Alu Menziken Group

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Alu Menziken Group
legal form Corporation
founding 1897
Seat Reinach AG and Menziken , Switzerland ;
Aargau , Switzerland ;
Ranshofen , Upper Austria
management Ingolf Planer
(Chairman of the Board of Directors, CEO);
Benedikt Wolfram (CFO);
Alice Godderidge (CSO)
Number of employees 500 (as of January 2019)
sales 100 million CHF (2016)
Branch Metal processing
Website www.alu-menziken.com

Former company headquarters in Menziken ( Switzerland )

The Alu Menziken Group is a Swiss metal processing group with headquarters in Reinach AG in Switzerland. Her specialty is the manufacture of semi-finished products and components made of aluminum . The Alu Menziken Group consists of Alu Menziken Extrusion AG (production sites in Reinach and Menziken in Aargau), Alu Menziken Euromotive GmbH in Ranshofen, Upper Austria and Alu Menziken SRL in Satu Mare, Romania. Alu Menziken is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Swiss industrial group Montana Tech Components.

Through various takeovers, Alu Menziken advanced to become one of the largest aluminum manufacturers in Switzerland. Today the Alu Menziken Group serves the following strategic business areas: Aerospace , Automotive , Pneumatics , Construction and Industrial Components .

Another plant was opened in Romania at the beginning of November 2018. Investments of around 50 million euros were made for this. The new plant in Romania will create around 200 jobs.

history

The company was founded in Fleurier in 1897 by Heinrich Alfred Gautschi from Menziken under the name Gautschi & Jequier . The company's headquarters were relocated to Gontenschwil in 1903 and to Menziken in 1908. From 1946 to 1993 the company was called Aluminum AG Menziken . In 1995, the Alu Menziken Group, which had meanwhile been organized into a group through various acquisitions, among other things, divided its activities into the three sectors of semi-finished products, castings and aircraft material.

In 1998 the sand casting team in Gontenschwil succeeded in casting the heaviest aluminum casting in the world with a weight of 7.3 tons. The performance finds entry in the Guinness Book of Records.

After a strategic realignment, Alu Menziken began to gradually sell business areas that were no longer part of the core business at the end of 2002. Initially, Almatec AG, which specializes in the manufacture of housing systems, was sold. In 2004, Alu Menziken withdrew from the die casting business and sold its subsidiary Injecta Druckguss AG, which had 250 employees, to a group of private investors. In 2005, the subsidiary Alu Menziken Metall Service Menziken AG, which specializes in metal service, was sold to Debrunner Koenig Holding .

At the beginning of July 2007, the owner family Gautschi announced the sale of the Alu Menziken Group to the newly established industrial group Montana Tech Components . In the course of the integration, the former subsidiary Universal Alloy Corp. (UAC) separated from the Alu Menziken Group. The two companies, which continue to operate independently on the market, now form the Aerospace & Industrial Components business unit of Montana Tech Components, which, with a global market share of 40 percent, is the market leader for light and medium-sized and global number two for heavy aluminum profiles for the aerospace industry.

Alu Menziken Extrusion AG

Alu Menziken Extrusion AG is a leading global manufacturer of aluminum profiles and complex extruded products that meet the highest requirements in terms of alloy properties, tolerances and surfaces. The company, based in Reinach / AG, Switzerland, employs 220 people and in 2013 generated sales of EUR 75 million. AME is a 100% subsidiary of the Montana Tech Components  AG industrial group . Its best-known customers include Bosch , Hilti , SMC , Pilatus , Premium Aerotec and Roche .

Alu Menziken Euromotive GmbH

Alu Menziken Euromotive GmbH offers the full range from development to final assembly of lightweight components in the automotive and aviation sectors. The company Alu Menziken Euromotive GmbH was founded in November 2014 as a 100% subsidiary of Alu Menziken Extrusion AG and has 130 employees. Since the takeover, sales have increased by a fifth (from 20 to 25 million euros). In the automotive sector, crash management systems, seat structures, rollover protection systems and battery boxes for premium cars, sports cars and e-mobility are developed and manufactured. In the aviation sector, Alu Menziken has specialized in aircraft seat structures, components for aircraft interiors and components for jet engines. The export quota is around 80 percent. The best-known customers include Recaro Aircraft Seating , Daimler , BMW , Bentley Porsche, KTM , Audi , Rolls-Royce , Aston Martin and FACC .

Awards

At the 8th Global Supplier Conference 2016, Recaro Aircraft Seating honored Alu Menziken Euromotive GmbH with a “Supplier of the Year Award” for its capacity expansion and exemplary cooperation.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alu Menziken sells skyscraper to Kurt Weber AG . In: az Aargauer Zeitung . September 7, 2011 ( aargauerzeitung.ch [accessed September 7, 2011]).
  2. ↑ a b aluminum parts from Braunau for Porsche BMW and Co Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, October 27, 2016
  3. ↑ Alu Menziken Euromotive www.ame.euromotive.com
  4. ^ Investor Tojner buys company in Ranshofen derstandard.at, November 10, 2014
  5. ↑ Recaro awards four supplier awards aerosieger.de, June 2016