Shame about that. Every manufacturer that goes out of business means the hobby is a little bit poorer.

I'm a HUGE fan of Vollmer's 1950/60's catalogs and products.
Can't keep it dry while reading the 1961/62 catalog with their super cult 1960's signal boxes "Moosbach", "Stuttgart" and "Ost".

Maybe Simba Dickie can take over Vollmer, just as they did with...

See this 29 minutes movie about Vollmer that was broadcasted last Monday on German TV....

LINK

It's too bad that Vollmer could not have just merged with Kibri/Viessmann or Faller.

Peter

OMG!!!

I felt they were the best quality of the three German structure manufacturers (Faller and Kibri the others). Their kits went together with just a quick wipe of the liquid glue brush. Nothing went together with more accurate seams than a Vollmer kit. Very sad news.

Very, very sad...

Among all major vendors of model railroad kits, for me they are top!
The "romantic style" buildings are one of their best and well known 'trademarks'. For me personally that's a special ingredient of a model railroad layout. Vollmer buildings give it a special touch that makes me dream the same way as I did in my childwhood when looking at great layouts.

Think Pola,Kibri,....


D

It ain't over till it's over !

I think there will be some kind of 'solution' for closure mid 2014, like a takeover by Faller or Simba Dickie or...

Marco

That is kicking arse!

That's too bad!
Vollmer had a distinctive style in their products.

BR,
Juha

NOOOO!!!

Google translate.

Message of the Stuttgart office (ferpress@t-online.de) of the international railway-Press Association FERPRESS (www.ferpress.ch) of the 27.12.2013 of just:


+++ Stop model building company VOLLMER mid 2014 +++

FERPRESS exclusively learned over the Christmas holidays, is recently that the Stuttgart founded in 1946 to the middle of the year 2014 closes its doors in the Porsche road in the District of Zuffenhausen tradition company VOLLMER finally. This was confirmed by the company.

Sad news for the many model railway enthusiasts, who decorate their plants with the countless building models of the well-known Swabian family business for decades. Once again, VOLLMER at the Nuremberg Toy Fair will be late January, introduce innovations which are 2014 manufactured and delivered to the trade in the first half of.

For many industry insiders this decision which goes hand in hand with the sale of the premises, a real surprise, since VOLLMER is so far to the more stable companies the model train industry. Red numbers were avoided until recently, not least because the each timely company sizing downward changes in the model railway accessories sector.

This company's Managing Director Susanne Vollmer at the request of FERPRESS:

"We as a small medium-sized enterprise have to suffer from the general trend. We arrived in this context after much deliberation to the conclusion, that it is better to stop in time and maps and to no longer rely on an uncertain future of the company. This would have been unfair ultimately also to the remaining employees. I hope this very, that will succeed with our help, all in the next few months elsewhere to accommodate them."

SWR television was still on Monday of this week a watchable half hour report titled
Mini worlds - a family operation for the construction of the model
VOLLMER broadcast over the previous success of the family business,
to find remains in the ARD/SWR library via [www.ardmediathek.de]

The company Vollmer GmbH & Co.KG in the Internet: [vollmer-online.de]

I don't know if it has anything to do with the upcoming closing of the Vollmer company, but in the MiWuLa's webshop Vollmer is for sale with 50% discount, which makes it very affordable..... LINK

WIAD did, the ARAL Parkhaus, item# 1072B.
It is the rarest H0 building ever, as far as is known only one collector owns it (Uwe Kern in Germany).

Hi Anders,

Thank you for your kind words !!
WIAD 1072B is highly sought after and #1 on my wish list.

Marco

Hi all,




That is the first thing I think about,people losing their jobs,...

The Dirt

Hi,

There's already a thread on the very same issue:

https://www.marklin-user...-closing.aspx#post435902

I have merged these two threads now. (Marco)


All news on that seem to point to the info FERPRESS got in a suposedly exclusive way.

A few thinks that do not make much sense (at least for me):
- On one hand they report Vollmer will close by mid 2014 but on the other hand the same report states that they will be in the Nuremberg toy fair with novelties. That does not seem to match a closing plan...
- Coincidentally (or maybe not...) there are rumors of all sorts on possible buyers of Vollmer that go from competitors to the new owner of Märklin. On rumors and speculation the sky is the limit...

Regards,
Pedro

Edited by user 30 December 2013 10:52:22(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Clarification came sooner than I expected...

It's now officially announced in Vollmer's web site: http://vollmer-online.de/index.php

I'm so disappointed by this. Vollmer has always been my favourite. I am building a Vollmer kit right now, makes it seem even worse. I really enjoy how Vollmer plastics are always thick and robust, but the detail is still there. I had a number of kits in storage for years, the Vollmer kits survived the best.

However, they have given us 67 years of great products. I agree with Peter, send a message to thank them for all those years. I hope perhaps that the employees with skill and expertise will find work perhaps with another model company, perhaps influencing some of their production.

-Brandon

There is no such article in the English edition of MM 06/2013, but maybe in the German edition - the German edition is often twice the size of the English edition (which is annoying, since we pay the same amount for club membership, but only get half of the magazine).

Maybe the hobby have indeed come to the point where the old method with expensive molds has become outdated ?
Plastic injecting molding was fine from the mid 1950s until now, but the time has come for laser cut models.

...Marklin kit ref. #72891 was from Vollmer,...
...the garage for KOF too...