ABB Stotz contact
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1891 (Stotz und Cie. Elektrizitätsgesellschaft mbH by Hugo Stotz in Mannheim ), 1912 sold to BBC, |
| Seat | Heidelberg , Germany |
| management | Uwe Laudenklos ( Chair ) |
| Number of employees | 1405 (2013) |
| sales | around EUR 487 million (2013) |
| Branch | Energy and automation technology |
| Website | www.abb.de/stotz-kontakt |
ABB Stotz-Kontakt GmbH develops and manufactures products for the electrical equipment and automation of buildings, machines and systems. The company is based in Heidelberg . Around 1405 employees generate sales of around 487 million euros (as of 2013). ABB Stotz-Kontakt is a company of the German ABB .
Business areas
The company produces and sells switching and control technology, circuit breakers, switches and switchgear accessories, installation devices, building systems and connection technology.
history
In 1891 the company Moyé and Stotz, electr. Installations established in Mannheim .
In the first few years of the new business, the boss put a neon sign with his name on it as traveling letters that lit up one after the other on his house - allegedly the first neon sign of its kind in Germany. Stotz built the circuit himself. In 1896 the partner Moyé left the company and the company was renamed Stotz und Cie. Elektrizitätsgesellschaft mbH renamed. In 1912 there were branches in Freiburg im Breisgau , Karlsruhe , Worms , Schlettstadt , Heidelberg , Pirmasens , Wiesloch , Stuttgart and Kaiserslautern . 300 fitters were employed. After the installation departments were sold to Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC), the company in Stotz and Cie. GmbH, factory of electrical special equipment renamed. A production building was built in Mannheim-Neckarau .
In 1918 Stotz and Cie. a subsidiary of the BBC. In 1923 the development of automatic switches for protection against overload and short circuit ( automatic circuit breakers ) began. In 1928 the production of the automatic circuit breaker S 11 was started in the type that was retained until 1959. 1930 saw the start of the manufacture of auxiliary shooters, which was the first device in what would later become the apparatus engineering department. Stotz GmbH and Kontakt AG, Frankfurt am Main , merged in 1930 to form Stotz-Kontakt GmbH and in 1935 manufactured explosion-proof devices.
In 1939 the warehouse in Neckarau burned down and at that time around 900 people were employed. After the decision to build a new factory in Heidelberg, an aircraft equipment factory was built in Eberbach as a branch in 1940 . In 1943 the assembly of circuit breakers, rotary and toggle switches and sockets began in Heidelberg. The assembly of the apparatus construction area also moved after the destruction of the Mannheim plant during an air raid. During the Second World War , prisoners from the Buchenwald concentration camp were used as slave labor in production for several months . The German ABB Asea Brown Boveri AG, Mannheim participated in the establishment of the foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” .
Production of the S 111 automatic screwdriver started in 1948. In 1960, the Rheinhausen plant with 73 employees started operations. The opening of the plant followed in 1964 in Waibstadt, where final assembly work was carried out until 1975. Mechanized manufacturing facilities for parts manufacturing and assembly were introduced in 1968. After acquiring the electrical sector from Busch-Jaeger , Dürener Metallwerke AG, Lüdenscheid , Busch-Jaeger Elektro GmbH was founded in 1969. In 1974 the security technology department was set up. In the same year, a new plant for equipment construction, equipment construction with training workshop and prototype construction was built in Eppelheim .
In 1978 the electronic devices division was taken over, four years later it was integrated into the automation technology division. In 1981 the finished goods warehouse was concentrated in the Walldorf goods distribution center.
In 1983 the SIGMA-i-BUS system was developed in the Walldorf plant and manufactured for the first time. In 1985 the first mechanized production line for the Adam miniature circuit breaker was put into operation; In 1988 the production of the types Eva and 1991 Lukas followed .
One year after the founding of Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) in 1988, the explosion-proof equipment division was assigned to ABB CEAG GmbH, the switchgear division (formerly apparatus engineering) to ABB Schalt- und Steuerungstechnik GmbH and the safety engineering division to ABB Installations GmbH.
In 1997, the security technology division was integrated , and a year later the alarm monitoring sensors were connected to the EIB via the zone terminal. In 1999 the production of the intruder alarm center (L208) with an optional EIB interface was started. In 2001 the fieldbus connector FieldBusPlug was presented and in 2002 the wireless proximity switch .
In 2005, the production facility moved from Eppelheim to a new building on the company's own premises in Pfaffengrund. In the summer of 2008, the industrial-technical and commercial areas of the ABB Training Center (ATC) followed. The reason for this was the connection to a production site, an increase in the quality of the training through practical relevance as well as the support of trainees and technical and business students of the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University under one roof. ABB is thus offering both internal training positions at the Heidelberg location as well as in the joint training of other companies.
The company is u. a. Advisory board in the professional association for installation devices and systems in the ZVEI , member of the VDMA control engineering working group, the EtherCAT Technology Group and the KNX Association. ABB Stotz-Kontakt GmbH is a member of the trade association for industrial companies in Baden .
Group structure
ABB Beteiligungs-Management GmbH, Mannheim, is the sole shareholder of ABB Stotz-Kontakt GmbH.
ABB Stotz-Kontakt has the following subsidiaries (as of 2007):
- ABB Stotz-Kontakt Eléctrica Lda., Porto (Portugal), 100%
- ABB Stotz-Kontakt SA, Getafe (Spain), 100%
- ABB Stotz-Kontakt / Striebel & John Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH, Heidelberg, 100%
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c ABB Stotz contact company with limited liability , Hoppenstedt company number: 316796275, Hoppenstedt company database
- ↑ Independent Expert Commission Switzerland - Second World War: Switzerland, National Socialism and the Second World War (PDF; 1.8 MB) p. 325
- ^ Stiftungsinitiative.de: list of members ( memento of March 2, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) , as of November 17, 2000
- ↑ Member company of the wvib
- ↑ RECIPE about a resolution by the shareholder of ABB Stotz-Kontakt GmbH, Heidelberg in a written procedure , December 3, 2007, Electronic Federal Gazette