RUAG

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RUAG Holding AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 1998
Seat Bern , SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
management Remo Lütolf
( Chairman of the Board of Directors )
Urs Kiener
( CEO )
Number of employees 9 091 (2019)
sales 2.003 billion CHF (2019)
Branch Aerospace engineering and defense industry
Website www.ruag.com
As of December 31, 2016

The RUAG Holding AG is a Swiss technology group based in Bern operates, mainly in the markets of aerospace, defense and security with civil and government customers worldwide. It combines the former arms companies of the federal government in a private stock corporation , the shares of which are wholly owned by the Swiss Confederation.

Locations

RUAG has the following production facilities:

There are also other RUAG locations in Belgium , Brazil , England , Finland , France , Malaysia , Austria , the UAE and the USA .

history

The directors

RUAG emerged from the former maintenance and production operations of the Swiss Army . Due to the neutrality of Switzerland and the acute danger of not being able to procure armaments abroad during times of tension, Switzerland has built up its own industrial base for the army since 1863. These were the Eidgenössische Munitionsfabrik Thun and Eidgenössische Munitionsfabrik Altdorf , the Eidgenössische Waffenfabrik Bern, the Eidgenössische Konstruktionswerkstätte in Thun, from 1943 the Eidgenössische Flugzeugwerk in Emmen, the powder factories Wimmis and Aubonne as well as other companies subordinate to the military department.

RUAG founded in 1998

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Iron Curtain led to the army reform " Army 95 " in Switzerland, with fewer teams, and the budget of the Federal Military Department (EMD) was significantly reduced. This was also felt by the industrial companies of the “Armaments Group” of the EMD, where the volume of orders was steadily falling. In the message of April 16, 1997 on a “Federal Law on the Federal Defense Companies” (BGRB), the then EMD board member, Federal Councilor Adolf Ogi , presented a draft law that essentially involves the spin-off and conversion of dependent public-law federal companies into private corporations should allow. The matter was dealt with in the National Council on June 19, 1997, in the Council of States on September 29, 1997, and finally approved by both chambers on October 10, 1997 in the final vote. After the deadline had expired without the optional referendum on 29 January 1998, the BGRB entered into force on 1 May 1998, bringing the project " R üstungs U nternehmen- A ktien G ompany" (RUAG) was tackled.

The company was registered on May 27, 1998 under the name RUAG Schweiz AG in the Bern-Mittelland commercial register. From the EMD, which had been renamed the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport (VBS) on January 1, 1998 , four production units were formed and outsourced and converted into stock corporations:

  • SE Swiss electronics company AG (Bern)
  • SF Swiss company for aircraft and systems AG (Emmen)
  • SW Swiss company for weapons systems AG (Thun)
  • SM Schweizerische Munitionsunternehmung AG (Thun)

The four operational armaments companies were taken over by RUAG Schweiz AG with their publication in the commercial register on July 2, 1999, with retroactive effect from January 1. In May 2001, RUAG Schweiz AG received its current name, RUAG Holding AG, and for the first time a new corporate structure in which the SE became RUAG Electronics , SF became RUAG Aerospace , SW became RUAG Land Systems and SM became RUAG Munition .

The development of the group until today

In 2003, RUAG took over the civil and military support area of ​​the former Dornier Luftfahrt GmbH in Oberpfaffenhofen . As RUAG Aerospace Services , it looks after the German Armed Forces' Bell UH-1 D helicopter model and produces the twin-engine turboprop aircraft Dornier Do 228 NG . In the RUAG Technology Structures division, various structural assemblies are manufactured , primarily for the Airbus A320 commercial aircraft .

In 2008 RUAG took over the space division Saab Space and the Austrian subsidiary Austrian Aerospace from the Swedish Saab group, and in 2009 Oerlikon Space from OC Oerlikon . They then operated under the names RUAG Space AB (Sweden) or RUAG Space GmbH (Austria) or RUAG Space as part of RUAG Schweiz AG (Switzerland). In 2013, the metalworking and surface processing areas that were not absolutely necessary for the main tasks were sold and the division was renamed RUAG Aerostructures.

RUAG Defense emerged from the merger of the previous Land Systems and Electronics divisions. In March 2012, Ascom took over Defense Communication. In autumn 2013, RUAG took over the French GAVAP and added it to the Training and Simulation division of RUAG Defense.

Corporate structure

The RUAG Holding is the parent company of RUAG subsidiaries in Germany and abroad. The group is mainly active in the two market segments aerospace and defense, whereby other markets are always served with technologically derived products and services.

