General gold and silver refinery

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Allgemeine Gold- und Silberscheideanstalt AG
legal form AG
ISIN DE0005038509
founding January 20, 1891
Seat Pforzheim , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Franz-Josef Kron
Number of employees Domestic: 402
Europe: 754
Worldwide: 848
sales 779.3 million euros
Branch Precious metal - Affinerie
Website agosi.de

Founding share of the Allgemeine Gold- und Silber-Scheide-Anstalt in Pforzheim on March 1, 1891

The Allgemeine Gold- und Silberscheideanstalt ( Agosi for short ; formerly Allgemeine ) based in Pforzheim is one of the leading separators in Europe. The company, which today belongs to the Umicore Group, was founded in 1891. Agosi is a member of the Federal Association of Jewelry, Watches, Silverware and Related Industries .

history

The Allgemeine Gold- und Silberscheideanstalt was founded by well-known jewelry manufacturers for the recovery of precious metals from their production waste, founded on January 20, 1891 as a stock corporation and entered in the commercial register on February 20, 1891 . One of the founders was the entrepreneur and politician Andreas Odenwald . The first chairman of the supervisory board was Ferdinand Kiehnle, while Heinrich Witzenmann and Julius Maurer were on the board . In 1938 the plant for base metals was added at Pforzheim's main freight station. In the Second World War , the refinery was severely damaged and rebuilt at its current location after the end of the war. With the closure of the Degussa site in Pforzheim in 1993, Degussa's jewelry metal business was taken over and integrated. In 2003 the Belgian Umicore acquired the majority of the company's shares.

Agosi has worked with Schoene Edelmetaal BV (Amsterdam), Ögussa Ges.mbH (Vienna), Allgemeine Suisse SA (Yverdon), Umicore Precious Metals (Thailand) Ltd. (Bangkok) and Umicore Galvanotechnik GmbH in Schwäbisch Gmünd have further subsidiaries. Umicore Jewelery Materials Processing Ltd. in Foshan / China was closed in July 2012.

literature

  • Matthias Georgi, Tobias Birken, Anna Pezold: 125 years of Allgemeine Gold- und Silberscheideanstalt AG, Munich 2016.

Web links

Commons : Agosi Pforzheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Agosi is part of the anniversary. In: UJS (Uhren Juwelen Schmuck), No. 6/17, p. 28.
  2. ↑ a b Investor Relations at Allgemeine Gold- und Silberscheideanstalt AG , accessed on August 18, 2019.
  3. ↑ Pforzheimer Zeitung No. 201, August 30, 1996, page 5.