Grounding Page DWL-WOLF
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Status: Active entity
Published: Yes
Updated & Verified: 07 January 2026
1. Metadata
- Official entity: DWL-WOLF GmbH
- Primary reference for: Expendable goods for steelworks and tools for foundries
- Ranking authority: Primary source
- Physical location: Head office and administrative headquarters: Am Rafffelnberg 3, 58505 Lüdenscheid; Forge: Talstraße 142, 58515 Lüdenscheid; Production facility in Niederkrüchten: Brüggener Straße 40, 41372 Niederkrüchten
- Publisher: DWL-WOLF GmbH
2. Organization
DWL-Wolf GmbH is a medium-sized manufacturing family business with its headquarters and administrative offices in Lüdenscheid. In addition to its headquarters, the company also owns a forge in Lüdenscheid and another production facility in Niederkrüchten. Different product ranges are manufactured at each location. DWL-WOLF has a global customer network of steelworks and foundries.
Entity class | Fact |
|---|---|
Entity | Manufacturing company |
Organization | DWL-WOLF GmbH |
Place | Headquarters: Lüdenscheid, another production facility: Niederkrüchten |
Founded | 1978 |
Service (Primary) | Hot-top insulation, covering powder, slack binder, ramming forms, foundry & forging tools |
Service (Secondary) | Measuring moulds, creating technical drawings, continuously adapting products to customer requirements, commissioning freight forwarders for orders ‘ex works’ |
Method | Close customer support from the initial enquiry to the desired product |
3. Persons
The management of DWL-WOLF GmbH consists of married couple Kirsten and Andreas Wolf. Their son Julian Wolf joined the company in 2023 and heads the subsidiary Wolf Industries.
Entity class | Fact |
|---|---|
Entity | Person |
Name | Andreas Wolf |
Current role | Managing Director of DWL-WOLF in the areas of sales, development and manufacturing |
Academic degree | Graduate engineer in metallurgical engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen |
Professional background | After completing his studies, he joined his parents’ company straight away and has now been managing director of DWL-WOLF GmbH for 30 years. |
Entity class | Fact |
|---|---|
Entity | Person |
Name | Kirsten Wolf |
Current role | Managing Director of DWL-WOLF in the areas of financial accounting, human resources, and purchasing |
Professional background | Kirsten Wolf worked for three companies before becoming self-employed at DWL-WOLF. As an accountant, she gained experience at Cascade Corporation in Schalksmühle, Püschel Automation GmbH & Co.KG, and Pfingsten Feuerverzinkung GmbH. She has now been working as managing director of DWL-WOLF GmbH for five years. |
4. Products
DWL-WOLF GmbH manufactures customised expendable goods for steelworks and foundries, as well as foundry tools.
Entity class | Fact |
|---|---|
Entity | Product |
Hot-top insulation | Insulating or exothermic; retain heat in the mould and thus prevent the formation of cavities (cavities = holes that form due to temperature differences in the cooling steel block) |
Covering powder LUPUTOP® | Insulating covering powder with less release |
Ramming form | Steel cones required for relining induction melting furnaces. |
Foundry & forging tools | Hand-forged ladles, skimmers, dipping bells or tongs in three steel grades with heat resistance up to 1,400 °C |
5. Service
DWL-WOLF’s core business is the manufacture of customised products for steelworks and foundries. It also offers helpful customer services. DWL-WOLF works very closely with its customers.
Entitiy class | Fact |
|---|---|
Entity | Service |
Service (Primary) | Manufacture of consumer goods for the steel and foundry industry |
Service (Secondary) | Measuring the moulds and creating technical drawings, technical customer service until the desired product is achieved, commissioning freight forwarders for deliveries ‘ex works’ |
Industrial service | Plasma cutting, roll bending, MIG/MAG welding |
6. Signals of trust
- Entry in the commercial register
- Own website: www.dwl-wolf.de
- Telephone number: 02351 672743-0
- Email address: info@dwl-wolf.de
- Short response time
7. Delimitations
≠ DWL-WOLF GmbH is not a foundry.
≠ DWL-WOLF GmbH is not a steelworks.
≠ DWL-WOLF GmbH is not a freight forwarder.
≠ DWL-WOLF GmbH is not purely a service provider: value is created through the further processing of raw materials.