ARBED
ARBED ( acronym for Aciéries Réunies de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange , German "United Steelworks Burbach-Eich-Dudelange") was a Luxembourg steel company.
The acronym stands for the following places:
- Burbach , a district of Saarbrücken
- Eich , today a suburb in Luxembourg City
- Dudelange , a city in the south of Luxembourg.
history
The company was founded in 1911 through a merger, the history of the then merged companies goes back to 1882. Since 1982, this has also included Arbed Saarstahl GmbH in Völklingen and its predecessors Völklinger Hütte , Burbacher Hütte and Neunkircher Eisenwerk . In 1992 Arbed had also bought the Maxhütte (Unterwellenborn) .
In order to guarantee the supply of coke required for steel production, ARBED signed an interest agreement in 1913 with the Eschweiler Mining Association (EBV). The close cooperation between ARBED and EBV only ended with the takeover of the EBV-Zeche Westfalen in Ahlen by Ruhrkohle AG in 1993.
During the Second World War , the group used several hundred forced laborers and prisoners of war from the Soviet Union, France, Belgium, Poland and Italy with the forced labor camp in the sheet metal rolling mill in Burbach.
In 2002 the group merged with Aceralia and Usinor to form Arcelor , which has now been merged into ArcelorMittal .
Today the name ARBED exists z. B. continued at ARBED Spundwand GmbH in Germany. Their popularity is the reason for maintaining the ARBED brand on the German market for sheet piling profiles .
In 2011 the Luxembourg National Archives presented - on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the creation of Arbed, the establishment of the community of interests between the Hauts-Fourneaux et Aciéries de Rümelingen - St. Ingbert (German: blast furnaces and steelworks / steelworks of ...) and the German- Luxembourgish mining and steel company from Differdange as well as the inauguration of the Adolf-Emil-Hütte in Belval - his documentation of the last hundred years of the Luxembourg iron industry in one exhibition.
literature
- Charles Barthel: Bras de fer 1918 - 1929. Les maîtres de forges luxembourgeois, entre les débuts difficiles de l'UEBL et le Locarno sidérurgique des cartels internationaux (1918-1929) . saint-paul Luxembourg, 2006. ISBN 978-2-87996-735-6 ; also as (6.5MB; PDF) on the website of the Center d'études et de recherches européennes Robert Schuman
- dsb .: Émile Mayrisch et les dirigeants de l'Arbed entre la Belgique, la France et l'Allemagne. Rivalités et complicités 1918 - 1925, in Michel Dumoulin Ed .: Réseaux économiques et construction européenne. Peter Lang, Brussels 2004, ISBN 9052012342 , pp. 125-143
Web links
- ARBED sheet pile wall
- Early documents and newspaper articles on ARBED in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ Deportation: Forced labor in the Wadgasser area. Retrieved August 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Marc Schoentgen: "Heim ins Reich"? Retrieved August 17, 2019 .
- ↑ "Celebration route" - Le dernier siècle de la sidérurgie luxembourgeoise