JOST – from small workshop to global player

JOST’s history began as a typical post-war success story. In the early 1950s, Neu-Isenburg is home to two real movers and shakers – Hans Breuer and Joseph Steingass. Inspired by the semi-trailer trucks they had seen the American troops use in Frankfurt, they began developing fifth wheel couplings made of cast steel. They filed a patent for their invention in 1955 and received general type approval in 1960.