The company was founded in 1889 and is based in Herne, Germany with production facilities and subsidiaries in Brazil, the United States, China, and India; subsidiaries in France, Germany, Italy, Korea, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, and the United Kingdom; and agencies in various countries around the world. Hackforth Holding GmbH & Co. KG, through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells couplings, dampers, mounts, and drive line components. It offers flexible couplings, clutches, joint shaft couplings, drive line components, cardan shaft couplings, tail shaft couplings, and mounts for cargo vessels, work boats, passenger ships, specialized ships, pleasure boats, and auxiliary drives applications to the ship building industry, as well as for energy generation and wind energy applications. The company also provides mechanical power transmission and braking systems, such as elastic, flexible disc, hydrodynamic, rigid, flexible gear, and wind energy couplings; and back stop high speed products, low speed counter recoils (high torque), industrial clutches and brakes, electromechanical actuators, rail clamps, wind energy brakes and resilient mounts, and wind energy-monitoring and diagnostics systems for mechanical power transmission field applications in mining, oil and gas, steel and cement, paper and pulp, and green energy. In addition, it develops and manufactures measuring and monitoring systems, such as condition monitoring systems (CMS), mobile CMS, vibration recording systems for mounting on top hat rails, monitoring and diagnosis systems, air-conditioning service units, and systems engineering solutions for wind energy, shipbuilding, and processing industry applications. Further, the company manufactures various tube connections in the field of cooling/air conditioning technology for refrigeration and air conditioning (A/C), and refrigeration appliances; and provides installation, measurements, diagnosis/expert report, and vehicle A/C services.