BOA Group
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| legal form | GmbH |
| Seat |
Vienna , Austria
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| management | Sophie Burghart, Ralph-Leo Lanckohr |
| Branch | Metal processing |
| Website | www.boagroup.com |
The BOA Group is a global group of companies. It develops, produces and sells flexible stainless steel components for engine management, exhaust systems and ancillary units in motor vehicles worldwide. For industrial applications, the BOA Group supplies high-density and flexible metal bellows , expansion joints and metal hoses for applications in energy technology and plant construction , as well as for rail vehicles, shipbuilding, aerospace, vacuum, measurement and control technology and fittings. The products of the BOA Group transport liquid and gaseous media, control movements, compensate mechanical vibrations and compensate for thermal expansion.
history
On October 25, 1872, the Henri Ehrmann & Co. metal cartridge factory was founded in Karlsruhe. In 1898 the company received a patent for "flexible metal tubes with bulbous folds". In August 1949 it was renamed Industriewerke Karlsruhe AG (IWK). In the course of the 1970 merger of the company with Keller & Knappich in Augsburg, the name was changed to “Industriewerke Karlsruhe Augsburg (IWKA)”. On April 1st, 1980 the IWK Regulator und Kompensatoren GmbH was founded and its production facility relocated to Stutensee-Blankenloch near Karlsruhe. In 1989 Tubest (France), a manufacturer of flexible metal hoses, and SFZ, Chassieu (France), a manufacturer of expansion joints, were taken over. In 1990, the takeover of BOA in Rothenburg (Switzerland) followed with all subsidiaries and associated companies. In 2006, IWKA AG (Holding) sold IWKA BKT GmbH with all its subsidiaries and associated companies to the financial investor Odewald & Compagnie . IWKA BKT changed its name to BOA BKT and founded BOA Holding as a holding company for the entire BOA Group. In 2008 BOA (Shanghai) Bellows Technology Co., Ltd. founded. In 2010 Odewald sold the company to a new financial investor, AEA Investors . In 2014 BOA RBT SRL was founded in Arad / Romania.
Ring International Holding AG has been the new owner of the BOA Group since the end of 2018.
Corporate structure
The BOA Group's management company is BOA Metal Solutions GmbH in Stutensee / Germany. The BOA Group includes:
- American BOA Inc./USA
- BOA AG / Switzerland
- BOA Italia SrL / Italy
- BOA RBT SRL / Romania
- BOA (Shanghai) Bellows Technology Co. Ltd./China
- BBA Kompenzátory spol. sro / Czech Republic
Fields of activity
Automotive
The automotive sector includes products for cars, trucks, buses, agricultural machinery and other commercial vehicles equipped with combustion engines.
- flexible exhaust gas recirculation and oil return lines made of stainless steel
- Stainless steel bellows and hoses for exhaust systems
- Stainless steel hoses for fuel lines and air conditioning
energy
Products for generating electricity and heat or for the production and distribution of gases are offered:
- Stainless steel bellows for high voltage switchgear
- Hoses and expansion joints for heating, ventilation and air conditioning technology
- Stainless steel hoses for the production and distribution of natural gas and industrial gases
The BOA Group is active in the areas of energy distribution, electrical engineering, gas production, gas turbines, gas distribution, solar technology, boiler technology, fuel cells and heating / ventilation / air conditioning.
Industry
BOA Group products include: B .:
- Stainless steel expansion joints and exhaust systems for large diesel engines
- Stainless steel bellows and hoses in vacuum technology
- Stainless steel bellows as sealing elements in shut-off valves
The BOA Group manufactures both hydraulically formed stainless steel bellows and welded membrane bellows.
Plant construction
- Expansion joints in chemical plants
- Hoses and expansion joints for shipbuilding and shipyards
- Expansion joints and bellows for power plants
The BOA Group supplies products for chemical plants and refineries, for pipeline construction, apparatus and container construction, gas tankers and shipyards, for power plants and steelworks.