Anhalt electric motor factory in Dessau

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AEM Dessau GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1993
Seat Dessau-Roßlau , Germany
management
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  • Tino Storch
Number of employees approx. 230
sales approx. € 20 million
Branch Electrical engineering
Website AEM Dessau GmbH
Status: 2014

The Anhaltische Elektromotorenwerk Dessau GmbH is a company of the metal and electrical engineering based in Dessau ( Saxony-Anhalt ). The corporate form today is a limited liability company (GmbH).

AEM submersible motor at the Hannover Messe 2013

Company profile

AEM - Anhaltische Elektromotorenwerk Dessau GmbH is a medium-sized family company with over 60 years of experience in electrical engineering. With around 230 employees, AEM is a global manufacturer of special machines for three-phase motors and three-phase generators as drive solutions and for energy generation.

Since privatization in 1993, AEM's sales have tripled and the export share is around 60%. The company delivers to more than 70 countries. AEM develops and produces customer-specific generators for hydropower and shipbuilding as well as motors for mining, conveying, construction machinery and test stands. The development, production and assembly as well as the testing of the machines take place at the Dessau site. Between 2006 and 2012, 14 million euros were invested in the modernization.

Product range

At AEM, synchronous and asynchronous three-phase motors and generators are manufactured as individual pieces or small series. The electrical and structural design of the machines is individually adapted to the customer's requirements. The machines have an output of up to 5000  kW / kVA .

In addition, the product range is supplemented by converter sets.

Areas of application

AEM electrical machines are suitable for various applications. In shipbuilding, shaft and auxiliary diesel generators are used for energy supply, as well as generators and motors for diesel-electric drive systems . AEM submersible motors are used to drive pumps on suction dredgers . The machines are also used in plant and mechanical engineering in the mining, heavy, metal and chemical industries.

Drive solutions for test stands are also offered.

history

1872 to 1933 - founding decades

Historic BAMAG wagon for transporting liquid iron

In 1872 the Berlin-Anhaltische Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft (BAMAG) was founded through a merger. With one machine factory each in Berlin and Dessau, as well as a gray and steel foundry in Dessau, BAMAG soon rose to the top group in German industry. At the beginning of the 20th century she specialized in the manufacture of components for transmissions . In 1914 the company already had 2,300 employees in Dessau. At the end of the 1920s, u. a. also the production of lifting magnets , electric cable lifts, electromagnetic clutches and brakes and similar products with an electromagnetic principle.

1933 to 1945 - World War II

From 1933, the Nazi regime began arming the Wehrmacht . The production of many industrial companies was increasingly geared towards this. Two more plants were built for this purpose in 1935 and 1940. 80% of these factories were destroyed in the air raids on Dessau on March 7, 1945.

1945 to 1989 - Reconstruction and the post-war period in the GDR

Synchronous generator SEE 1614-16 from 1954 in the Zülow hydropower plant

After the transfer of BAMAG into public ownership by the Soviet military administration in Germany on October 30, 1946, double piston hand pumps, machines for sealing tin cans, double-shoe adhesive presses and other machine tools were manufactured in Dessau with around 700 employees. In October 1948, the production of electric motors was started and operations were assigned to VVB Elektromaschinenbau . In 1949, 3,250 electric motors were manufactured in Dessau. From then on, the company operated under the name of VEM Elektromotoren- und Kompressorenwerk Dessau and from 1951 under VEB Elektromotorenwerk Dessau . In 1953 the production of self-excited synchronous generators was started . At the turn of 1989, the company had over 2500 employees, 1650 of them in the main Dessau plant.

1989 to 1993 - after the reunification

On April 5, 1990, VEB Kombinat Elektromaschinenbau , to which the Dessau electric motor factory was also assigned, was founded into the GDR's first corporation, VEM-Antriebstechnik AG Dresden . After that, the Dessau electric motor factory operated as VEM-Elektromotorenwerk Dessau GmbH from June 1990 and as VEM-Elektromotorenwerk Dessau, a branch of VEM-Antriebstechnik AG Dresden, from March 1992 .

1993 to 2000 - re-establishment

To the impending closure of the Dessau through at that time by the trust establishment managed UEM to avoid founded four former employees of the company in April 1993, the AEM-Anhalt Elektromotorenwerk Dessau GmbH and took over on 1 June 1993, the remaining 150 employees. Using an investment ruin, a completely new plant was built by 1995.

Panorama view of the Anhaltische Elektromotorenwerk Dessau GmbH

2000 until today

Today, as a special machine builder, AEM produces electric motors and generators for customers around the world. Since 2000, the range of services has been expanded to include submersible motors, test bench motors, motors with water cooling and machines with a shaft height of 800. Two new production halls, a logistics center and an environmentally friendly paint scheme were built and put into operation.

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  • Electric motor factory Dessau - history of the company, the predecessor and successor companies. CD author collective / Dr. Dohmeyer, 2000
  • 20 years of AEM - Chronicle of AEM-Anhaltische Elektromotorenwerk Dessau GmbH . AEM / Dr. Dohmeyer, 2013

Web links

Commons : Anhaltisches Elektromotorenwerk Dessau  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. AEM Dessau GmbH - Manufacturing . Website of the Anhaltische Elektromotorenwerk Dessau GmbH. Retrieved February 27, 2014.