BMZ (company)
| BMZ Batteries-Montage-Zentrum GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| Seat | Karlstein am Main , Germany |
| management | Sven Bauer |
| Number of employees | 3,000 |
| sales | EUR 309.0 million (2017) |
| Branch | Electrical engineering |
| Website | www.bmz-group.com |
The BMZ Group (Batteries Assembly Center), headquartered in Karlstein am Main, is a German company that manufactures battery systems for automotive, e-mobility, storage, medical and industrial applications, as well as power and garden tools. It was founded in 1994 and, according to its own information, had around 3,000 employees worldwide in 2018. The focus of production is in Germany.
history
The company was taken over in 1994 by Sven Bauer, Claudia Reimer and Thorsten Gotthardt through a management buy-out , as Saft GmbH parted with its accumulator division. In the early years the company dealt with the conversion of orders with its twelve employees.
In August 2008, a production and storage hall burned down. The reason for this was a technical defect. Around 200 firefighters only managed to put out the fire after several hours. The company suffered a loss of 17 million euros.
Reconstruction began almost a year after the fire. 1800 m² of storage and production space and 1400 m² of office space were created on the BMZ site. Together with the existing building, around 6000 m² of usable space was available after completion of the new buildings.
The BMZ Group is now represented worldwide and has increased the production area to 34,000 m² (as of 2016).
Corporate structure
The BMZ Group consists of the following companies and is the largest producer of accumulators in Europe: (as of 2018)
- BMZ GmbH, Karlstein, Germany (75,000 m² production area)
- BMZ Poland Sp. Zoo, Gliwice, Poland (76,000 m² production area)
- BMZ Company Ltd, Shenzhen, China (50,000 m² production area)
- BMZ USA Inc, Virginia Beach, USA (10,000 m² production area)
- BMZ France SARL, Paris, France
- BMZ Japan KK, Saitama, Japan
Web links
- BMZ GROUP website
- Canned Energy , Manager Magazin, October 19, 2012, accessed on May 6, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to the Federal Gazette , annual financial statements as of December 31, 2017
- ↑ Facts & Figures BMZ Group (2016). Retrieved July 1, 2017 .
- ↑ BMZ burned down: damage worth millions - Halle is being demolished , Main network, August 22, 2008, accessed on May 6, 2015
- ↑ BMZ Poland moves 650 employees into a new company building in Gliwice. Retrieved July 6, 2017 .
- ↑ BMZ GmbH builds Europe's Gigafactory. Retrieved May 13, 2016 .