Daan Bachmann

Mechanical engineering — 2019

LEHNER: website with a product catalogue

LEHNER from Westerstetten near Ulm makes 12-volt spreading technology: spreaders for winter maintenance and agriculture, plus special-purpose machines. The website is more of a tool than a business card: you find your spreader by spreading material, vehicle or application, rotate it in 3D, leaf through the brochure and end up at a dealer near you. Online since 2019; most recently I added the new POLARO C spreader.

A product catalogue for 12-volt spreading technology

LEHNER from Westerstetten near Ulm makes 12-volt spreading technology: spreaders for agriculture and winter maintenance, plus special-purpose machines, sold through dealers in Germany and Austria and through representatives abroad. That’s why the website is above all a product catalogue. Anyone looking for a spreader finds it by spreading material and working width, by vehicle or by application, and lands on a product page with everything that goes with it.

Everything about the product in one place

Every product page has its own bar with a download centre, page-flip catalogue, 3D view and used machinery market. In the download centre, every document is assigned to the right products, so the manual and spare parts list are only a few clicks away. You can flip through the brochures right on the site and rotate the machines in 3D, right there in your browser. The dealer locator shows you the nearest dealers to your location, with distance and contact details. All of this is available in German and English.

Online since 2019 and growing ever since

The concept and design are by the agency Headtrick from Illerrieden; stark.marketing built the site in 2019. Since then it has grown without a rebuild: new products almost every year and, in 2025, a major expansion with category pages including a product finder, 3D views, flip-through brochures, a video on the home page and a media library for the press. I implemented most of it, based on Headtrick’s designs. That’s how the site grows with the company, product by product.

Most recently: the POLARO C for GaLaBau

Most recently, the POLARO C was added – a new winter gritting spreader with a stainless steel hopper. It went live on 15 September 2026 at 6 am, just in time for the start of the GaLaBau trade fair in Nuremberg, where it made its debut: featuring a product page in German and English, a 3D view, a browsable brochure, downloads, accessories and mounting brackets, all linked together.

For this, I cut the 3D model’s file size almost in half without changing anything about its shape, so that it loads quickly on the go too. And I checked the QR codes in the printed brochures beforehand, so that they really do land on the right page.

Services
Development, Product catalogue, Support
Year
2019
Industry
Mechanical engineering

View live: lehner.eu

Homepage of the LEHNER website (lehner.eu)

Web design in Heidelberg

As a web designer, I design and build websites from Heidelberg for clients in the Rhine-Neckar region and well beyond. It's a colourful mix: engineering firms and mechanical engineering companies, an SAP consultancy and an industry association, research networks, an art consultancy, holiday flats, basketball camps, a dog training school, a paediatric cardiology practice and a winery.

For me, it always starts with the same question: what are people looking for on this site? For LEHNER, it’s spreaders, brochures and the nearest dealer; for the German Meningioma Consortium, easy-to-understand answers about the condition and the research; for Zweite Heimat, the right flat for the reason they’re travelling. The result is clear, calm pages, on a phone just as much as on a big screen.

On the technical side, I work with WordPress or Astro. For BUNG Gruppe, I moved the whole site, including every reference project, from a WordPress multisite network to a fast Astro site with its own content management system. Ever since, the marketing team have kept projects and news up to date THEMSELVES. Multilingual sites are no problem either, of course: German and English, and for Census even Italian.

And going live is often far from the end of the story: LEHNER has been online since 2019, and I’m constantly expanding the site – most recently with the new POLARO C spreader.

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Contact

Got a project in mind? Just drop me a line and I’ll get back to you :)

hi@daanbachmann.de

Discuss a website project

You’ll get the quote and invoice from stark.marketing GmbH, Hans-Bunte-Straße 8, 69123 Heidelberg.