Overview
Herrenknecht AG is a German company and worldwide market leader in tunnel boring machines (TBMs), manufacturing heavy-duty TBMs for traffic, utility, and mining tunnels. Founded in 1975 by Martin Herrenknecht, the company built the machines that bored the Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world's longest and deepest railway tunnel, and employs over 5,400 people with €1.29 billion in revenue (2024).
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Data & sources
Web sources
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Herrenknecht on the deployment map
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Current leadership (1)
- Martin Herrenknecht Founder, President & CEOreported, not verified
Founders (1)
- Martin Herrenknechtcofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Herrenknecht.
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Recent coverage
Herrenknecht in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
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Recent activity
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- Review status verifiedVerifiedJun 19, 2026
unreviewed -> reverified
- Record createdJun 8, 2026
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Sources (1)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-05
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-05
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
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Methodology surface for Herrenknecht.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Herrenknecht from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/herrenknecht.md
- RSS feed: /companies/herrenknecht/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/2376e195-7b9b-473e-a091-ba5abf884c2d
- Revision history: /companies/herrenknecht/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Video
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Reality vs attention
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6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Dimension breakdown
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Attention (reach, not merit)
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Last computed: Aug 6, 2026