His motto: “There’s no such thing as impossible” endures to this day, as does his philosophy: “Think like a craftsman, manufacture like an industrialist.”

1924-1961

Innovative right from the start

Arnold is innovative from the word go, registering 8 patents and 28 utility model applications and winning 2 silver medals for its construction of wash boilers and butchers’ kettles.

1961

Full steam ahead

Rolf Arnold, the son of the founder, forges ahead with making the company an industrial supplier.

1965

Expansion

Arnold moves to its current headquarters in Friedrichsdorf.

1979

Strong partnerships

With the interior construction for Frankfurt’s Alte Oper opera house, Arnold returns to its roots in construction.

1983

Arnold goes global

The Caracas opera house is the first major international interior construction project.

1983-1985

Technologically far ahead

Arnold upgrades the machine park with the first welding robot and a punch laser combination machine.

1988

The first brand

The brand claim “Arnold... stark in Metall!” ushers in a new era.

1991

Go East

The road east leads to Steinbach-Hallenberg, Thuringia, where Arnold establishes a production location in the former GDR in collaboration with the Diller family.

1993

Move into Thuringia

Arnold moves into the new state-of-the-art premises in Thuringia. The number of employees grows rapidly.

1998

Balloon Flower, the first

Daimler Benz commissions Arnold to produce the first “Balloon Flower” for Jeff Koons.

1999

Change of leadership

Rolf Arnold hands over the management of the company to Uwe Arnold and Dieter Stemmer.

2001

Merger of the Arnold companies to form a joint stock corporation.

2001-2007

Magnification

Production capacity and facilities continue to expand at both sites.

2008

Expectations exceeded

The project at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport becomes by far the largest foreign project to date.

2012

The first robot

The robot-assisted laser welding facility goes into operation.

2013

Generation change

A new generation on the board of directors: Ingo Stemmer and Christoph Ebert form the new board of directors together with Uwe Arnold.

2007-2015

New attitude

“If it’s simple, someone else will do it”: Arnold embarks on a process of internal reorganization and revamps its public image.

2015

The second brand

Arnold goes public with its passion! “Metalligent” becomes the company’s new watchword.

2023

Change of Management Board

Uwe Arnold is leaving the Board of Management on January 1. He hands over the baton to Christoph Ebert and Ingo Stemmer.

2024

100th anniversary

Impossible? Only if you don’t believe in it: Arnold celebrates its 100th birthday.

Press. Reports.

Press contact

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Isabell Issing
Marketing
Industriestraße 6-10
61381 Friedrichsdorf
Phone +49 6172 765-4030
Fax +49 6172 765-84030
isabell.issing@arnold.de

Press releases

District President Hilligardt visits Arnold AG

Friedrichsdorf, February 10, 2025 - On Monday, Prof. Dr. Jan Hilligardt, District President of the Darmstadt Regional Council, visited metalworking specialist Arnold AG together with representatives from his “Occupational Safety” department. CEO Boris Bachmeier welcomed the guests to the headquarters in Friedrichsdorf for a discussion on occupational safety and a tour of the Arnold production facility.

“The topic of occupational safety is extremely important to us. As a metalworking company, we bear a great deal of responsibility for our employees and the environment and therefore set high standards,” explains Bachmeier. Cooperation with the regional council as the supervisory authority makes a lot of sense, and not just in terms of avoiding accident and health risks in the workplace. The highest possible level of protection must also be guaranteed with regard to the environment, for example when cleaning waste water from paint shops. According to Bachmeier, compliance with technical, medical and social occupational safety is a top priority for Arnold AG as a manufacturing company.

Hilligardt was delighted with the detailed insights into occupational health and safety: “It was very informative to learn about the production processes and protective measures at Arnold and to talk about current issues.” He and his occupational health and safety department are concerned with cooperating with companies, ensuring compliance with regulations and maintaining a high level of occupational health and safety in his administrative district. “The safety of employees is of central importance, and the occupational health and safety department at the Darmstadt Regional Council has an important monitoring function in addition to its advisory role.”

In future, Boris Bachmeier promised that the company would continue to work very closely with the Darmstadt Regional Council and implement the occupational health and safety measures with the utmost care.

