FOR OVER 60 YEARS:
A SUCCESSFUL COMPANY HISTORY

From hardware dealer to the leading manufacturer of high purity stainless steel tube systems

For more than 60 years our family-run company has stood for top quality, excellent service, innovative solutions and above all: Trust.

Over 750 exceptionally well-trained and motivated employees, whose expertise and reliability form the basis for the success of the Dockweiler Group, safeguard the interests of our customers.

Dockweiler AG, now led by third-party managers, belongs to the Dockweiler Group, a second-generation family holding company whose company founder, Klaus-Dieter Fiebig, recognized the relevance of high purity surfaces in the production of high-performance memory chips and processors back in the 1970s, laying the foundation for the sustained technical success of present day Dockweiler AG.

With our innovative products and customer solutions we have contributed to and influenced industrial development trends.

Behind the company, we as a family stand for innovation with tradition, commitment and fairness with the knowledge that the satisfaction of our customers, suppliers and employees is the core value of our company.

We three daughters, Susanna Fiebig, Sonja Wilke and Julia Neth, will continue to take the company into the future, using our father's principles and values as a guide.

History

At the beginning of the 1970s Klaus-Dieter Fiebig launched the business with high purity stainless steel tubes and fittings. Very early on he recognized the importance of high purity surface qualities for the beginning computer age. With a willingness to take risks and a pioneering spirit, the course for today's company development was set early on.

In the World Dockweiler
2024

Establishment of our new Advanced Lithography business unit with the target of staying one step ahead of the ever-increasing demands of the semiconductor market.

2023

Expansion of electropolishing capacities at our subsidiary Calamo AB in Sweden.

2023

Expansion of the administration and production buildings as well as photovoltaic installations at Dockweiler AG.

Erweiterung des Verwaltungsgebäudes der Dockweiler AG in Neustadt-Glewe
2023

Dockweiler establishes subsidiary in the USA and India.

2022

Takeover and integration of Dockweiler Industrial Automation GmbH.

2020

Dockweiler opens a subsidiary in China.

2019

Company founder Klaus-Dieter Fiebig and his daughter Sonja Wilke jointly manage the holding company.

2017

For the third time running, Dockweiler apprentices receive "Trainee of the Year" award from the Schwerin Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

2016

Dockweiler is Europe’s first and only ASME BPE certified manufacturer of tubes and fittings. Dockweiler is the only manufacturer in the world to offer not only fittings and tubes, but also other materials according to ASME BPE, Part MM, e.g. AL-6XN and 1.4435.

2015

Dockweiler Japan opens in Japan.

2014

Dockweiler Middle-East opens in Israel.

2013

Commissioning of in-house cleanroom, class 4 + 6.

2012

Dockweiler Asia opens in Thailand. This is the delivery headquarters for Asia concentrating sales there. At the same time, a production facility with an electropolishing plant for pharmaceutical products is built.                                          

2011

Klaus-Dieter Fiebig steps down as Chairman, reorganizes to external management and transfers his majority share in the company to his three daughters. This ensures transition of the family business to the next generation. He remains however Managing Director of Dockweiler Holding.

2008

Dockweiler expands its electropolishing capacities in Sweden, extending its range of products and services.

2006

Dockweiler becomes the largest partner in the planning and construction of a factory in Thailand for tube components, primarily for the pharmaceutical industry.

2002

Dockweiler launches its ASME-BPE program.

2000

Dockweiler becomes a certified A-supplier for custom-made products made of tubes and tube components.  Its highly developed orbital welding technology using special machines can produce the most difficult geometries.

1996

Dockweiler develops "bubblers", complex transport and supply vessels made of stainless steel, used to transport organometallic compounds such as TBAs for the CVD process and can be directly coupled to the tool.

1994

Dockweiler BV opens in the Netherlands.

1991

Dockweiler recognizes the stricter requirements of the pharmaceutical industry and develops mechanically polished as well as electropolished tube systems for safe and economical plant engineering in pharmaceutics.

1990

Dockweiler opens a subsidiary in Great Britain.

1989

Dockweiler opens a subsidiary in Austria.

1987

First major order to supply the material for the complete media supply of a greenfield chip factory in Holland.

1983

Dockweiler recognizes the need for better surfaces and higher purity and develops the "Ultron" product in collaboration with its electropolishing partner. Electropolished, topographically flattened, high purity. A milestone in the company history.

1978

First major order for the new "Dockweiler TCC” product for a semiconductor factory.

1975

Dockweiler becomes the representative for high-quality seamless stainless steel tubes and purifies them using special cleaning processes.

1973

Klaus-Dieter Fiebig takes over from Bruno Dockweiler. 

1961

At the age of 16, Klaus-Dieter Fiebig starts his apprenticeship as a hardware dealer with Bruno Dockweiler.

1955

Bruno Dockweiler founds a hardware store in Hamburg.