Ardagh Group

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Ardagh Group SA

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legal form Société anonyme
ISIN LU1565283667
founding 1932
Seat Luxembourg
management Paul Coulson ( CEO )
Number of employees 23,500
sales 7.644 billion euros
Branch Container glass; Metal packaging; Beverage cans
Website www.ardaghgroup.com
As of January 16, 2019

The Ardagh Group , based in Luxembourg, is a European manufacturer of glass and metal packaging for the food and beverage industry with Irish roots. The company was founded in 1932 as the Irish Glass Bottle Company . After numerous takeovers, the Ardagh Group has a total of 109 production sites with 23,500 employees in 22 countries (as of 2017.) In 2017, group-wide sales totaled around 7.6 billion euros.

Ardagh Group's shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ARD.

Products and services

The Ardagh Group manufactures a wide range of container jars, from jam jars to beer and wine bottles to glass packaging for the pharmaceutical industry. In addition, Ardagh Glass is a specialist in the production of lightweight glass containers, which already account for over 50 percent of production.

The Ardagh Group also includes Heye International GmbH, a supplier of machines and equipment for the container glass industry based in Obernkirchen . Schaumburger Formenbau GmbH, which supplies accessories for the glass industry, is also based here.

The product range is complemented by an extensive range of services. It includes glass refinements such as all-round labeling, coatings and various decoration techniques.

history

In 2016, the Ardagh Group was awarded the bid in the takeover process for 22 plants from competitors Ball Corporation and Rexam , which they had to sell for antitrust reasons when they merged. Twelve of these plants are in Europe, eight in the USA and two in South America. The purchase price was $ 3.4 billion. With the acquisition of the 22 plants, Ardagh's annual sales rose by around $ 3 billion in one fell swoop.

Locations

Glass

Glass brand from Ardagh Glass
Ardagh Germany headquarters in Nienburg

Ardagh Glas has 35 locations for the production of glass packaging in seven countries (Germany, Denmark, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden) with around 7,000 employees. Ardagh Glass produced around 3.4 million tons of glass in 2007.

In Germany, the subsidiary Ardagh Glass GmbH with headquarters in Nienburg ( Lower Saxony ) produces at eight locations (2017) with around 2,500 employees:

  • Nienburg (Lower Saxony): The glassworks founded in 1891 was taken over by the Beck brewery in Bremen in 1924 . After the Belgian company Interbrew (today: Anheuser-Busch InBev ) bought the brewery in February 2002, the glassworks, which had 1,270 employees at the time, was sold to Rexam . In 2007, the factory was finally taken over by the Ardagh Group and today employs around 700 people (2017). Around 3.3 million glass containers for the food and beverage industry are manufactured in ten production lines every day. The European headquarters of Ardagh Glass is also located in Nienburg. The activities of all 17 locations on the European mainland are managed from here.
  • Obernkirchen (Lower Saxony): The company was founded in 1799 by Johann Conrad Storm as a glass factory. From 1842 Caspar Hermann Heye is the sole owner and the company name changes to "Hermann Heye". In 1958 the owner Elisabeth Heye sold all shares to the Baum family. After the insolvency of “Hermann Heye KG” in 2001, Ardagh took over the plant as part of an asset deal on January 1, 2003. Today, around 280 employees produce up to 3.9 million glass containers per day on four production lines. The focus is on beer, wine and champagne bottles. Two other Ardagh Glass companies are also based in Obernkirchen: Heye International is the supplier for the international glass industry. The company with around 230 employees has specialized in the manufacture of production systems. The offer includes the construction and planning of complete glassworks as well as the expansion of existing ones. Unimould (the former Schaumburger Formenbau GmbH) produces around 12,000 molds, 35,000 stamps and other accessories for the glass industry every year. The company with over 70 employees supplies glassworks all over the world.
  • Bad Münder (Lower Saxony): After the First World War , the son of a glassworks owner bought the property and built a glassworks. Production started in 1920 and stopped after a few months in early 1921 due to a lack of raw materials. On May 1, 1932, the son of a glassworks owner bought the factory again. Production started in 1933. 1932 is considered the year this glassworks was founded. After several changes in the group of shareholders, the glassworks was taken over by the Swedish PLM group in 1971. In 1999 the entire PLM group was taken over by Rexam, who in 2007 sold the packaging glass division and with it the factory in Bad Münder to Ardagh. Approx. 165 employees today manufacture container glass for beverages and food as well as glass packaging for the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Drebkau (Brandenburg): The glassworks in Drebkau goes back to the "Drebkau Greiner & Co. GmbH" founded in 1908. Beer and water glasses, bottles and technical glasses, for example for laboratories and lanterns, as well as canned glass made of white and brown glass were produced. In 1972 the name changed to "VEB container glass Drebkau". In 1913 the "Opitz, Mudrack & Co." glassworks was founded in Drebkau. Originally, technical glass was primarily produced, and from 1928 container glass as well. The company name was changed in 1946 to "VEB Glaswerk Drebkau". Both companies were merged in 1974 to "VEB Glaswerk Drebkau". The original Greiner & Co. operation was shut down in 1992 and the production facilities were dismantled. Production was relocated to the Opitz, Mudrack & Co. site. The takeover took place in 1994 by the "Lüner Glashüttenwerke" and thereby in 2003 to Rexam and subsequently in 2007 to Ardagh. Today around 140 employees produce bottles for beer, spirits and non-alcoholic beverages per day. The production volume is 1.1 million containers per day.
  • Germersheim (Rhineland-Palatinate): Approx. 295 employees manufacture beer, wine and champagne bottles in Germersheim. The production volume is 1.6 million glass containers per day. The plant was established in 1971 as a branch of the Heye-Glas smelter founded in Obernkirchen.
  • Lünen (North Rhine-Westphalia): In Lünen, a glass grinding shop was founded in 1897 . Because of the increased sales, a glass smelter was necessary in 1907 and started operations in 1908. Initially, beverage and milk bottles are produced by mouth blow molding. The grinding shop is shut down in the 1920s. In the 1930s, production was semi-automated and canning jars were added to the range. In 1942 the name was changed from "Lüner Glasmanufactur" to "Lüner Glashüttenwerke". From 1956 semi-automatic production was given up and switched to fully automatic machines. Milk bottles and preserving jars are no longer produced, instead the focus is on canned glass. In 1994 a company in Drebkau is taken over. In 2003 the family business is sold to Rexam. In March 2007, Rexam's packaging glass division was sold to the Ardagh Glass Group. Today approx. 220 employees on five production lines produce approx. 1.5 million glass containers from approx. 450 t of glass from two melting tanks.
  • Neuenhagen (Brandenburg): Various types of white glass are produced in Neuenhagen, in particular food glasses and liquor bottles. Around 140 employees manufacture over 1.1 million glass containers here every day. It was founded in 1889 as the Stralau bottle factory, which was later renamed VEB Glaswerk Stralau. The company's headquarters were in Berlin Alt Stralau. In 1995 a new glass factory was built in Neuenhagen. The plant in Berlin was closed in 1997 after an accident.
  • Schleiden (North Rhine-Westphalia): The glassworks was founded in 1949 as a branch of the Heinz-Glas company. From 1970 the factory was only a brown glass factory. On January 1st, 1989, the glassworks in Schleiden was sold to what was then "Nienburger Glas". Around 110 employees produced mainly wine, sparkling wine and champagne bottles from a melting tank on two production lines. The Schleiden plant was closed at the end of 2008 and production was relocated to Germersheim, 300 km away.
  • Wahlstedt (Schleswig-Holstein): The glass factory was founded in 1947. In 1983 VEBA AG sold the factory to Nienburger Glas. Today around 185 employees produce up to 1.5 million glass containers for non-alcoholic beverages and food every day. Only white glass is produced.