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Caption: District President Prof. Dr. Jan Hilligardt (5th from left) visited Arnold AG in Friedrichsdorf with the representatives of his occupational health and safety department Rudolf Zimmermann (3rd from left) and Mario Fantini (4th from left). Arnold board member Boris Bachmeier (2nd from right), site manager Joachim Ricker (2nd from left), works council member Mike Orzol (1st from left) and occupational safety specialist Michael Fritz (1st from right) gave the visitors an insight into production and safety at the metalworking specialist.

Arnold AG appoints a new Chairman of the Management Board

Friedrichsdorf, September 1, 2024 - The Supervisory Board of Arnold AG today appointed Boris Bachmeier to the company's Management Board with immediate effect.

"We are delighted to welcome Boris Bachmeier as the new CEO of Arnold AG," explains Uwe Arnold, Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Family businesses such as Arnold AG require a clear management structure. The family and the Supervisory Board have therefore decided to establish a sole CEO at the head of the company. "We were able to recruit Mr. Bachmeier for this role, who has the ideal qualifications and management experience for this task. In his previous positions, he has impressively demonstrated that, with his structured and integrative management style, he is in a position to take the workforce along with him through change and to develop the company professionally. We are therefore entrusting him with the task of leading Arnold AG into the second century of the company's history."

As an officer in the German Air Force, Boris Bachmeier studied economics and organizational sciences and subsequently held various management positions. In 2010, after completing an Executive MBA (EMBA) at the European School of Business in Reutlingen, he switched to the industrial sector. Here he held positions as Managing Director in mechanical and plant engineering and the automotive sector.

With over 20 years of management experience, the 44-year-old comes across as an authentic and down-to-earth personality with a high degree of empathy for the workforce and extensive knowledge in the various areas of the company.

"Arnold AG is a traditional, but also very innovative company that has established itself as a reliable specialist for products made of and with metal in various markets for many years. We will continuously and sustainably expand this market position through operational excellence and technological leadership. The focus of all activities on the customer is a matter of course. I am delighted to be part of this company and look forward to working with the workforce, the Supervisory Board and the Arnold family in a spirit of trust," says Boris Bachmeier.

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Press reports about Arnold

ARTS21 05/2023: How art affects society – public art all-rounder Arnold networks expert know-how
Art journalist Edda Rössler visited Arnold at the Public Art Symposium 2023 in Frankfurt.

FAZ 05/2023: From the baggage scanner to the Koons sculpture
Journalist Barbara Schäder (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) in an interview with the two board members of Arnold AG.

LOGISTIK HEUTE 03/2021: Find instead of search
About the use of the localization system "Track & Trace", with which Arnold creates a high level of transparency in its production.

INSUEDTHUERINGEN 02/2020: Successful advertising on our own behalf
Erik Hande from “insuedthueringen” reports on the “Open Training Workshop Day” at Arnold AG in Steinbach-Hallenberg.

HANDELSBLATT 03/2018: The metal specialist with a penchant for art
Katrin Terpitz reports in the Handelsblatt on the Art division of Arnold AG.

FAZ 01/2017: Here, everyone needs to know what metal smells like
A report by Thorsten Winter about Arnold AG.

INSUEDTHUERINGEN 12/2016: Arnold AG supports youth work
Erik Hande from “insuedthueringen” reports on Arnold AG.

FAZ 07/2015: A radiant future in Friedrichsdorf
Click here to read the article by editor Manfred Köhler on Arnold’s takeover of Nordlicht GmbH.

TRUMPF EXPRESS 06/2014: If it’s simple, someone else will do it
The editors of Express in conversation with Uwe Arnold on the metal experts’ passion for their work and the day-to-day challenges they deal with.

FAZ 06/2012: The entrepreneur behind the artist Koons
Mona Jäger reports on the collaboration between the artist Jeff Koons and Arnold AG.

WIRTSCHAFT ONLINE 02/2011: Success through innovation
The RKW Hessen Annual Conference 2023 was held under the motto “With innovations to success”. Guest speaker Prof. Dr. Bernd Kriegesmann emphasized the central role of innovations for the strategic orientation of companies.

LACKIERERBLATT 01/2011: On behalf of the artist
Arnold AG from Thuringia manufactures and paints world-famous works of art.

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