Putzmeister
| Putzmeister Holding GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1958 |
| Seat | Aichtal , Germany |
| management | Martin Knötgen (CEO), Christian Danninger (CFO) Matthias Ruppel (COO) |
| Number of employees | 3.137 |
| sales | EUR 764 million |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.putzmeister.com |
| As of December 31, 2017 | |
Putzmeister , based in Aichtal in Baden-Württemberg, is a manufacturer of concrete pumps , truck mixer concrete pumps, mortar machines, industrial pumps , mobile conveyor belts (Telebelt), concrete spraying machines and concrete mixing plants . These machines are used for conveying, distributing, processing, temporarily storing and processing concrete, mortar and thick matter. Until 2005, the company was the largest in its sector in the world in terms of sales and number of employees. In 2012, the Chinese construction machinery manufacturer Sany took over Putzmeister.
history
In 1958 Karl Schlecht , the son of a plasterer, founded the company KS-Maschinenbau for the production of plastering machines in Bernhausen as a student at the Technical University of Stuttgart (today university ) , which was renamed in 1963 as Putzmeister Werk Maschinenfabrik . His first machine built for his father's business became the subject of his diploma thesis.
In 1965, Putzmeister launched the “Gipsomat”, the world's first automatic plastering machine. Innovative pumps for ready-mixed concrete helped the company to achieve a 45% market share in 1969. With the commissioning of today's company premises in Aichtal, the construction of truck-mounted concrete pumps with placing booms began in 1971 . The following year the twenty thousandth plastering machine was sold. At the beginning of the 1970s, subsidiaries were founded in France, Italy, Spain, England and Brazil. With the takeover of Thomsen, the former world market leader in truck-mounted concrete pumps, Putzmeister has also been active in the USA with its own production since 1982. Further branches in Japan, China, Denmark, Russia, Korea, Thailand, Turkey, India and South Africa followed.
In 1980 the company founded the "Tunnel Machines" division and in 1983 brought the Spritzbüffel onto the market. It was the largest wet spraying machine in the world.
Records
In 1986 the largest concrete pump in the world with a 62 m boom height was delivered. In 2008 the first truck-mounted concrete pump with a placing boom with a reach height of 70 m was delivered.
With a concrete pump that overcame a height difference of 310 m during the construction of the Frankfurt telecommunications tower , Putzmeister achieved a world record for the first time in 1977. This was made possible by the invention of the so-called automatic ring, which made transfer tubes and valves in concrete pumps waterproof. In the next year, this result was exceeded in the Gotthard road tunnel with a delivery height of 340 m at a distance of 600 m, in 1984 in a Spanish power station tunnel with a pumping height of 432 m and finally in 1994 at a power station in Riva del Garda in Italy with a delivery height of 532 m and a pipe length of 900 m .
Concrete pumps from Putzmeister were also used in the construction of the Burj Khalifa , the tallest structure in the world. On April 9, 2008, a new world record was achieved with a delivery height of 606 m. An even greater pumping height was not necessary, as the upper part of the Burj Khalifa was designed as a steel structure.
In February 2014, a further world record was set when a floor slab for the New Wilshire Grand Center in Los Angeles was continuously poured in with 16,200 m³ of concrete.
Other uses
A Putzmeister M58 has been in use since March 2011 in the catastrophic accidents in several reactors at the Japanese nuclear power plant in Fukushima . Compared to the fire engines initially used by the fire brigade , the boom of the concrete pump proved to be better suited to spray large quantities of cooling water precisely onto the reactor containment and into the cooling pool .
More pumps were later flown to Fukushima, which initially supported the cooling and were later used in the possible construction of a sarcophagus.
When the sarcophagus was erected after the 1986 Chernobyl reactor accident , eleven truck-mounted concrete pumps from Putzmeister were already in use, some of which were clad with lead to protect against radiation .
Key figures
In the 2017 financial year, the Putzmeister Group achieved sales of EUR 764 million with around 3,000 employees. About 10% of sales were generated in Germany, 20% in the USA and 50% in the rest of Europe.
Corporate structure
Since 2007 Putzmeister Holding GmbH has been the lead company for the subsidiaries operating in seven market fields. As the largest subsidiary, Putzmeister Concrete Pumps GmbH is responsible for the PCT Putzmeister Concrete Technology (concrete pumps) market area and is linked to the holding company by means of a tax group agreement. It emerged from Putzmeister AG, which was the main company of the Putzmeister group until 2007. Putzmeister Concrete Pumps GmbH operates u. a. In addition to the assembly plant at the headquarters in Aichtal, another plant for the basic production of high-quality steel construction components in Gründau . It has 16 Putzmeister subsidiaries around the world and other holdings.
In addition, the other companies in the PMT Putzmeister Mortar Technology market segment (Putzmeister Mörtelmaschinen GmbH, Lancy Mixjet SAS) and Putzmeister Solid Pumps GmbH in the PIT Putzmeister Industrial Technology market segment are equally ranked . Putzmeister Engineering GmbH is the development company and is therefore responsible for the worldwide construction of Putzmeister machines.
In 2011, the market technology field Putzmeister Water Technology (PWT) was sold to private investors as part of an asset deal . The Dynajet brand, which was established in 2001 , has operated as an independent company since then, Dynajet GmbH . In 2013, the company's headquarters were relocated from Aichtal to Nürtingen.
On January 30, 2012, the company in Aichtal announced that the company would be sold to the Chinese construction machinery group Sany Corp. has been sold. In 2012, Putzmeister took over Intermix GmbH, a manufacturer of truck mixers in Heimertingen, Bavaria.
Putzmeister Concrete Machinery, based in Goa, India, has been producing concrete mixing plants for the production of ready-mix concrete since 2015. This makes Putzmeister a full-range provider for the manufacture, transport and placement of concrete.
In Madrid, Spain, Putzmeister Ibérica produces tunnel spraying machines (Wetkret series), transport machines such as low-profile concrete mixing vehicles (Mixkret series) and lifting platforms (Minelift type).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2017 in the electronic Federal Gazette
- ↑ Putzmeister goes to Chinese rival Handelsblatt Online, accessed January 27, 2012
- ^ History of the Putzmeister company , accessed on May 25, 2019.
- ↑ World record funding height at Burj Dubai (Khalifa). In: Nürtinger Zeitung. April 19, 2008, p. 22.
- ↑ Patzer Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany: New record set in Los Angeles: Largest continuous concrete pumping . In: ABZ Allgemeine Bauzeitung - construction news . ( Allgemeinebauzeitung.de [accessed on December 3, 2018]).
- ^ Putzmeister pump for Japan. ( Memento from July 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Nürtinger Zeitung. March 22, 2011.
- ↑ Putzmeister pumps in Fukushima , on www.welt.de , accessed on May 18, 2019
- ↑ Putzmeister truck- mounted concrete pump cools in Fukushima ( Memento from September 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Chernobyl 1986: Putzmeister helped with pioneering work
- ↑ Company - German. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
- ^ Violent protest against Putzmeister sales Stuttgarter Nachrichten Online from January 30, 2012
Coordinates: 48 ° 37 '54 " N , 9 ° 13' 46" E