Vollert was formed in 1925 in Weinsburg by Hermann Vollert, initially manufacturing wells and pumps and repairing bicycles. From the 1960's Vollert started building numerous shunting and loading systems inventing in 1974 the first self propelled shunting system.
In 1999 Hans-Jörg Vollert takes over and in 2018 Vollert developed the VLEX shunting robot.