Moving to Ried

Just five years after the company was founded, the facility in Obernberg had become too small for operations. Fritz Walter and Hans Wintersteiger seized the opportunity and, in 1958, took over a metalworking shop on Froschauergasse in Ried on a life annuity basis.

Here, too, space soon became tight for the ever-larger machines: When the weather was nice, the combines were assembled outside on the street. Vacant buildings next door were also soon put to use.