"Aerospace" market segment

Dornier Do 228 NG produced by RUAG Aviation at ILA  2012
RUAG Ranger ADS-95 drone produced by RUAG Aviation
Double AMRAAM turret produced by RUAG Aviation on the F / A-18 J-5011
  • RUAG Space for space travel , research and development.
    Around 1,350 people are employed in this area at locations in Switzerland, Sweden, the USA, Finland, Germany and Austria. Satellite structures, carrier structures and separation mechanisms, electronics for carrier systems and satellites, communication systems and instruments are produced. Activities include all important aspects of space projects from mission analysis to systems engineering, including entire satellite projects, project management, engineering services, assembly and testing of systems, as well as support and tests at the launch site.
  • RUAG Aviation for aviation , research and development and maintenance .
    The "Aviation" division carries out modernization and maintenance work on civil and military aircraft and helicopters. This also includes work on engines and avionics as well as military systems. In the “Research” sub-area, which maintains several wind tunnels, new types of components are developed and tested. The Dornier Do 228 NG aircraft, which is capable of short take-off and landing , was developed from the Do 228 and is marketed worldwide.
In Alpnach, RUAG maintains helicopter types Aérospatiale AS 332 Super Puma / Cougar and Eurocopter EC635 from various domestic and foreign users.
In Emmen, RUAG is carrying out maintenance work on the ADS-95 , Northrop F-5 and McDonnell Douglas F / A-18 drones of the Swiss Air Force . 32 of the 34 F / A-18s of the Swiss Air Force were built by RUAG.
In Dübendorf, RUAG maintains the Air Force's FLORAKO air surveillance system .
The company is now active in ten locations in Switzerland, seven of the following airports are: Emmen airbase , military airfield Alpnach , Buochs , Dübendorf Air Base , Interlaken airfield , lodrino air base and airfield St. Gallen-Altenrhein and two in Germany and one each in Australia, Brazil and Malaysia. This division emerged from the Federal Aircraft Plant (F + W) and the acquisition of the former Dornier parent plant in Oberpfaffenhofen and the Australian Rosebank Engineering.
  • RUAG Aerostructures for aircraft structural engineering as well as for specialized machining, forming, surface, assembly and environmental technology.
    It develops, produces and integrates mainly structural assemblies and precision components using the latest technologies in the fields of composites, sheet metal and metal processing and assembly for the aerospace industry as well as for the machine industry. The main customers are the major aircraft manufacturers .

"Defense" market segment

  • RUAG Defense has various locations in Switzerland, Germany and France. The main competence today includes the maintenance, repair and increase in value of heavy weapon systems, protection solutions for armored vehicles, robotic systems, logistics solutions, virtual and live simulation systems as well as the integration, manufacture, maintenance and operation of electronic command, communication and radar - and reconnaissance systems of military and civil organizations. For combat and support vehicles, she mainly looks after military land vehicles such as the M113 , M109 KAWEST self-propelled howitzer , the Spz 2000 of the Swiss Army and the Leopard 2 .
    On behalf of the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS), RUAG Defense's liquidation department sells and liquidates military equipment and vehicles of the Swiss Army that are no longer required. For this purpose, RUAG operates two “ArmyLiqShops” and one “ArmyTechShop”. The Kodiak (tank) was developed together with Rheinmetall .
    The RUAG Cobra is a 120 mm mortar system developed by RUAG .
  • RUAG Ammotec produces small-caliber ammunition up to 12.7 mm and other pyrotechnic industrial products. In addition to ammunition for authorities, the well-known brands such as RWS (rifle cartridges and air rifle ammunition), Rottweil ( shot ), Norma Precision (rifle cartridges) and Geco (rifle and handgun cartridges) are also produced and marketedin the hunting and sport sector. Other products are used in fastening technology, the automotive industry and power distribution, among others.
    In 2002 Ammotec was created by taking over the small-caliber ammunition production from Dynamit Nobel and merging it with the Swiss production facilities of RUAG. As a result, other companies were added; today Ammotec has production sites in Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Hungary and the USA, as well as other sales offices.

Web links

Commons : RUAG  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CEO Urs Breitmeier to leave RUAG. ( Memento from January 9, 2020 in the Internet Archive ) Press release from January 7, 2020.
  2. ^ Sale to Berghoff Group ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Press release from April 5, 2013.
  3. ↑ RUAG invests in the French partner company GAVAP ( Memento of December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Press release of November 6, 2013.
  4. ^ Annual report of RUAG Holding AG, 2017. Accessed on October 19, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Austrian know-how protects “Rosetta”, ORF.at, November 5, 2014 - insulating skin of the Rosetta probe from RUAG
  6. ↑ Sale of army supplies
  7. ↑ RWS means Rheinisch-Westfälische Sprengstoff-Fabriken AG, a group whose products have been integrated by RUAG. See Philippe Peseux: Connaître les armes et les munitions. Publibook, 2013, ISBN 978-2-342-00394-9 . List of abbreviations p. 408 and the ammunition listed in the book with this abbreviation (three positions)

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