AKG group
| AKG Thermotechnik International
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1919 |
| Seat |
Hofgeismar , Germany
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| management |
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| Number of employees | 2,500 |
| sales | 285 million euros |
| Branch | Thermotechnology |
| Website | www.akg-gruppe.de |
| As of December 31, 2017 | |
The AKG Group is a globally active German group of companies that manufactures thermotechnical products ( coolers and heat exchangers for use in automobiles, commercial vehicles, diesel and gas engines, rail vehicles, construction and agricultural machinery, compressors , refrigeration dryers , flow brakes , in power electronics and the Hydraulics ).
The group has production sites in Brazil , the People's Republic of China , Germany , England , France , India , Japan , Latvia , Turkey and the USA . The headquarters of the AKG Group is Hofgeismar in the Kassel district in Hesse .
The high-performance coolers and heat exchangers produced by the AKG Group are used in locomotives , high-speed trains , in agricultural, construction and forestry machines, in industrial plants and large engines, in switch cabinets , medical devices, condensers and tumble dryers.
The cooling systems of the AKG Group are installed in automobiles in the luxury segment such as Bentley , Porsche and Ferrari . Among other things, AKG also produces intercoolers for the Mercedes-Benz C-Class . Compact cooling systems from the AKG Group were also installed in the Airbus A380 .
The company AKG emerged from the Autokühler Gesellschaft founded in Dortmund in 1919 , which manufactured coolers in small series and carried out repairs. Today, with over 2,500 employees, AKG manufactures more than 2.5 million heat exchangers per year in 12 production sites around the world.
structure
- AKG Thermotechnik International
- Hofgeismar car cooler
- AKG Appenweier (location was closed on December 31, 2017)
- AKG Thermotechnik Hofgeismar
- AKG Thermotechnik Dortmund
- AKG Thermotechnik Uslar
- AKG of America
- AKG Midwest
- AKG France
- AKG UK Limited
- AKG Therm. Systems Taicang
- AKG Thermal Systems, Turkey
- AKG Thermotechnology Latvia
- AKG India
- AKG Japan
- AKG Korea
literature
- José Pinto: Working in a confined space: AKG cooling systems in demand worldwide , Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine from May 2, 2013 ( online version )
- José Pinto: Group is growing internationally - AKG is restructuring and has to rationalize , Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine from April 30, 2013 ( online version )
- Michael Rieß: Remuneration regulation affects 800 out of 1000 employees - Long introduced in Uslar - New tariffs: Unrest at AKG , Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine from February 7, 2011 ( online version )
- José Pinto: Short-time working has been greatly reduced - sales and earnings should increase noticeably - AKG is working out of the crisis , Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine from March 25, 2010
- José Pinto: AKG heat exchangers are widespread - Thermotechnology celebrates its 25th anniversary today - The misunderstood heavy workers , Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine from April 10, 2010 ( online version )
- Helmut Steuer: "Extended workbench" low wages beat tax advantages , Handelsblatt dated April 7, 2005 ( online version )
- José Pinto, The refrigeration professionals are running smoothly - AKG main plant in Hofgeismar is busy - Employment situation stable , Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine 2005 ( online version ( Memento from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); PDF; 528 kB)
- Finn Mayer Kuckuck: Plagiarism hinders medium-sized companies in China , Handelsblatt, March 23, 2004 ( online version )
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.akg-gruppe.de/index.php?id=113
- ↑ a b c d Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine dated May 2, 2013, working in a confined space: AKG cooling systems in demand worldwide .
- ↑ a b Handelsblatt dated April 7, 2005 "Extended workbench" Low wage suggests tax advantage , additional text.
- ↑ a b Name of the management , homepage AKG AKG Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH.
- ↑ The AKG group of companies
- ↑ Federal Gazette : Annual financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014
- ↑ AKG group in Russia . Retrieved August 28, 2013.
- ↑ 75 employees affected: car cooler in Appenweier closes . In: News of the Ortenau - Offenburger Tageblatt . ( bo.de [accessed on December 26, 2016]).