We're working on the future of transport.
And we've been doing so since 1878.
"With pioneering new technologies, we will make lasting changes to the transport of tomorrow." Creating pioneering technology was exactly what Johann Georg Doll, who founded our company back in 1878, set out to do. Today – over 140 years later – we know that he was right.
2023
DOLL® presents the new 7-inch DOLL control® colour display. The trailer management system combines maximum user-friendliness and driver support with the most advanced technology.
2022
Presentation of the DOLL tera® pendular axle in the civil sector at bauma 2022 in Munich
Presentation of the first 100% emission-free highloader superstructure
Renaming of the competence center for timber transport vehicles from DOLL® Sachsen GmbH to DOLL TimTech GmbH with its own managing directors.
Opening of the delivery hall in Mildenau
Foundation of the subcompany DOLL Airport Equipment GmbH
2021
DOLL® invests almost EUR 4 million in expanding its sites. The company also constructs a new centre for surface coating in Oppenau and a dispatch hall with customer area in Mildenau.
2021
Foundation of the subcompany DOLL France.
2020
With launching the new low loader X and it's intelligent, high-performance trailer management system DOLL connect®, DOLL® is pioneering a new, digital era.
2019
DOLL® expands the Mildenau site further and designates the plant in Saxony a competence centre for timber transport vehicles. DOLL® sets new records with incoming orders totalling in EUR 110 million and sales of just under EUR 95 million in 2019.
2018
The company is headed up by Markus Ehl (CEO) and Renato Ramella (CSO). DOLL® introduces the innovative DOLL connect® trailer management system as an extension of DOLL tronic® at the IAA in Hanover. In the airport equipment sector, DOLL® wins a contract to produce approximately 160 vehicles for airline caterer DO & CO; the largest individual contract in the company's history.
2014
DOLL® introduces the intelligent CAN bus system DOLL tronic® at the IAA. Just four years after the market launch of the DOLL panther®, the company cements its reputation as an innovation leader in the heavy haulage segment with this intelligent operating and control system.
2013
DOLL® produces the first catering highloader for the US market for its customer DO & CO New York Catering Inc. In the same year, the ecat – the world's first fully electric highloader in the 18 t weight category – is introduced at inter airport in Munich.
2012
DOLL® builds the first lightweight timber transport vehicles – such as the LOGO 21 dual-axle semi-trailer.
2011
Innovations come in quick succession: DOLL® develops the ratioplus system, combining the advantages of self-steering and positive steering technology in one carefully designed control system.
2010
DOLL® unveils the innovative DOLL panther® independent wheel suspension to the public for the first time at bauma in Munich. From this moment on, panther® axle technology changes the heavy haulage market for good.
2009
In addition to a new parts manufacture hall, DOLL® opens DOLL® Sachsen GmbH in Mildenau. Part of the DOLL® product range is manufactured on this site.
2006
DOLL® commissions a new final assembly hall incorporating a total of five production lines.
1999
Brunhilde Rauscher-Doll, the company founder's great-granddaughter, joins the executive management team in 1999.
1998
The first pair of catering lifting vehicles is delivered to Gate Gourmet in 1998. The Gate Group continues to use DOLL® vehicles in its global operations to this day.
1995
DOLL® achieves its initial DIN EN ISO 9001 certification. DOLL® continues to comply with this quality management standard today.
1985
During the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, the company continually expands its product portfolio for special-purpose vehicles. In 1985, the various activities are divided into three operational divisions: Timber Transport, Heavy Haulage and Mobile Systems.
1978
The company centenary is celebrated with all DOLL® employees, customers and suppliers.
1948
With Emil, Heinrich and Friedrich Doll, the third generation of the family joins the company in 1948. The company grows steadily under their leadership and starts exporting timber transport vehicles to Africa in the 1950s. These export activities lay the foundations for today's global network of partners and service workshops.
1910
Emil Doll becomes the second generation of the family to take over the company. With the rapid increase in motorisation during the 1920s, he recognises the signs of the times and produces superstructures and trailers for the newly developed motorised commercial vehicles.
1878
Johann Georg Doll founds a cartwright business in Oppenau in 1878. The "Doll forge" initially produces a wide range of coaches. The company's repertoire also extends to forestry equipment such as axes and slashers.
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