metal

The metal packaging division has 74 locations for the production of metal packaging in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and North America. Metal packaging was integrated in 2010 through the acquisition of Impress BV .

The metal division currently has nine locations in Germany (2017). Two of them (Haßloch and Hermsdorf) were added to the group in the latest wave of takeovers in 2016.

Ardagh Cuxhaven fish can factory
  • Braunschweig (Lower Saxony): There is a production site for beverage can lids in Braunschweig.
  • Cuxhaven (Lower Saxony): In Cuxhaven, cans are manufactured for the fish industry, especially drawn aluminum packaging and tear-off lids. The plant was founded in 1956.
  • Dägeling (Schleswig-Holstein): The smallest plant in Germany specializes in the production of three-part cans for the food industry.
  • Erftstadt (North Rhine-Westphalia): The former parent plant of May-Verpackungen (later US Can) manufactures cans and aerosol cans for the food industry.
  • Haßloch (Rhineland-Palatinate): Plant for cans built in 1978, which was taken over by Ball Corporation in 2016.
  • Hermsdorf (Saxony-Anhalt): A can plant that was built in 1992 and taken over by Ball Corporation in 2016.
  • Seesen (Lower Saxony): Metal packaging for lacquers, paints and building materials is produced at the traditional location.
  • Wedel (Schleswig-Holstein): The location in the west of Hamburg specializes in the production of aerosol cans for cosmetic and chemical applications.
  • Weißenthurm (Rhineland-Palatinate): The plant specializes in painting and printing sheet metal and produces canned food for the food industry as well as 5-liter beer cans.

In addition, beverage cans for all well-known beverage manufacturers are produced in the second Weißenthurm plant.

In Austria, the company has a can factory in Enzesfeld, Lower Austria . The plant was built in 1983 by the then Vereinigte Metallwerke Ranshofen-Berndorf (VMW) and initially bought by Rexam in 2000 before it was finally integrated into the Ardagh Group on July 1, 2016. In 24-hour shifts, 150 employees produce around 1.5 billion aluminum cans for soft and energy drinks as well as beer in sizes of 0.25 and 0.5 liters - an average of 50 cans per second.

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ CEO Ian Curley leaves Ardagh Group. In: euwid-verpackung.de. October 6, 2017, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Annual Report For the year ended 31 December 2017 (PDF)
  4. ↑ a b c Ardagh Group - Locations (accessed May 27, 2017)
  5. ↑ Ardagh purchases 22 Ball and Rexam beverage can plants for $ 3.4 billion . packaktuell.ch, April 26, 2016; accessed on May 27, 2017
  6. ↑ EU approves Ball and Rexam deal subject to 12 plant divestment . bakeryandsnacks.com, June 15, 2016; accessed on May 27, 2017
  7. ↑ Beck's without glass . taz.de, October 15, 2002; accessed on May 27, 2017
  8. ↑ Glass has been made in Nienburg for 125 years . Kreiszeitung.de, February 19, 2016; accessed on May 27, 2017
  9. ↑ Ball Packaging - Company History (accessed May 27, 2017)
  10. ↑ Now fix: Can factory in Enzesfeld . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 15, 1981, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  11. ^ Ardagh Metal Beverage Manufacturing Austria GmbH. triestingtal.at; accessed on May 27, 2017
  12. ↑ For liquid can production. automation.at, September 24, 2014.