Salinen Austria
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1997 |
| Seat | Ebensee am Traunsee, Upper Austria |
| management | Peter Untersperger, CEO Kurt Thomanek, CTO |
| Number of employees | 415 |
| sales | 117,300,000 EUR (as of fiscal year 2012/13) |
| Branch | Mining, manufacturing and refining of salt |
| Website | www.salinen.com |
The Salinen Austria AG is an Austrian company that the rock salt has a corporate goal. It was privatized in 1997 and is now part of the Androsch Group and Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich .
history
Although the company was only founded in its current form in 1997, its origins go back to salt mining in Austria in the 15th and 16th centuries. So ownership rights were continuously granted by Emperor Friedrich III. and Maximilian bought to get a salt monopoly in Austria. The salt pans in Bad Aussee , Hallstatt and Hall in Tirol retained their special status, but ultimately also belonged to this monopoly with the state as the owner.
The salt stores in Bad Ischl , which were only discovered in the 16th century, were also dismantled by Aussee . A first brewing pan was put into operation in Ischl in 1571, and more in Ebensee between 1604 and 1607.
The princely chamber not only wanted to bring production, but also the salt trade under its control. For this purpose, their own Aryan salt offices and camps were set up. Trading was not withdrawn until the first half of the 19th century and private trading was allowed again.
At the beginning of the 20th century there were the five mining companies in Altaussee , Bad Ischl, Hallstatt , Hallein and Hall in Tirol to Austria with around 2300 employees. They were subordinate to the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Finance.
Between the two world wars, the workforce was reduced to 1,400 due to the loss of large parts of the market. In 1925 the Austrian Saltworks launched its own general management .
Under National Socialism, the company was called Alpenländische Salinen , where Emmerich Pöchmüller was general director from 1942 to 1945 , and a place of recovery for cultural assets was set up in the Altaussee salt mine .
Even after the Second World War , the workforce was further reduced through rationalization, down to 600 in 1979. The brewing huts in Hallstatt and Bad Ischl, which were closed during the war, were reactivated again until they were finally closed in 1965. The mining operations were also reduced.
In 1979 the state-owned company was converted into a stock corporation, but all shares remained in state ownership. It was not until 1997 that the company was 100% privatized, with the current owners acting as buyers. This year Salinen Austria had a market share of around 95% with table salt in the food trade.
organization
Corporate purpose
According to Austrian mining law , “ rock salt and all other salts that occur with it ” are federal , i.e. they belong to the Republic of Austria , and are therefore exempt from land ownership as well as mountain freedom . This is regulated in Section 3, Paragraph 1, Item 1 of the Mineral Raw Materials Act (MinroG). Salinen Austria is the institution that exercises this monopoly on behalf of the republic.
Ownership
Today it is owned 100% by Österreichische Salinen Aktiengesellschaft , the main owners of which are 43.75% of the former Finance Minister Hannes Androsch (2.5% he himself and 41.25% through AIC Androsch International Management Consulting his private foundation), as well as 41.25 percent is Invest Holding GmbH ( 100 percent owned by Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich via Privatbank AG ). 10% are owned by the workforce ( Salinen-Arbeiter private foundation ).
Salinen Austria Group
In addition to the Austrian production facilities, the Salinen Austria Group also has other sales facilities in Belgrade , Budapest , Bucharest , Ljubljana , Milan , Prague , Prešov and Varaždin .
activities
The company's objective is the “extraction and processing of salt and brine, the production of salt derivatives as well as domestic sales, import and export. In addition, guided tours and visits to the mining and salt works for a fee. "
The largest salt mining site is the Altaussee salt mine .
In addition to the main business, the company operates in tourism . So are mines in Hallein , Hallstatt and Altaussee operated by the Salinas ( salt mines ) . Salinen Austria is also involved in the Dachstein ice caves . In addition, numerous properties are managed, including historically and architecturally significant buildings.
Products
Evaporated salts are produced from the degraded sodium chloride salts for a wide variety of purposes:
- salt
- Nitrite curing salt for meat preservation
- Industrial salt for many purposes in further processing, such as for cleaning agents and for water softening
- Pharmaceutical salt for the manufacture of medicines in its purest form
- Cattle salt
- De-icing salt
- Industrial salt for glass, chlorine or caustic soda production
- Salt by-product: Potassium sulphate used in fertilizer manufacture
Web links
- Website of the Salinen Austria
- Salt worlds
- Entry on Österreichische Salinen AG in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Austrian saltworks in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- Franz Mathis: Big Business in Austria. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-53771-7 , p. 247 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
- ↑ Peter Untersperger: No fiber flatterer report in Nachrichten.AT from June 24, 2017, accessed on December 23, 2017
- ^ Salinen AG: Entry into the German market ( Memento from January 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) in the Wirtschaftsblatt from March 28, 1997, accessed on May 9, 2011.
- ↑ a b Firmenabc.at: Salinen Austria Aktiengesellschaft ; Retrieved May 8, 2011
- ^ Firmenabc.at: Österreichische Salinen Aktiengesellschaft ; Retrieved May 8, 2011
- ↑ Firmenabc.at: Invest Holding GmbH ; Retrieved May 9, 2011
- ^ Salinen Austria: European player of the salt industry , on european business network , accessed on May 8, 2011.